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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 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.
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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.
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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
- 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 has become one of the world’s most renowned tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We take pride in our tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century.
More than 300 years later, the love of tea is still here - and so are we! We still sell tea from Thomas’s shop, and we still work hard to bring the most innovative new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before.
Our approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At TwiningsOvo, we believe in the power of diversity to drive innovation and meaningful work. We are committed to building a workplace where people from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences feel safe, valued, have a sense of belonging and are empowered to thrive. Inclusion is more than a goal, it’s how we work together every day. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against an applicant on the basis of their ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, neurodiversity, age, socioeconomic background or any other status protected by law and are committed to promoting diversity across our workplace.
Applicants may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are typically done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity.
Please inform our Talent Acquisition or HR Shared Services team if you need any assistance completing your application or to otherwise participate in the application process.
