Group ESG and Finance Controls Manager

location:

Fruit Towers - London

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Here at innocent, we’re on a mission to make it easier for everyone to get more fruit and veg into their bodies. We started back in 1999 and since then we’ve gone from selling a few smoothies at a music festival to becoming one of Europe’s biggest drinks companies with around 1,000 people (and the B Corp seal of approval).

It’s nice to be able to say things like that but we’re not patting ourselves on the back just yet. We want to show everyone that it’s possible to be a successful business while looking after people and the planet too, so we’re trying to get better in pretty much every way. And that’s where this job comes in.

what you'll be doing

A bit about the role

Innocent is growing up and maturing from a big little company to a little big company. With greater size comes greater responsibility. It is an exciting time of change with having gone live with our first factory and new ERP systems in the past few years.

We have a great opportunity for someone to become Controls and ESG manager of this exciting business. This person will ideally be familiar with manufacturing and FMCG companies with a developed controls framework on a medium to large scale. Knowledge around ESG controls and reporting would be a great advantage.

This role, reporting into the Reporting and Compliance Lead, is a prominent compliance role. You will maintain and iteratively improve our ESG reporting and controls across the group. The role is also responsible for our compliance reporting requirements and supporting on our journey to a full SOX controls framework. Both the ESG and controls framework provides great exposure to work externally with our shareholder (Coca-Cola) and internally with the business across Europe to ensure we are addressing all requirements. This role is key in enabling innocent to be a responsible business and ensure we are reporting the right things in the right way.

The role is responsible for:

Developing and owning the reporting and controls process of ESG information (Environmental social and governance), which includes updating narratives, working with non-finance business partners.
Perform sample testing over the ESG information provided by the business, improving the data collection of this ESG information and submitting this information to the relevant stakeholders
Perform testing over a sample of controls from different processes. As a result, providing support to control owners and reviewers through training and best practice guidance to remediate any ineffective controls whilst ensuring the effective controls remain effective.
Run and iteratively develop the Control Self-Assessment process, which will provide monthly updates to the board of directors on the status on controls governance across the business.
Liaising with Coca-Cola controls teams to develop best practice training, templates and knowledge to share internally with control owners
Ad-hoc requests such as preparation for yearend submissions, Coca-Cola specific submissions and contract management

you'll have

Have solid compliance knowledge and skills within a robust framework who has a passion for improvement and a keen eye for what good looks like
Great communicator with a technical mindset but can communicate the message simply to a range of audiences including our shareholder
A keen eye for detail, with a questioning mindset who can get out identify and shore up processes
A structured approach to workload, who can tackle multiple streams of work and improvements in a sensible and timely way and distribute the work sensibly around the team to drive proactive management of this area
Someone who is happy to get hands-on with tools and the systems to understand how we can make our processes simpler, compliance integrated and reporting easier
An influential voice within finance and beyond finance promoting and affecting change

you'll get

Be a key part in establishing the future of the innocent’s compliance framework
An exciting chance to work in collaboration with the business and our shareholders on this change
A chance to support and understand the wider business in improving understanding and execution of compliance requirements

We want innocent to be a great place to work, so we do lots of stuff to make people feel at home and try to make sure everyone’s career is shaping up the way they want it to. There are plenty of opportunities to have a go at something new or take things further.

In exchange for helping us do business in the right way, you’ll get a solid rewards package that includes a salary (phew), private healthcare, a target-based bonus, and a bunch of other nice things like a day off on your birthday. And yes, you get free smoothies.

We also know that not all our drinkers come from the same background, or think the same – so why should we? At innocent, we want to be a great place to work where a diverse bunch of people from all backgrounds can turn up and thrive. When we hire, we want all the juice, bits, and pulp that make you who you are.

Even if you don’t think you can tick all the boxes, if the job sounds right for you, come and throw your hat in the ring.

Probably best to get your skates on though, as we might close this early if we get loads of applications.

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