Regional Overheads Co-Pilot

Job description

Regional Finance Overheads Co-Pilot

Salary - £47,000 - £60,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Location – Padington

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES® and UNCLE BEN’S®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

After the successful move of the overheads co-pilot to a new role, the role of Regional overheads co-pilot position for Confectionery Europe is vacant.

The purpose of the job is to

·  Co-Pilot the EMEA Regional Center ($90M) to deliver its financial shape in alignment with the company’s strategy.
·  Deliver insights and recommendations on EMEA region and its Units Overheads development ($1B) how to deliver short and long objectives aligned with the company’s strategy. Support and influence overhead target setting and other investment decisions
·  Be a drive belt between Global and Units to ensure new tools and processes are adopted

In this role you will:

·  Manage the Financial Shape of the Regional Overheads Center from target setting and alignment of objectives – which are fully aligned to the strategic direction and aspirations of the business – towards delivering actual Overheads results against the budget
·  Engage with Regional Stakeholders, including Regional Functional Presidents to explain financial methodologies and performance
·  Delivers insights and analysis on financial results and guides future business decisions. This includes periodic and ad hoc financial packages to support Regional CFO
·  Supports Regional PMO on Organization related matters with building scenarios, tracking progress and liaise with Corporate Controlling to ensure alignment with Policies.
·  Manages operational execution of period closing and planning cycles: review of preliminary periodic results, incoming and outgoing charges and initiate accruals if appropriate; prepares plan loader packages and delivers them to MFS if applicable.
·  Identify, recommend and implements process / system improvements to ensure financial processes are effective and efficient in co-operation with MFS, the Regional EMEA Team and Corporate Controlling
·  Be the key point of contact for the whole Region about global cross-charges to understand and challenge the targets received, cascade them to units, ensure actuals are correctly posted
·  Lead the animation of the overheads community copilot of the Region (for both factories and markets) by organizing periodic calls with 20+ copilots to inform units of Region performance, share best practice, listen to common needs across the Region…
·  Develop new tools to monitor overheads either leveraging on new tools (Power BI, Tableau…) or in coordination with the Digital Factory

To do this role you’ll need:

·  Have experience as a Finance business partner in a business (market) will be an asset to understand business dynamics. Being “fluent” in Excel and having some appetite to learn about new tools “Power BI” is a must. Being organized, being able to set priorities to manage a large number of activities and stakeholders will be key to succeed in the role.

·  The job is located in Paddington, a new, modern regional hub for senior leaders. Associates usually work from home 1 day a week on Fridays.

In return we offer:

• Great career progression

• Range of in-house training opportunities

• Competitive salary, bonus and range of large company benefits

We know it’s important to you to find out as much about us as possible, so following a review of your CV the first stage will be a telephone interview with the hiring manager and a chance for you to ask lots of questions. If successful you will be invited to an interview day in front of our panel. Don’t worry you’ll have plenty of time to prepare.

Closing date: 8 th November 2019

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