Overview
Business Controller – Milton Keynes
About The Role
SALARY: Up to £58000.00 pa dependent on experience
LOCATION: One Delaware Drive, Milton Keynes
HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires 20% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.
HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE : 35 hours per week, permanent
CLOSING DATE: 17/09/2025 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier If we receive a high volume of applications.
We’re looking for a Business Controller to support Controlling and Commercial colleagues in steering and influencing decisions to meet company strategic targets. The primary function of the Business Controller role is to work with the Controlling Business Partner and Brand Managers to maximise the performance of their business areas by providing the stakeholders with insight; aiding decision-making processes; and supporting the organisation; ensuring the correct balance between control and support.
This specialist role will be instrumental in delivering technical implementation of sales and margin planning and pricing across multiple VWFS products and Brands.
What you’ll be doing:
- Negotiate and influence senior stakeholders to aid, propose and produce accurate forecasting data and associated rationale, used to model and implement plan of sales, mix and margin across all VWFS products (including Planning Rounds, Budgets and monthly reforecasts).
- Build in depth knowledge of Brand strategies through relationship engagement of Brand Management and VW Group. To support driving Brand strategies through Business Case oversight and Tactical investment initiatives.
- Regular volume and margin reviews for Campaign, Wholesale & Bank processes, including development, production, financial insight and presentation of findings. This ensures accuracy of pricing and its implementation along with the insight to influence future pricing choices.
- Responsible for ensuring integrity of financial reporting data whilst providing financial and technical insight and expertise, including financial modelling throughout the business to influence senior stakeholder’s decisions.
- Assisting with other Planning or Pricing related activities as required by the Controlling Business Partner including other existing Commercial products or emerging lines
What you’ll bring:
You’ll have a passion for stakeholder engagement and management alongside a data driven and analytical mindset
Essential experience & skills
- Strong Controlling and/or Business Partnering experience
- Experience of budgeting and forecasting discussions and analysis
- Advanced Excel skills
- A proactive approach with the ability to react appropriately and effectively to changing circumstances and demands
- Presentation experience to communicate complex issues with integrity at all levels up to, and including, Board level
- Excellent numeric and problem solving skills
- Proven ability to provide accurate data in a fast paced environment
- An appreciation of stakeholder requirements in particular Senior Management
What’s in it for you?
Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance.
OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.
About The Organisation
- Why join VWFS UK?
You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference through developing appropriate tools for use within the business to promote sustainable and controlled profitability, helping us to achieve our mission.
Our mission is straight forward; we want to be ‘The Key to Mobility’. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.
This role does not meet the UKVI’s criteria for the skilled worker sponsorship route, therefore we are unable to accept candidates requiring sponsorship for this role.
