The role is the key regional business partner on factory logistics and will need to build important collaboration on market logistics to support the overall regional logistics perspective.

The scale and breadth of the role will require strong organisational agility and perspective, as well as the current integration providing a great change leadership opportunity.

KEY OUTPUTS

Reporting

The initial priority will be to establish effective reporting of the regional logistics financial performance to:

• Monitor performance vs targets (costs & cash/stock) via the provision of insight-driven reporting on periodic results with supply chain industrial engineers (IEs) and factory logistics managers for factory logistics and logistics overheads to key stakeholders.
• Assess the implications of results for delivery of full year targets and drive actions with stakeholders via leading the presentation of results and their implications at periodic reviews, in order to course correct vs targets and monitor risks & opportunities.

Control

• Ensure rigour of financial accounting and control through:
• Periodic review of factory P&L and balance sheet accounts
• Support the interim and annual audit, taking leadership of common issues across the region

Continuous Improvement

• Lead the development of understanding of cost drivers, forecasting methodologies and reporting to develop enhanced insights on business drivers and the robustness of future financial plans

Strategy Development

• Business Partner the Logistics costs and align our future network capacity to MWC market demand via ensuring fit for purpose to meet the Demand profile.
• Develop clear and communicated financial plans and metrics over a 5 year time horizon for Logistics, against which to track performance.

Projects

• Support the Supply chain IEs and Factory Logistics teams to develop the longer term roadmap to optimize cost efficiency via financial analysis support to projects, and making recommendations on the best financial courses of action.
• Support forthcoming projects on network optimization and on optimizing the business model.

QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES

Education ACA/CIMA/ACCA qualified accountant or relevant experience

Experience Considerable business partner experience in FMCG, Retail or logistics businesses.

Finance roles supporting Supply Chain (especially Logistics plus manufacturing useful).

Multi-national businesses, working in a matrix structure (local, regional, global)

Confident to be able to lead initiatives and challenge/influence senior stakeholders

Key competencies:

• Organisational agility
• Customer Focus
• Great team player
• Planning
• Priority Setting
• Action & delivery Oriented

Functional Competencies:

• Financial Shaping and Decision Making
• Great systems skills: Confident in reporting from SAP, SAP BW/COPA (or equivalent ERPs) and BI systems (e.g. COGNOS / Business Objects)
• Financial Processes
• Accounting