Job Description

As the new Head of FP&A, you will report directly to the Head of Finance & Operations and manage a team of FP&A and Accounting professionals. You and your team will partner with the business to provide focused performance management, decision support, analysis, and insight to enable the Leadership Team to develop and execute effective strategies.Financial Planning and Forecasting

• Oversee and manage all aspects of fundamental financial planning and analysis, such as planning, spending, forecasting, analytics and report generation.
• Lead the annual budget and quarterly rolling forecast process, ensuring workable and locally owned set of plans agreed and approved by the Executive Leadership Team.
• Produce robust forecast that achieve business objectives by contributing to monthly S&OP forecasting process, managing top-down targets allocation and bottoms-up consolidation of different markets/ brands/ channels within the organization accurately.
• Provide valuable support to the commercial team, offering insight and value-added input on key financial topics and accurate analysis of budgets, forecast and actuals for the business planning.

Performance Management and Reporting

• Lead Management Committee review cycle, understand business performance drivers, identify risks & opportunities, and influence the implementation of remedial action and initiatives to drive performance.
• Providing commercially sound financial analysis to drive cost effectiveness, commercial viability, operational capability while ensuring integrity of the business process complies with accounting principles and local regulations.
• Lead the preparation of monthly reports and drive Channel and Brand P&L dialogue with the respective Sales and Marketing leads.
• Produce and develop monthly reporting pack to senior stakeholders, regional offices and group consolidation team, to strict deadlines. Additionally, responsible for drafting the quarterly Finance Business Review report used to communicate performance and forecast to Region Office.
• Responsible to ensure the integrity of the financial data supplied by the Financial Accounting team to both internal and external stakeholders. Also ensure the accuracy of reporting and compliance with PR Accounting principles and Internal Control Framework.
• Responsible to produce accurate and timely submission of annual statutory financial statements and tax returns.

Pricing management & product portfolio

• Drive price setting process to identify the pricing objective & benchmark, analyze competitor pricing strategy and determine pricing methodology.
• Responsible to govern sales contracts and trade spend and uphold the contract approval process.
• Assists in Brand strategy development, taking outside-in view (competitor- and other external developments) and translating the strategy into financials and financial KPI\'s.

Return on Investment and Resource Allocation

• Build awareness within stakeholder on Return-on-Investment Metrics - to play a key role in challenging stakeholders in their investment strategy to ensure return per anticipation & portfolio objective is achieved.
• Ensure Trade Spend and A&P are within control and challenges cross functional teams to increase spend effectiveness.
• Support post-launch evaluation of recently launched products/events, evaluating financial and non-financials measures.
• Prepare tracking for trade expenses & other on-going programs to ensure alignment between budget against actual incurred and provide analytical support for ROI assessment.
• Ensure that finance team are supporting each area of the business so that managers across the company understand and \'own\' their numbers and receive analysis that informs and supports decision making.
• Be the focal point for complex financial queries, providing advice to stakeholders. Act as the Finance Lead on business operational topics.
• Support the business in gathering evidence to assess the costs, benefits and risks of a wide range of delivery options when making decisions and provide advice which helps secure value-for-money.

Opportunity to further develop leadership skills|Opportunity to work closely with the leadership team

• Bachelor\'s degree in Accounting or Finance, with a Chartered Professional Accounting (CPA) or similar designation preferred.
• At least 8+ years of experience in FP&A and financial business partnering within a multinational company.
• Understand the strategic business goals of an organization, able to \'look beyond the numbers\' and understand the wider business context.
• Good written and oral communication skills. Able to communicate clearly, concisely and in ways that promote understanding to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills, able to identify and interpret trends and improve financial forecasting.

A multinational company with a unique portfolio of strong, premium brands, a long-term customer-centric strategy, highly dedicated teams, and a sustainable and responsible approach to everything it does are key to the Group becoming the world leader in its industry.

• Opportunity to learn from and contribute to the strategic direction of the company through close collaboration with top management.
• Gain valuable insights and mentorship from top leadership through close interaction.

Michael Page