A recruiting company is looking for a financial manager for its client FMCG
Drive results and excellence in execution
- Ensure financial plans and investments are in line with market / cluster / regional priorities and financial objectives are properly cascaded and achieved.
- Create contingency plans (‘what if'' and scenario analyses') to ensure risk mitigation and the continued financial health of the Market.
- Work on growth plans — short term and long term — for the markets, building strong business cases, relevant to the strategy and the go-to-market set up in each market.
- Analyse performance externally to win — i.e. competitive benchmarking, identifying key drivers of performance and providing recommendations to market management and key commercial team stakeholders.
- Provide financial support and constructive challenges to local leadership team to maximise the value of our sales and efficiency in our cost base, as well as maximizing the key balance sheet and cash flow drivers.
- Ownership for annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes (landing estimations and analysis, Risks&Opps valuations).
- Provide analysis/commentary at the market level to provide a financial perspective to the business planning processes.
- Ensure adequacy of controls, strong stewardship tone from the top and compliance. Ensure audits (internally and externally) are fully supported and action plans are being properly communicated and addressed.
- Liaise with Global Tax and Treasury, as well as Global Business Services (GBS). Regular interactions with the Regional CFO, Regional Controller, and Internal Audit Team on any audit related issues. Identify improvements in processes, guidelines, principles, and policies to ensure adequacy and compliance on audit related processes.
- Prepare and submit management reports, ensuring integrity in interpretation and commentary provided.
- Assist in developing business cases and strategies for new brands/product and new suppliers and work with stakeholders to achieve approval across the matrix.
- Drive and lead finance transformation projects in respect to people, processes, and systems for the Market.
- Ensure SLA’s (Service Level Agreements) with GBS are met and challenged when necessary. Drive local process improvement initiatives.
- Change management — Change agility — seeing change as an opportunity to improve upon complexities of current business processes. Be a positive change agent that is challenging the status quo.
Financial
- Own Market P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow.
- Produce consolidated monthly projections against forecasts, budget, and prior periods.
- Analyse and interpret revenue, cost, margin, and ROI variances to identify performance drivers/ improvement opportunities.
- Focus on Cash and Working Capital improvement.
- With GBS support, monitor and optimize Balance Sheet and Working Capital performance indicators as well as cash-flows.
- With GBS support, monitor local statutory accounting and reporting.
- With Global Tax support, ensure full compliance with all local tax requirements and reporting.
THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO CREATE YOUR LEGACY:
- Experience of a commercial finance leadership role and proven track record of successful delivery of results in a matrix organization, managing multiple stakeholders in a complex environment.
- Proven ability to steer financial performance of individual markets or clusters.
- Process focused with an understanding of end to end business processes and their financial impacts.
- Ability to identify root cause issues and develop plans to resolve.
- Skilled at organizing and prioritizing multiple projects and resource constraints to optimize results.
- Ability to communicate effectively to senior leadership to influence and inform decision making.
- Possess In depth knowledge of financial processes and systems, and the implementation of effective internal controls.
- Ability to analyse financial information to understand the current situation and to determine and recommend strategic direction to management.
- Proven experience of introducing and managing changes to finance systems, procedures, and practices.
- Understanding of strong compliance & controls, and how to develop appropriate guidelines.
- Confident and proficient in the use of key SAP and finance systems (incl. TM1/Cognos), MS Office with advanced Excel skills.
- Ability to establish strong working relationships with colleagues from different functions and cultures.
- Qualified accountant ACCA, ACA, CPA, (or equivalent), or substantial relevant work experience.
- Fluency in English and ideally local market language (Ukrainian).
PERSONAL QUALITIES
- Analytical profile, with clear and action-oriented communication
- Ability to deliver tangible results upon high-level goals
- A team player who also deals well with introspective tasks that require a high level of concentration
- Curiosity, customer-centricity, results-orientation
- A Primo who takes joy and pride in building and developing successful teams
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