If you are ambitious, self-motivated, hardworking and a team player and interested in growing your career with an International FMCG business, please read through our job opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
1) To implement, maintain and continuously improve best in class standardised reporting for all functions within the Unit Dosing Leadership Team – including Sales, Operations, Product Development, and Marketing - with commentary that provides insightful analysis to aide decision making. To ensure reporting is consistent within the division and across other divisions.
2)To own and prepare all financial slides for the Unit Dosing Leadership Team Meeting (UDLT) and Monthly / Quarterly Business Reviews (MBRs / QBRs) with the Executive Committee (ExCo).
3)To own the divisional quarterly financial forecast, annual budget and 5 Year Planning processes, ensuring consistency in approach across local finance teams, coordinating and owning the overall process at divisional level, ensuring Group submission requirements are met with assumptions and targets well understood by all.
4)To support the Financial ‘cash up’ of the monthly S&OP / IBP Process so it is the one source of truth in guiding the business, challenging the Sales and Operations Teams to deliver on their commitments.
5)To support weekly performance reporting required by Group Finance, including the weekly sales outlook process.
6)To support monthly Finance Reviews (Demand and Supply) in order to hold Sales Directors, Key Account Managers and Plant Managers to account for their numbers and to drive action which will improve EBITA.
7)To act as commercial business partner for high priority/strategic business opportunities
8)To support and challenge cost centre managers to manage and control divisional overhead costs through insightful reporting, regular review meetings and tracking of cost reduction plans.
9)Responsibility for the costing team with an aim to ensure they’re providing high quality costings, that are accurate and reflect the most likely costs that will be incurred to manufacture and distribute goods.
10)Manage a team of commercial finance business partners, ensuring they’re adequately trained to business partner the commercial team to the highest standards.
11)To provide ad hoc financial analysis to Divisional and Group stakeholders, working closely with the MD, Commercial Director and Group Financial Controller in particular.
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