Global Finance Reporting Lead in London

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 because we expect pace and agility, 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.

The Global Finance Reporting Lead is responsible for:

• Overseeing Godiva’s end-to-end financial operations and helping ensure that effective business decisions are made. This includes understanding and reporting on business performance to drive improvements and standardization, evaluating project business cases, and coordinating Godiva’s planning and forecasting processes from Net Sales to EBITDA.
• Leading commercial finance processes for Godiva and Global Brands, including innovation and pricing architecture. This role provides clear visibility into product performance by preparing monthly regional and consolidated reports for the Godiva and Global Commercial Leadership Teams.
• Managing two Global HQ cost centers, including monitoring monthly spending, reporting financial results, and initiating the recharge process to regional teams in a fair and transparent manner.

This position reports to the Vice President Finance, Commercial and GODIVA and the role holder will have responsibility for delivering key forecasting, reporting and commercial activities. Our remit covers all Godiva and other pladis regions and we deal with many senior stakeholders. This role is aimed at developing, coordinating, and ensuring quality reporting and insightful financial and commercial analysis across the business to give us a deep understanding of performance and be able to give insight to help drive the business forward.

Key deliverables include:

• Manage relationships with Godiva regions and support the regional finance teams on key global activities.
• Preparation and analysis of business results and communication to the VP Finance, CEO of Godiva and Chief Commercial Officer of pladis.
• Challenging Godiva regions/operations to drive results.
• Adhoc analytics for leadership team and preparation of some reports.
• External insight analysis including competitor analysis.
• Embed new consolidation system and development of reports, analytical tools and trend analysis (Sales, profitability, cash flow and Capex).
• Annual target setting modelling involving internal & external insights.
• Develop process for key planning cycles eg Budget.
• Financial modelling, evaluation & decision support of global activities.
• Preparing commercial reporting for Godiva and global brands.
• Tracking performance of NPDs.
• Monitoring spendings of two HQ cost centers and reporting results, initiating recharging process to regions fairly.
• Strategic Projects and lead for financial and business evaluations.

Bring your experience:

• Essential FP&A, Commercial Finance experience.
• Qualified Accountant with 8+ years PQ experience.
• Financial Accounting background with strong understanding & proven experience of working capital and cash flow analysis.
• High end analytical & interrogation skills.
• Proven leadership skills, with the gravitas to build solid, successful working relationships cross functionally.
• Track record of providing robust and informative financial analysis, including planning and forecasting.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, to make financial analysis easily understood.
• Highly conscientious with good attention to detail, coupled with a broad perspective.
• Ability to plan optimally and work under own initiative.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Financial modelling, scenario evaluation and report development.

Desirable:

• Strong technical accounting skills (CA background).
• FMCG experience.
• Working across global organisations and working with different cultures/languages.
• Experience of business change projects.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to much loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake and chocolate. Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of our 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 bakeries across 11 countries and is united by our purpose: to ‘bring happiness with every bite’. As a responsible business delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.