Business Controller

Join us and take your career to the next level

Are you a seasoned finance leader ready to drive strategic growth and ensure operational excellence? Kalmar is seeking a dynamic Business Controller to lead all accounting, reporting, and financial strategy for our vital UK and Ireland markets. This is your chance to be a key decision-maker, partnering directly with sales and service to fuel our success.

This role operates on a hybrid work model, ideal for candidates living within commuting distance of our Shrewsbury office.

What are your key responsibilities:

• Strategic Financial Partnership: Act as a core finance business partner to the Country Director and Management Team, deeply integrating finance into all business operations and strategic decision-making for UK & Ireland.
• Performance Reporting & Analysis: Provide critical financial information, business reviews, and analyses to the Country Management Team, driving accurate forecasting, budgeting, and planning, while challenging performance for optimal results.
• Lead Financial Planning & Estimates: Drive the preparation of financial plans, future business estimates, budgets, and overall financial strategy, ensuring alignment with Kalmar's targets and guidelines.
• Country Management Team Membership: Serve as an active member of the country management team, taking full responsibility for the finance function and contributing to overall business direction.
• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, manage, and coach finance team members, overseeing performance reviews, talent identification, and succession planning.
• Ensure Operational & Policy Compliance: Implement and ensure adherence to all Group, division, and local financial policies, procedures, and tools, guaranteeing high-quality support and robust controls across sales and service administration.

What we offer you:

"Respect is how we work — across departments, across borders, across job titles."

• Rewards that truly count: Enjoy a salary package that reflects your expertise, plus fantastic benefits including a salary-sacrifice pension, car allowance, life assurance and retail savings, and discounts.
• Safety that moves us forward: Build your career with a company rooted in safety since the 1940s, ensuring stability and an environment that empowers you to speak and be heard.
• Work-life balance: You’ll receive 33 days of annual leave (including bank holidays), with the option to purchase extra days and additional days for long service, through a working model that empowers you to balance professional and personal commitments.
• Purpose that drives change: You'll contribute to solutions that transform global trade, creating environmental and operational innovations. You'll be in the driver's seat of ideas, developing digital technologies that set industry standards and position us as the forerunner.
• People who move together: You'll collaborate with people who build lasting relationships through global expertise, connections, and a commitment to sustainability.

Become part of our global network of 5,200 professionals across 120+ countries, where your work drives innovation, sustainability, and meaningful impact around the world.

What you bring to the role:

• Expert Financial Acumen: You are a fully qualified accountant (ACA/ ACCA/CIMA) with a strong grasp of business controlling, financial reporting, processes, and systems, ready to apply your deep financial expertise.

• Extensive Global Experience: You bring 5+ years of high-level business controlling or demanding financial roles, ideally within a global business environment, demonstrating your capability in complex financial landscapes.

• Continuous Improvement Driver: Proven experience in driving continuous financial process improvements ensures you're committed to enhancing efficiency, quality, and harmonization in a dynamic setting.

• Advanced Analytical & System Skills: Highly proficient with finance tools like Oracle, Hyperion (HFM), Excel, and SAP, you possess strong analytical and organizational skills to provide insightful reporting and robust controls.

• Strategic Business Partner: With exceptional business acumen, results orientation, and influencing skills, you're adept at partnering with stakeholders, communicating effectively, and challenging performance to achieve strategic goals.

• Adaptable & Proactive Leader: A self-starter with enthusiasm, drive, and flexibility, you're committed to quality and possess the interpersonal skills necessary to lead, advise, and foster a fair work environment.

Ready to elevate your career? Apply today!

We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis, and the position will be filled as soon as the most suitable candidate is identified.

Please Note: Please note, you must be able to prove your Right to Work in the UK - sponsorship is not available for this role.