Commercial Finance Director
Twinings
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Working alongside the FP&A Manager to prepare standard monthly/quarterly reporting and commentary on key financials for Senior Management, as well as ad-hoc analyses to quickly respond to stakeholder questions as they arise.
- Working alongside a Senior Analyst to provide general reporting and support for the EMEA GMPO function including helping with Month End and assisting with Budgeting and Forecasting processes as needed.
- Supporting Regional FP&A Manager with information requests including Long Term Model (LTM) updates, impairment analysis and other ad hoc queries.
- Supporting the wider GMPO Finance organisation with ad hoc requests.
- Working alongside an Analyst to support EMEA JV Reporting which includes preparing month-end reports, coordinating forecasts, and engaging with JV partner to provide financial results
- Co-ordinating inputs and preparing presentations to be delivered to Senior EMEA, Corporate leaders and JV Board
- General M&A project support as needed including data collection for potential new deals, supporting the team with tasks related to setting up operations in new markets or integration of an acquired business.
- Providing finance integration support as needed. Including co-ordinating inputs to help M&A project track leaders to understand and manage costs within budget and support their decision making within the organization.
- Preparing for and participating in review meetings with M&A project track leads and finance leadership teams and follow-up on action items.
- Proactively review how we can simplify and improve timeliness of reporting, without compromising accuracy, by suggesting system enhancements, report automation and process improvements to eliminate roadblocks
- Regularly review shape and form of the information provided to management and strive for continuous improvement to maintain relevancy
- Strong Business Partnering skills essential to pro-actively support the Senior Management team, M&A teams and Corporate Development with business decisions, building strong working relationships within the business
- Participate in the continued development of budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning and modeling tools
- Solving problems related to the regional, functional, and country complexity of our business model.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (Finance or Accounting) with 5-7 years relevant experience
- CPA, ACCA or equivalent is a plus
- Fluent in English (both spoken and written)
- Strong numerical, writing and analytical skills with an attention to detail
- Ability to work well independently and in groups
- Ability to perform multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities
- Strong communication & presentation skills with the ability to engage with senior business leaders
- Advanced Excel & PowerPoint skills
- Experience with Hyperion preferred
