Twinings

Financial Controller

Twinings  •  Andover, GB (Onsite)  •  7 days ago
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Job Description

Financial Controller

Application Deadline: 31 May 2026

Department: BizTX

Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time

Location: Andover


Great People Work Here

BizTX: Co-Creating WOW Through Digital Innovation


It’s an exciting time to be part of BizTX at Twinings Ovaltine. At the heart of this iconic brand, we’re on a mission to drive exponential growth and productivity through cutting-edge technology to transform the business globally.

We’re not here to simply provide IT services. We’re technology leaders and strategic partners, co-creating innovative solutions that help the business run, grow, and transform. Everything we do is guided by our commitment to ‘WOW’ our consumers, customers and colleagues. WOW experiences, WOW solutions, and WOW impact.

Our people think differently. We have an exponential mindset that helps us push boundaries and shape what’s next. The future at Twinings Ovaltine is full of possibility and we’d love you to be a part of it.

Note: This is 6-12 Months FTC role.

Role Purpose

Finance Controller responsible for stabilizing daily finance operations for BizTX, implementing robust financial processes, and delivering accurate, timely reporting. The role combines operational controllership with clean-up and remediation projects to put BizTX on a stable financial footing.

Key Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day financial control, ensuring suppliers are paid accurately and on time via the Shared Service Centre (Poland)
  • Manage and control PO creation, commitments, and invoice validation (no PO, no pay)
  • Ensure costs are correctly recharged to business units in line with agreed models
  • Own the month-end close: accruals, journals, reconciliations, and timetable discipline
  • Produce monthly reporting, variance analysis, and clear financial commentary
  • Support budgeting and forecasting with accurate actuals and spend visibility
  • Act as key finance interface with Shared Services, improving end-to-end P2P and close processes
  • Manage finance clean-up projects: clearing historic balances, improving data quality, fixing broken processes.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

  • Qualified or part-qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / CIMA or equivalent experience)
  • Extensive controllership experience, including month-end close, accounts payable, purchase orders, and recharges
  • Experience working with shared service centres
  • Advanced spreadsheet proficiency and solid financial reporting skills
  • Pragmatic, delivery-focused, comfortable in a contractor / change environment

Benefits

  • Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
  • Flexible working options
  • 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
  • Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre
  • Perkbox – employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
  • Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • SimplyHealth Cash plan
  • Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning
  • Access to ABF Networking, connect, collaborate, and grow across the ABF Group.
Twinings

About Twinings

Explore over 300 years of Twinings’ innovation, creativity and masterblending expertise. For us, tea is more than just a drink. It's been part of our daily lives and the lives of generations of tea lovers.

Our drinks energise, refresh and comfort. And we're constantly innovating. We invent, we collaborate, we challenge, we question, we achieve. But we're also rigorous and disciplined in transforming our ideas into reality. This has enabled us to compete on an international scale and enjoy strong, sustainable growth through an exciting range of beverage brands.

If you want your career to flourish in a successful international business that does things a bit differently, you have come to the right place. For a company so steeped in heritage, you’ll find our approach to work refreshingly forward-looking. We have a strong set of values that guide our actions, we share a strong desire to grow our business and to be successful and never let politics, process or hierarchy get in our way.

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Hampshire, GB
Year Founded
1706
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