Finance BP UK & IE

About The Role:

The Finance BP for UK&IE is the right hand for financial topics of the Managing Director UK&IE and the business partner of the commercial teams of UK&IE. The Finance BP is accountable for the short- and long-term financial performance of the country cluster UK&IE together with the UK&IE management team. The role is key in shaping and defining the strategy of the Cluster with respect to volume & profitability, pricing decisions, customer/product/market mix, costs and working capital management.

The role presumes hybrid working model with min. 2 days per week in the Banbury office.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a business partner to the UK&IE country cluster Managing Director and the UK&IE commercial team. Co-pilot with the business and provide meaningful decision support to management whilst influencing and challenging key decisions
• Develop together with the Directors and their commercial teams the commercial strategy for the area of responsibility and drive strategy implementation
• Steer the MTP (mid-term plan) for the Cluster as per process and guidance set by Global FP&A
• Drive the financial performance of the cluster, focusing on profitability and working capital management, in line with strategy and business objectives
• Provide (together with FP&A) the business and management with analytical support to enable an understanding of the business dynamics
• Closely cooperate with FP&A in terms of preparing budgets and forecasts, identifying and supporting cost savings
• Lead and coordinate projects to improve business performance, in particular profitability and working capital improvements
• Drive and coordinate commercial business case preparation related to business expansions/ outsourcing deals and sales offices
• Support transition to the new finance operating model (incl. GBS leverage)
• Drive improvement initiatives of finance processes, with focus on digitalization and standardization
• Collaborate with Pricing to ensure an accurate pricing of products to customers (based on FP&A analysis of pre- and post-calculated costs), including a correct reflection of interest costs in price levels
• Ensure integrity and financial controls in the Clusters of the organization by using and building on data, information and intelligence from global finance functions

About You:

• Bachelor’s / Master’s in Finance, Accounting, Economics or similar
• English business proficiency, both written and oral
• Extensive experience in finance (prior roles in accounting/FP&A/business partnering in a multinational company, preferably in B2B / food industries)
• Strong stakeholder management skills in matrix organization
• Open-minded and curious, eager to continuously learn and explore various aspects of finance, self-starter
• Analytical, hands-on, flexible, very solution-oriented and performance-driven to achieve the targets
• Able to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands
• Strong team player
• Knowledge of SAP (incl. BW), Power BI
• IFRS knowledge