Main Job Purpose
Key business partner to supply chain leadership team whose main responsibilities are:
Translate Supply chain strategies into financial plan
Business performance management delivering high quality insights facilitating effective decision making
Scenario analysis on innovations and capital investments
Job Summary
Translate Supply chain strategies into financial plan and monthly financial forecast
Ensure weekly tracking of supply chain performance against forecast
Identify value opportunities that require a particular intervention / project support from Finance Business Partner resources
Evaluate projects in process to ensure they have a favourable payback and return on investment
Drive better decision making around resource allocation and budget setting
Undertake major performance interventions if needed
Support supply chain team at the key decision gates of innovation business cases
Review impacts of performance interventions
Identify major risks and opportunities
Facilitate development of corrective actions to close gaps to targets
Facilitate identification and implementation of savings opportunities
Ensure that a robust Capex expenditure process is in place and enforced
Business partnering and insight
Collect data for base assumptions and liaise with Supply Chain, and relevant cross functional teams to build the base business case and sensitivity analysis
Perform Business Case modelling (or facilitate self service) and articulate business case characteristics to non-Finance stakeholders
Provide support in innovation funnel review analysis
Embed the rigour, discipline and continuous improvement around Post-Launch Evaluations (PLEs) for implemented projects
Provide insights to MCOs and Categories on innovation performance, contribution to company growth, PLE earnings and innovation trends
Process ownership and delivery
Act as subject matter experts in building Innovation Business Cases
Track Business Case (BC) progress including CAPEX projects
Own the BC tool and seek continuous improvement, simplification & standardisation
Build proactive Innovation Performance Management capabilities – maintain and continuously improve self-service tools and reports to track delivery of Innovation Business Cases (e.g. in market performance of key launches)
Provide training to Business Partners on standard Business Case tools
Develop a knowledge repository of best practices and share learnings with categories and countries
Key Requirements
A Bachelor’s degree and professional qualification CPA/ACCA
4-5 years’ experience in finance business partnering with at least 1 year in manufacturing or supply chain
Experience with the identification of risks & opportunities in the P&L
Experience in driving P&L performance improvements (e.g. closing gaps vs. target) and holding others accountable (particularly peers and senior leadership)
Significant experience managing a large and complex set of stakeholders
Experience in presenting to and communicating with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders
People management
Stakeholder management
Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail
Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
Strong engagement, presentation and communication skills
Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems
Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
Qualified accountant or equivalent
Influencing skills
