The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job title: Finance Manager
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid)
Package includes: Salary from £52,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.
Are you a qualified finance professional with a passion for delivering accurate reporting, controls, and continuous improvement? Do you enjoy working across entities and teams to enhance financial systems and processes that support global business growth?
Our Finance team is looking for a skilled Finance Manager to lead our UK finance operations. In this pivotal role, you’ll be responsible for all reporting and compliance activities for AB Vista UK, ensuring month-end excellence, audit readiness, and control improvements while supporting wider transformation initiatives. With autonomy and a collaborative working environment, this is your chance to ensure the stability and accuracy of UK finance within a global organisation.
What you'll be doing:
* Managing month-end close processes including journal postings, FX revaluations, and intercompany eliminations across multiple UK entities
* Ensuring timely and accurate P&L and balance sheet reporting, including payroll accruals, recharges, and fixed asset adjustments
* Managing UK budgeting and forecasting submissions and supporting planning cycles
* Overseeing compliance with internal and external audit requirements, ensuring timely resolution of actions
* Improvements to finance processes, system controls, and data integrity—particularly around Microsoft Dynamics 365 and compliance tools
* Administering regulatory submissions, including tax, insurance, SOX, and ABC reporting
* Supporting group finance transformation projects and standardising processes across AB Vista and the wider AB Agri group
* Leading and mentoring one direct report, while supporting a network of regional finance contributors
What you'll bring:
* Certified accountant (ACCA, ACA, CIMA, or equivalent) with substantial post-qualification experience
* Solid technical knowledge of financial reporting (IFRS), consolidations, reconciliations, and audit processes
* Demonstrated ability to manage financial operations across multiple entities and currencies
* Advanced Excel and financial systems skills, with experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and/or Power BI
* Strong attention to detail and time management, with a continuous improvement mindset
* Skilled communicator with the ability to collaborate across teams, regions, and functions
* Experience managing or mentoring others, or a clear willingness to develop leadership capabilities
* Structured thinking and adaptability to succeed in an environment driven by consistent global changes and diverse tasks
Location
Hybrid, a mix of office and homeworking. This role will be based at our Peterborough offices on the Lynchwood Business Park. The office has recently been renovated and along with a modern work environment has great public transport links, free onsite parking, free drink facilities, free lunch option each day and a great team culture. Please note, this role may require occasional travel to AB Agri sites in the UK and overseas.
About The Company
We’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators.
When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.
About us
We’re AB Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them
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