Business Controller

DP World is at the heart of Europe’s trading future, providing the right trading infrastructure, smart logistical solutions, and the advantages of freeport status to our customers. As a dynamic and expanding global logistics provider, our people are central to driving sustained growth and innovation.

As part of our continued growth, we are seeking a Business Controller to provide financial leadership and commercial insight for our Coventry logistics operation. This role plays a critical part in driving business performance, ensuring robust financial governance, and supporting operational decision-making through meaningful analysis and strategic partnership. Acting as a trusted advisor to operational leaders, the Business Controller will own financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and performance management, while identifying opportunities to improve profitability, productivity, and customer outcomes. The successful candidate will work closely with both site and regional leadership teams, combining strong financial expertise with commercial awareness to influence business performance and support sustainable growth. Our ideal candidate will be CIMA qualified with exprience in a similar role.

Location: Coventry and Hinckley/Hybrid

Contract: Permanent
 

How you will contribute

• Lead the monthly financial close process, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of site financial performance.
• Own site P&L reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, providing clear commentary and actionable insights.
• Maintain robust financial controls, including balance sheet management, customer billing oversight, and capital expenditure governance.
• Partner with site and regional operational leaders to translate operational and customer data into meaningful business insights.
• Identify productivity, cost improvement, and operational efficiency opportunities that support business performance.
• Support customer contract renewals, pricing reviews, and supplier negotiations through robust financial analysis.
• Proactively identify financial risks, opportunities, and process improvements to strengthen profitability and contract performance.
• Prepare and present financial performance reports to key stakeholders, supporting informed decision-making across the business.
• Lead, coach, and develop a direct report, ensuring clear objectives, engagement, and high performance.
• Support both internal and external audit activities, ensuring compliance with financial and governance standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Operations, HR, Procurement, Pricing, and PMO to deliver business objectives.
• Promote DP World values, principles, safety culture, and commitment to ethical business practices in all activities.

What you will bringQualifications

• CIMA qualified or equivalent recognised accounting qualification.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong IT literacy.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years' experience in a similar finance or business controlling role.
• Experience managing month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting processes.
• Experience partnering with operational stakeholders to deliver commercial insight and performance improvements.
• Experience supporting customer contracts, pricing activities, and commercial decision-making.
• Logistics, supply chain, or warehousing sector experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
• SAP experience would be beneficial.
• Experience supporting internal and external audit requirements.

Skills

• Strong financial analysis, reporting, and business partnering capabilities.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong commercial awareness and problem-solving ability.
• Highly analytical with exceptional critical thinking skills.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and continuous improvement.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Effective collaborator, capable of working independently and across diverse teams.
• Professional approach to handling confidential and sensitive information.
• Willingness to travel and work on-site in Coventry a minimum of three days per week, with occasional travel to the finance office in Hinckley.
• Eligibility to work in the UK.

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organisation. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 111,000 employees from 159 nationalities, spanning 77 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future.

We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses - Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology - and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we're at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures - not just in what we do but also in how we behave.

We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what's possible.

The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW
TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.