IPL Schoeller

Controller

• Manage credit control and accounts receivable activities across the European business
• Partner with Lead Credit Controllers across France, Spain, Italy, Poland, DACH, Benelux, and North East Europe to drive credit performance and improve cash collection
• Review and approve credit applications, credit limits, payment plans, bad debt provisions, and write-offs
• Act as the escalation point for complex credit, collections, and customer account issues
• Monitor aged debt and accounts receivable performance, ensuring timely collection of outstanding balances
• Build relationships with customers, commercial teams, finance colleagues, and key stakeholders to resolve payment issues and mitigate risk
• Oversee account reconciliations, month-end activities, reporting, cash forecasting, and audit support
• Manage third-party credit information providers and maintain credit limits within IFS
• Maximise utilisation of Group securitisation facilities and liaise between Treasury, banking partners, and regional credit teams
• Prepare and maintain credit control metrics and reports
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance processes, controls, and operational efficiency
• Ensure compliance with company policies, financial controls, and confidentiality requirements

Credit Controller, European

Operations

• Lead and develop manufacturing operations across multiple sites in the UK, Belgium and Switzerland
• Provide strategic and operational leadership to plant management teams
• Drive continuous improvement and standardisation across operations
• Ensure safe, efficient and high-performing operations delivering quality products and excellent customer service
• Deliver operational and financial performance against budgets, forecasts, targets and business plans
• Establish and monitor KPIs covering safety, quality, productivity, efficiency, delivery, waste, downtime and cost
• Drive Lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, standard work, root-cause analysis and structured problem-solving
• Plan production capacity, labour, equipment and resources
• Standardise processes, systems and best practices across sites
• Improve asset reliability, equipment effectiveness, automation and preventative maintenance
• Ensure compliance with health and safety, environmental, quality, employment and regulatory requirements
• Champion safety culture and manage risks, incidents, near misses and corrective actions
• Maintain product quality, customer satisfaction and compliance with ISO, food safety and customer standards
• Collaborate with supply chain and procurement on planning, inventory, materials and delivery
• Support capital investment plans, equipment upgrades, automation projects and site improvements
• Lead operational transformation and change programmes
• Improve energy efficiency, reduce waste and support environmental and sustainability objectives
• Ensure succession planning, talent development and workforce engagement
• Provide performance updates, risks, opportunities and recommendations to senior leadership
• Travel regularly between sites in the UK, Belgium and Switzerland, with additional travel as required

Operations Director – UK, Belgium, Switzerland

Payroll

• Manage end-to-end payroll processing
• Ensure compliance with payroll legislation, tax regulations, and statutory requirements
• Oversee payroll audits, statutory reporting, and year-end activities
• Maintain payroll controls and governance processes
• Lead payroll system upgrades, migrations, and integrations
• Collaborate with HR, Finance, IT, and external vendors to ensure system performance and data accuracy
• Identify opportunities for automation, standardisation, and process optimisation
• Develop scalable payroll processes supporting business growth
• Define and monitor payroll service levels and key performance indicators
• Analyse payroll data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Produce and present payroll performance reports to senior stakeholders
• Support data-driven decision-making through payroll insights
• Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Manage third-party payroll providers and service level agreements
• Act as payroll subject matter expert on cross-functional projects and initiatives

Payroll Manager – 6 Month Contract

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Coordinate and manage the overall monthly business performance report for submission to Divisional and Group Management
• Coordinate the annual budget across 8 plants in the division
• Collaborate with functional business leads to prepare financial projections for business and strategic plans
• Organise and lead management teams in preparing, presenting, and delivering performance against budgets and plans
• Lead divisional financial business planning for quarterly forecasts and annual budgets
• Model and prepare projected labour, overhead, and SG&A spending needs with plant management and department heads
• Drive divisional performance through continuous improvement of the FP&A function
• Lead weekly revenue, volume, and EBITDA forecasting, tracking variances and recommending corrective actions
• Perform variance analysis on sales, gross margin, costs, and profitability with the Commercial Finance Director
• Implement corrective actions with local plant finance and management teams
• Own and refine the cost savings initiative framework
• Participate in group finance leadership and help shape and implement finance strategy
• Handle ad-hoc requests supporting the division as directed by the VP of Finance
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to maintain subsidiaries’ capital structures in line with business, tax, and regulatory requirements
• Coach and develop direct reports and manage high-performing teams
• Ensure strong communication between leadership teams to implement change and improvements
• Complete performance reviews and manage attendance, disciplinary issues, and procedures as appropriate

Credit Controller, European

Operations Director – UK, Belgium, Switzerland

Payroll Manager – 6 Month Contract

FP&A Director