Snacks Supply Chain Finance Planning Manager

Overview To provide financial management and value add analysis for UK Snacks Cost of Goods Sold, actuals reporting and forecasting information. Providing insight to performance drivers, including trends analysis to enable the UKBU and wider Europe Supply Chain teams to help navigate plan delivery. The role is the key interface with the BU CFO and with Site Finance teams across UK Snacks coupled with the Europe Supply Chain Finance team regarding the accurate provision of UK CoGS for P&L integration Responsibilities Financial ownership for the provision of Cost of Goods Sold actuals reporting and forecasting for UK Snacks with annual budget of £687mm. To Include manufacturing site information through partnership with the Site Finance Manager group, Global procurement, E2E Supply Chain, BU FP&A and BU Commercial teams Manage the rolling forecasting process and timelines with all key stakeholders. Completion of analysis and presentation decks for both period results and forecasts, clearly identifying main variances via cause of change models and key risks and opportunities. Partner with Snacks FP&A Manager to ensure the accurate consolidation of forecasts and actual results through to corporate submission with appropriate commentary. Lead a team of 3 direct reports to ensure accuracy of forecasts and actuals including systems accuracy (Mainly SAP). Lead implementation of remediation plans for any issues/errors. Drive forecast accuracy through leadership of the Snacks CoGS rolling forecasting process. Partner with all key information providers including Site teams, BU Commercial teams, Global Procurement, Co-Man, Intercompany MU’s, UK Sustainability team etc and will implement process improvements to drive the provision of better quality information. Lead provision and communication of Ireland and Intercompany CoGS information to relevant MU’s with appropriate commentary via direct report Provision of clearly articulated management information across Finance and Supply Chain Leadership teams to ensure course correction is instigated to deliver plan commitments Provision of fully quantified risk and opps within our latest estimates and formal forecasts Fully support SAP sustain workstreams to build team capability, knowledge and understanding. Key member of the SCF (Supply Chain Finance) Planning team, driving forecasting and reporting improvements value added analysis and other ad hoc financial analysis relating to COGS Lead direct report team to deliver objectives and development plans as appropriate to ensure optimal team performance and succession planning for roles Qualifications Functional competencies required: Intellectual capacity to link accounting concepts to underlying financial data systems in order to understand, analyse and interpret both actual results and forecast data Determination and drive to deliver insightful financial analysis to support the BU CFO to navigate the P&L deliverables. Key to success with be having an ability to challenge the status quo to deliver process improvements and share best practice across the wider supply chain finance team Self starter with the ability to work autonomously driving own agenda balanced with capacity to recognise when support required Communication skills to provide clearly articulated and appropriate messages across wide spectrum of stakeholders, from equivalent BU analysts to Director/Senior Director level Team Management experience will be important as this role has 3 direct reports and will require drive, coaching and performance assessment throughout. Commercial ACA, ACCA or CIMA with at least 3-5 years PQE experience, ideally in an FMCG or manufacturing environment with strong development/promotion record Strong presentation and communication skills. The ability to liaise confidently and assertively across all levels. High level of proficiency with data manipulation using software packages - Excel in particular essential. Accounting systems experience - ideally SAP but can learn on the job. Assertive and independent with the ability to cope effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines. This includes working on multiple projects simultaneously, usually with complex data. Ability to manage a very broad agenda, and single-mindedly ensure key objectives are delivered. Ability to prioritise and delegate support requests, align priorities, arrange resource or push back where resources are insufficient.