Description:
This role will proactively business partner with the Brand and food commercial leadership teams, providing insightful analysis, challenge and influence to drive decisions and actions that improve the bottom line. The job holder will provide support and challenge, working cross-functionally with business Stakeholders to deliver the Brand performance analysis and drive the Food First programme. The job holder will support in the tracking and delivery of financial benefits.
What you need to do
- Act as key Finance Business Partner for the Brand team interpreting management reporting to provide insight, analysis and commentary to stakeholders and providing challenge to the business
- Lead the understanding and tracking of the Brand elements of the Food First strategy as well as the impact on wider Gross Profit performance.
- Hold the business to account for P&L performance, identifying areas for value creation and building action plans that are put into place
- Develop cross-functional working relationships with Brand, the Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Investor Relations, Business Unit finance teams and Commercial Strategy
- Ensure close alignment between multiple stakeholders by delivering clear and robust analysis in a timely manner in line with initiatives and plans across the business
- Support the business in identifying risks, anomalies and opportunities. Take the lead in prioritising these and work with the business to manage them
- Develop a robust budget and planning framework that sets realistic but challenging targets and deliver the key messages to a variety of stakeholders
- Ownership of Central Costs for Brand, ensuring best in class reporting and variance analysis and to identify and facilitate initiatives to further develop understanding of budget make-up and subsequent performance
- Attend regular department meetings ensuring Finance has a ‘voice’ and a ‘seat at the table’ where P&L impact meets department initiatives
- Complete ad hoc / bespoke analysis and reporting for the business area as required to drive improvements
- Support the design of management reporting, ensuring it is fit for purpose, streamlined and aligns to that prepared for the other commercial areas
- Work with our Finance Transformation and data team (ADA) to ensure analytical resource is used effectively and business priorities and resource allocation are well understood and aligned
- Stepping up to cover the Senior Finance Manager where needed
- Supporting several ad hoc projects and various teams as required during busy times such as Budget, Corporate Plan etc.
- Success in this role will mean being able to deliver timely, robust and accurate analysis; translating data into valuable business insight, communicating all relevant financial and non-financial information when needed