Job Title: Group Reporting and Central Costs Manager
Location: Peterborough (Hybrid working option 2-3 days office based)
Contract: Full time, permanent
Package Includes: Salary starting from £60,000 per annum, plus pension contributions matched up to 10% and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.
Are you an experienced accountant looking to broaden your exposure across group reporting, consolidation and central cost management? Do you enjoy bringing clarity to complex reporting cycles and working with stakeholders across a large group environment? Are you ready for a role that combines technical reporting ownership with the opportunity to support and develop others?
We’re looking for a Group Reporting and Central Cost Manager to join our finance team. This is a broad role combining central cost reporting with group reporting and consolidation, offering exposure across a large group environment. This is a great opportunity for an accountant who wants to broaden their group reporting exposure and develop their people management experience.
What you’ll be doing:
- Managing monthly reporting for central costs, including month-end reporting, financial accounting and related analysis.
- Supporting monthly group consolidation activity ensuring results are analysed, reviewed and shared with relevant stakeholders.
- Prepare statutory accounts, support tax computations, manage VAT reporting and coordinate Group tax and statutory returns, including PSA and ONS reporting.
- Working with business units, ABF and business performance teams to follow up on reporting queries, particularly around balance sheet areas.
- Supporting the preparation of group reporting outputs, including consolidated results and related schedules.
- Helping to provide clarity, accountability and effective communication across reporting lines.
- Managing, supporting and developing two team members.
- Supporting hedge accounting activity where required, working with available group support functions.
- Ensuring reporting deadlines are met and working relationships are built across a group environment.
- Supporting compliance with financial control frameworks where relevant to the role.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience in management reporting, month-end reporting and financial accounting.
- Experience in group reporting, consolidation or working within a large group environment.
- Stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate input and resolve queries across multiple teams and business units.
- A continuous improvement and control-focused mindset.
- Good communication skills and the confidence to work with stakeholders across finance, business performance and wider group teams.
- The ability to manage reporting deadlines and work effectively in a structured monthly reporting cycle.
- Previous experience of various ERP systems, including different versions of MS Dynamics
- Experience managing or supporting a team would be beneficial, but we’re also open to someone ready to take that next step.
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.
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.
