Senior Customer Finance Manager

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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pladis​ ​was​ ​established​ ​in​ ​June​ ​2016​ ​and​ ​brings​ ​together​ ​the​ ​much​ ​loved, ​global brands​ ​of​ ​Godiva, ​​McVitie’s, ​​Ulker, ​​and​ ​DeMet’s​ ​under​ ​one​ ​pladis​ ​umbrella, ​​to form​ ​a​ ​​global​ ​giant​ ​in​ ​biscuits, ​​chocolate, ​​and​ ​confectionary.

The​ ​UK​ ​&​ ​ROI​ ​pladis​ ​region​ ​employs​ ​5,000​ ​people​ ​across​ ​13​ ​locations​ ​in​ ​the​ ​UK &​ ​ROI​ ​(nine​ ​manufacturing​ ​/​ ​distribution​ ​sites​ ​and​ ​four​ ​office​ ​locations), ​​and​ ​is an​ ​anchor​ ​market​ ​for​ ​the​​ ​business.

The​ ​UK​ ​&​ ​ROI​ ​has​ ​ambitious​ ​plans​, Customer Finance act as an enthusiastic and honest business partner to help the business build robust external relationships and maximise internal value creation and ensure the Customer teams develop a better understanding of both consumer and trade dynamics to build more effective strategies.

You will support in driving the rituals and routines necessary to understand performance, deliver insightful and actionable financial analysis, provide rigorous financial control and evaluation processes to support the Customer team with customer investment decisions.

Principle Accountabilities

• Develop a strong business partnering culture with account team, providing supportive challenge and valuable insight while ensuring on-going continual improvement.
• Work with the Customer team to drive better understanding of the drivers of performance (including trends, channel/customer profitability and understanding of external retailer landscape and dynamics) and develop GAP fill opportunities.
• Support a regular rhythm of business performance diagnostics, the annual & strategic planning process & DOP/ Forecast process.
• Support customer discussions by preparing Joint Business Plan evaluations with a more for more mentality to maximise the investment as well as modelling customer P&L’s.
• Manage & Support to control terms/pricing investment, tracking of delivery & P&L management of accruals.
• Implement pre & post evaluation of TI investment made to optimise returns.
• Manage unsolicited deductions working with Genpact and account teams.

Education, Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Essential

• Prior experience in FMCG in Customer/ Commercial Finance.
• A passion for business performance management & analytics.
• A strong collaborator and communicator.
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively across the organisation.
• Ability to work effectively in an ambiguous and changing role and able to​ ​drive​ ​agenda​ ​forward​ ​
• Self-confidence and skill to challenge the most​ ​senior​ ​leaders​ ​in​ ​the​ ​business
• Qualified with 2+ years post qualified experience.
• Degree holder
• Advanced MS Excel, PPT
• Fluent in English
• A qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)

Desirable

• Minimum Bachelor degree in mathematics, accountancy, physical sciences, engineering or economics.

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.