Overview
As a result of the transition to S4 and the ongoing Finance Transformation, a temporary role is required to support the stabilisation of the UK& business. The purpose of this role is to be the lead point of contact for the UK&I cluster for the S4 stabilisation and optimisation wave, acting as the interface between the project and local market teams.
This role will help drive resolution of outstanding issues, and co-ordinate inputs from the local teams to drive process improvements, whilst ensuring Senior Stakeholders are kept up to date of the status and progress of the project.
Responsibilities
Stabilisation
* Understand the outstanding issues within the UK&I market and ensure momentum with project team to drive resolution
* Co-ordinate inputs from both UK and Ireland Finance teams, ensuring right people are looped in at right time to drive efficiency and right outcome
* Be part of cross functional end to end workshops and ensure deadlines are upheld for any local market inputs required
* Where workarounds exist post S4 implementation, lead an internal review of current processes ‘mini audit’ to ensure there are no high risk areas and workarounds are robust (Rebates a key area)
* Own the communication to UK&I FLT and UK&I Leadership team where applicable for status updates
* Ownership of the IT issue log and making wider team aware of any key issues and any required escalations by Finance Director
Optimisation
* Identify opportunities for automation and streamlining of processes to drive efficiencies, ensuring the root cause of any issues are identified and resolved
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance and streamline existing reporting and provide recommendations
* Drive standardisation and ways of working across UK&I whilst processes are optimised
* Develop standard operating procedures for local market
* Support the transition of FP&A into local market and work with the team to drive efficiencies and process improvements
* Other ad hoc requests as applicable where full time FBP resource is needed to support the project and coverage is required
Qualifications
Essential
* University Degree or equivalent
* Experience working in a finance role
* Power BI
* SAP ECC/SAP BI
* Advanced MS Office package, particularly Excel
* High level of business / financial acumen and analytical ability
* Strong communication skills
* Strong planning and organisational skills
* Attention to detail and accuracy
* Able to challenge, understand and communicate to different Stakeholder groups in a clear way
* Able to quickly learn and understand interactions between various finance/reporting system
* Focussed on meeting deadlines and commitments to others. Always looking to improve processes
* Seeking out the root cause rather than just dealing with the symptoms “the so what”
* Able to challenge, understand and communicate to different Stakeholder groups in a clear way
* Pro-active and able to work off own initiative and as part of a Team
Desirable
* Experience of working in an FMCG organisation
* Accounting qualification
* Experience with working across cross functional Teams in a matrix style organisation
* Project management
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