The Finance Head of Internal Controls at Refresco is a key role within our organisation responsible for ensuring the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of the company's financial reporting. This role focuses on developing, implementing, and monitoring internal controls to mitigate risks, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, and enhance operational efficiency.

Head of Internal Controls - Finance

Refresco UK - Kegworth, Derbyshire (just off J24 of the M1)

What’s in it for you?

• 15% Annual bonus
• Health Care plan for you and your family
• 8% pension
• Life assurance (X4 annual salary)
• 27 days plus bank holidays holiday allowance
• Purchase extra holiday scheme
• Access to employee benefits platform – Cheers which includes salary sacrifice benefits.

About the Role

You will report directly to and work closely with the Finance Director, making sure the designed internal controls solutions, tools and processes are implemented effectively and deliver the intended results. You will identify gaps in the control process, fixing and improving them and also support continuous improvement projects with the aim of building a highly efficient and well controlled finance agenda.

You are, or have been, in a similar role, so you probably know what is involved, but to be transparent, here are some of your key tasks and responsibilities as Internal Control & Projects Manager in the Finance team here at Refresco:

• Overall responsibility for maintaining the Internal Controls framework in line with SOX and group requirements including tools. solutions, templates, training, testing, reporting.
• Implementing internal financial control policies in accordance with the company internal control framework.
• Ensure that processes are in place so that control owners can demonstrate the operation and effectiveness of key controls.
• Manage finance continuous improvement projects from time to time.
• Develop internal control awareness at Refresco UK and increase internal control awareness in the senior management team.
• Coordinating the evaluation and testing of internal control effectiveness.

About You

Ultimately, we encourage everyone to role model our core values of agility, responsibility, passion, excellence, and entrepreneurship as we believe these are what has made Refresco successful so far. For this role we are seeking the ideal candidate to match the following:

• You will be leading (or have previously led) an Audit or Risk & Controls team or you may be a senior team member in such teams and you are looking for a broader challenge or a career step up.
• Your experience has been gained preferably in an Audit Firm or FMCG or related industry sector environment.
• You have solid financial and management accounting experience, preferably spanning across corporate functions and business units, delivering audits, reporting, analysis and business improvement.
• You will need in depth knowledge of Sarbanes Oxley (SOX).
• You will require strong Risk & Controls experience gained in a financial management, internal controls and accounting environment.
• You will need good Project Management and presentation skills.
• You preferably have SAP FICO knowledge.
• You have real passion for what you do, inspire others around you, you don’t need anyone to motivate you and you enjoy working autonomously.
• You use your excellent communicate skills to influence others and you are confident making internal and external presentations.

About Refresco:

Refresco is the global independent beverage solutions provider for Global, National and Emerging brands, and retailers with production in Europe, North America, and Australia. Refresco offers an extensive range of product and packaging combinations from juices to carbonated soft drinks and mineral waters in carton, PET, Aseptic PET, cans, and glass. Refresco continuously searches for new and alternative ways to improve the quality of its products and packaging combinations in line with consumer and customer demand, environmental responsibilities, and market demand

Refresco is headquartered in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and has more than 13,500 employees. (url removed).

Our drinks on every table. That's the Refresco vision. We’re a global business and currently produce 12 billion litres of soft drinks from 64 manufacturing plants in 12 countries and we’re only just getting started.

We’re the proud owners of six drinks manufacturing sites within the UK. Our UK business provides a great place to work for over 1,800 employees, who produce private label soft drinks and fruit juices for all the leading retailers.

Whether it’s packed in cartons, bottles or cans, we ensure that our products are made to the highest quality standards. Our products get where they need to be when they need to get there to meet the needs of our high-profile customers.

Refresco believes that equal opportunity for all is fundamental to our company's values and all our applicants can expect fairness and transparency in our recruitment process.

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