Senior Finance Analyst

Overview

Business Area: Nestle Waters & Healthy Beverages UK

Location: Gatwick or York

Salary: Circa £55,000 depending on experience.

Some of our other fantastic benefits:

• Potential, discretionary annual bonus
• Generous pension scheme – up to 12% contribution from Nestle
• 12 flexible days on top of 25-day holiday entitlement
• A focus on personal development and growth

Although this is a full-time opportunity, please speak to us about what flexibility means to you as we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs.

We are recruiting for a Senior Finance Analyst to support our Waters category and FP&A team, leading the monthly Period End Close (PEC) and Dynamic Forecast (DF) processes in the category, and ensuring accurate and insightful financial information provision to the teams.

At Nestlé Waters, we are passionately committed to enhancing people’s quality of life by leading Healthy Hydration through our passion for water and healthy beverages. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best loved brands including Buxton® natural mineral water, Nestlé Pure Life®, Princes Gate® and international brands San Pellegrino®, Acqua Panna®, and Perrier®. We take pride in championing inclusion and diversity.

Your impact

This role plays a crucial part in supporting decision making in the category, providing quality financial information to all key stakeholders, as well as being a leader in the finance analyst & analytics communities in the journey towards digitalisation and quality service across all categories.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Scenario Planning Meeting with the Category Head of Finance and relevant FP&A colleagues to ensure an aligned DF submission is agreed including all relevant R&Os.
• Ensure accurate capture in the FIT tool.
• Lead PEC process in category, understand and communicate clear drivers of performance to Head of finance through monthly PEC review meeting.
• Ensure key controls are executed for both PEC & DF submissions.
• Ensure category insightful reporting and analytics are provided to help the business to understand gaps to targets.

Additional responsibilities

• Ensure accurate preparation and publication of both the PEC and DF reporting packs, and assist Head of finance in co-piloting category stakeholders to understand key drivers of performance.
• Drive optimisation of DF process through continuous improvement, standardisation, and sharing of NIM best practices.
• Support with the co-ordination and phasing of total PFME budget providing updates as required.
• Oversee the accuracy and reliability of non-MOGE reporting, such as OVE (Other Value Expenditure), OPFE (Other Production Fixed Expenses), Bad Goods, and Bad Debts.

Qualifications

Your ingredients for success:

• To be successful in this role you will be a fully qualified accountant, and an enthusiastic and self-motivated finance professional, who is keen to gain insight, and to pro-actively manage challenging responsibilities.
• Good communication skills are important to enable financial information to be understood across the team.
• Ability to communicate financial information to finance colleagues.
• Keen to develop for continuous improvement and best practice projects.
• Good knowledge and understanding of the P&L.
• Have excellent systems knowledge including advanced Excel functionality and ideally possessing SAP experience.

What you need to know

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect and we believe that embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment allows everyone to reach their full potential and drives innovative thinking. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, parents, carers and members of the LGBT+ community. Please let us know if we can provide accommodations to ensure your full participation in the application process.