Overview
Head of Financial Control – AB Neo – Home Based, Europe
Job Title: Head of Financial Control
Location: Europe (hybrid with travel to sites)
Do you have experience of standardising financial controls? Do you understand statutory reporting and legal requirements across multiple countries? Do you enjoy problem solving and implementing positive change?
We are recruiting a Head of Financial Control within our AB Neo business, responsible for leading financial control efforts, including standardising how the company manages audits, balance sheet reconciliations, and statutory requirements across different countries. This position has been strategically designed to standardise the financial processes across multiple European sites (UK, Spain, Poland and Denmark) with a key focus on all accounting, control, statutory reporting, risk management and audit activities across our global accounting teams.
We are seeking a leader who is able to implement positive change, streamline processes and build relationships across the wider ABF and AB Agri business groups in order to understand processes and ways of working, along with gaining an understanding culturally.
What you’ll be doing:
Financial Leadership & Control
- Ensure a robust financial control environment, including compliance with internal controls, ABC (Anti-Bribery and Corruption) policies, Transfer Pricing, and risk documentation.
- Oversee accurate and timely financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and cashflow submissions in alignment with group standards and deadlines.
- Manage financial processes across ERP systems, standardise controls, and ensure best practices are applied consistently across regions.
Team Development & Operational Management
- Manage, develop, and support a skilled finance team across Europe, creating a positive, customer-focused culture.
- Provide direction and ensure compliance with all regional financial, tax, and reporting requirements.
Audit, Compliance & Governance
- Own relationships with internal and external auditors, ensuring timely resolution of issues and effective audit readiness.
- Maintain and test the Business Continuity Plan, ensuring operational resilience.
Strategic Initiatives & Projects
- Implement continuous improvement in finance processes, systems, and controls to enhance efficiency and compliance.
- Support M&A activities, including due diligence and integration, and contribute to other strategic, business-critical projects.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Build effective relationships with internal stakeholders, including Group Tax, Treasury, and Reporting, ensuring alignment and collaboration across functions.
What you’ll bring:
- Good critical thinking, adept at navigating complex issues and ambiguity
- Ability to effectively manage risk and communicates this with senior management
- Qualified finance professional, ACA, ACCA or similar
- Advanced knowledge of accounting principles, processes and procedures.
- Robust understanding of accounting and tax regulations
- Advanced financial modelling skills
- Fluent written and spoken English
Location: this position can be based in either UK, Spain, Poland or Denmark with travel required between the sites.
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.
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.
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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
