Senior Customer Finance Manager Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don't compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
pladis was established in June 2016 and brings together the much loved, global brands of Godiva, McVitie's, Ulker, and DeMet's under one pladis umbrella, to form a global giant in biscuits, chocolate, and confectionary.
The UK & ROI pladis region employs 5,000 people across 13 locations in the UK & ROI (nine manufacturing / distribution sites and four office locations), and is an anchor market for the business.
The UK & ROI has ambitious plans, Customer Finance act as an enthusiastic and honest business partner to help the business build robust external relationships and maximise internal value creation and ensure the Customer teams develop a better understanding of both consumer and trade dynamics to build more effective strategies.
You will support in driving the rituals and routines necessary to understand performance, deliver insightful and actionable financial analysis, provide rigorous financial control and evaluation processes to support the Customer team with customer investment decisions.
Principle Accountabilities Develop a strong business partnering culture with account team, providing supportive challenge and valuable insight while ensuring on-going continual improvement.Work with the Customer team to drive better understanding of the drivers of performance (including trends, channel/customer profitability and understanding of external retailer landscape and dynamics) and develop GAP fill opportunities.Support a regular rhythm of business performance diagnostics, the annual & strategic planning process & DOP/ Forecast process.Support customer discussions by preparing Joint Business Plan evaluations with a more for more mentality to maximise the investment as well as modelling customer P&L's.Manage & Support to control terms/pricing investment, tracking of delivery & P&L management of accruals.Implement pre & post evaluation of TI investment made to optimise returns.Manage unsolicited deductions working with Genpact and account teams.Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience Essential Prior experience in FMCG in Customer/ Commercial Finance.A passion for business performance management & analytics.A strong collaborator and communicator.Ability to influence and work collaboratively across the organisation.Ability to work effectively in an ambiguous and changing role and able to drive agenda forward.Self-confidence and skill to challenge the most senior leaders in the business.Qualified with 2+ years post qualified experience.Degree holder.Advanced MS Excel, PPT.Fluent in English.A qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA).Desirable Minimum Bachelor degree in mathematics, accountancy, physical sciences, engineering or economics.pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
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