Overview
Head of Group Controls and Non-Financial Reporting – Peterborough
Job Title: Head of Group Controls and Non-Financial Reporting
Contract: 12 months Fixed Term (maternity cover)
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid working)
Package includes: Salary from £60,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, private healthcare and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%
This role is your opportunity to step into a key finance position where you can shape and improve controls across a growing agribusiness. It involves developing and implementing processes for increasing non-financial reporting requirements, overseeing group controls, financial control compliance, and supporting the Group Financial Controller.
The Central Finance team are practical, pragmatic, and supportive. Imagine yourself implementing meaningful changes, enhancing processes while growing your career in a flexible, supportive environment! You’ll join a team that values your voice, supports your growth, and offers a flexible working environment where your contributions help shape a sustainable future for food production.
The difference you can make:
This is the perfect time to join as you’ll be at the forefront of shaping financial controls and non-financial reporting processes during a period of growth and acquisitions. You’ll manage initiatives like implementing group-wide credit card and expense policies, and support embedding finance’s role in non-financial reporting to ensure data accuracy and compliance, making a tangible difference across all AB Agri entities.
What you’ll be doing:
- Engaging with senior stakeholders across business units to develop and align financial policies such as credit card, expense policies, and approval limits.
- Supporting AB Agri businesses in ensuring compliance, addressing internal audit points, and conducting control reviews on acquisitions.
- Developing and implementing processes for non-financial data review, approval, and reporting to ensure accuracy and compliance.
- Treasury support: assisting the banking team with treasury activities and control requirements.
- Ad hoc project support, providing assistance to the Group Financial Controller with various projects and queries as needed.
What you’ll bring:
- Qualified finance professional with substantial post-qualified experience.
- Audit experience to assess and improve financial controls.
- Attention to detail to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Communication skills to build relationships and collaborate with senior stakeholders to effectively implement policies and controls.
- Organisational skills to manage multiple projects and ad hoc queries in order to support the Group Financial Controller efficiently.
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Where growth meets purpose
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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
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.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, 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 Agri, part 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.
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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