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
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What will this role achieve?
The Global Godiva Finance Reporting Lead is responsible for overseeing a company’s financial operations and to help ensure we make effective decisions. The areas we cover include: understanding and reporting on performance to drive improvements and standardization, evaluating project business cases, and coordinating planning and forecasting processes.
This position reports to the VP Finance Godiva and the role holder will have responsibility for delivering key forecasting and reporting activities. Our remit covers all Godiva regions and we deal with many senior stakeholders.
This role is aimed at developing, coordinating, and ensuring quality reporting and insightful analysis across the business.in order to give us a deep understanding of performance and be able to give insight to help drive the business forward.
What will be your key deliverables?
- 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 and President of Godiva
- 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
- Development of analytical tools, trend analysis
- Annual target setting modelling involving internal & external insights
- Develop process for key planning cycles eg Budget.
- Financial modelling, evaluation & decision support of global activities
- Strategic Projects and lead for financial and business evaluations
What do you need for this role?
Essential
- FP&A 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, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
