Job Description
FP&A responsibility for total business including
* Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Forecast
* Total Business Presentations including M5 and MRD decks
* Cost management over Advertising and Promotion, Warehouse and Distribution and Sales, General and Admin costs.
* Financial Management for the Coffee Solutions business – machines and ingredients
Responsibilities / Key activities
FP&A
* Lead role in consolidating, reporting and explaining total P&L for JDE UK&I business
* Lead reporting for AOP, M5 and MRD and other LT requirements
* Work alongside the Marketing and Sales Finance teams to improve business partnering and drive financial accuracy and accountability
* Supported by four direct reports, managing the business performance analysis support, driving the key FP&A processes: Business partnering with the leadership team, automation of management reporting, AOP, monthly M cycles and Quarterly Latest Estimate submission.
Cost Management
* Role has one direct report that manages W&D and SG&A costs and OWC
* Ensuring costs are well managed, forecast accurately, cost drivers understood, risks and opportunities quantified etc.
* Business partners are supported and challenged
Coffee Solutions
- The role will support the Commercial Director of Coffee Solutions to provide business insights to maximize performance and ensure accurate reporting and processes are efficient.
Team management
* Lead and coach the team to deliver step change performance supporting risk and opportunity evaluation and actions implementation to deliver results
* Manage team engagement including implementation of Gallup action plan and other team activities (Insights, volunteering etc)
* Pro-actively participate in broader functional finance leadership, talent and succession planning. Contribute to broader business development projects / stretch assignments.
Qualifications
Education
* Qualified accountant with c5 years post-qualified experience
Experience
Must have:
* Excellent people management skills
* Ability to communicate with and influence people at all levels within and outside the organisation
* Commercial acumen
* Ability to work on own initiative / Proactive
* Ability to prioritise workload
* Good written and oral communication skills – framing complex in a simple and concise way for non-finance stakeholders
* Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
Additional Information
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