Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
You will be Manager in a team responsible for the overall financial integrity and performance of a country, category, Supply Chain or FP&A. You will support the Senior Manager or Director in data collection to prepare business proposals, verify assumptions, check daily execution and support delivery of overall objectives and ensure the integrity and timeliness of reporting.
How you will contribute
You will:
1. Manage and execute aspects of finance planning and performance management process and related financial decisions potentially including Strategic Plan and Annual Contract planning/forecasting, target development, financial performance reporting/analysis, financial modelling, and decision support for a focused scope within a region, business unit, country, Supply Chain, Mondelēz International Business Services or Corporate Finance team. You will own data collection and verify data integrity
2. Ensure a strong controls and compliance environment in your area of scope and ensure full compliance with our policies
3. Help the senior manager and the business prepare critical financial data and insight that enable perspectives for business strategies and decisions as well as execute ad hoc analysis on request
4. Lead projects to improve efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and embrace a mindset of continuous improvement
5. Contribute to a high-performing Finance team. You will also invest in personal development and the development of Finance peers and drive our Finance talent agenda within the organization, with a focus on local FP&A pipeline
6. You will work closely with the Marketing Excellence and PCM team on our Innovation agenda for all categories
7. As main business partner for our sustainability lead you will overlook the sustainability financials and work closely together with our Senior Director Sustainability MEU and Procurement Finance Director
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
8. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial planning and performance management including data collection and structuring, analysing, planning and reporting company financial performance across all financial KPIs and investment decisions and cost management to achieve financial targets
9. BUSINESS ACUMEN and understanding of our business, consumer packaged goods industry, and local snacking market dynamics. Relevant experience in a regional/local business
10. LEADERSHIP SKILLS including experience with business partnering and communication skills across a large regional or local public company
11. GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET and the ability to identify/execute opportunities and leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness
12. INTEGRITY and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations
More about this role
This is a location-free role in Europe.
What you need to know about this position:
The Manager Category Finance must have a collaborative style with the ability to build partnerships cross functionally and effectively influence. You will provide business decision support to management. You will provide FP&A support to the Senior Category Finance Manager MEU Bakery & Meals, the FP&A Director and the Central Marketing Innovation team MEU.
Main responsibilities:
Meals
Key business partner to the Sr Director Meals MEU, leading financial analysis and directing the Central Marketing team on innovations and strategic decisions;
13. Participate in the monthly Project Approval (PAM) Process through assessment and voting on various projects (Innovations/ Promotions/ Profitability/ Maintenance/ Productivities etc.)
14. Prepare regular innovation updates for Category and area Finance Leadership
15. Coordinate the post-evaluation process for recent new product launches. Support Marketing with BDM (Brand Dev. Meeting) presentations and framing the story.
16. Participate in monthly BDM’s, directing other project team functions (, BD teams) to improve functional decision making of our innovation pipeline and estimate financial impacts driven by different outstanding options.
Lead and coordinate FP&A activities for the Meals category;
17. Product hierarchy management, restatements and NPD tracking and analysis
18. Ensure budgeting and actuals for Meals are in line with company targets
19. Tracking and budget management of central A&C for Meals (monthly, AC, LE and major fc’s)
20. Drive process efficiencies and ways-of-working improvements
21. Promote financial knowledge and literacy to non-finance functions by providing advice and consulting
22. Responsible to manage a Genpact support for certain tasks,, innovation P&L preparation, ad hoc retrieves, monthly actuals deck etc.
23. Ad-hoc FP&A support
24. Finance pillar lead for finance topics within the Compass system project scope
Sustainability
25. Key business partner to the Sr Director Sustainability MEU, coordinating financial tracking for various sustainability streams;
26. Coordinate budgeting and Strategic Plan (SP) processes in Sustainability and Mindful Snacking related projects, with both Regional and Global teams
27. Central support to ensure robust finance assumptions received from x-functional teams are included for budgeting/SP
28. Partner with Proc. Finance to understand sustainability on-costs and ensure impacts are mitigated ensuring viability in the P&L
What you need to be successful in the role:
29. Understanding of PnL structure and variance analysis
30. Strong analytical, critical thinking, listening and communication skills
31. Presentation skills
32. Problem solving, multi-tasking skills and influencing skills with different departments
33. Self-motivated, proactive, organized
34. Very strong excel skills
35. Adaptability – responds resourcefully to new demands and challenges
36. Operating effectively in a changing environment and using initiative and personal resourcefulness
37. Collaborative approach
38. Coaching skills for other members of the team
39. Working knowledge of Finance systems (FIT, BI) and advanced user of MS excel
40. 5+ years working experience in Finance, Category and FP&A knowledge preferred
41. Using data to make recommendations and decisions
42. Fluent English skills
Innovation Excellence
43. Key business partner to the Marketing Excellence & PCM MEU
44. Be an active finance business partner for all categories to support our Marketers with sufficiency & efficiency of their projects and be their first point of contact
45. Understand the Innovation reporting in Accolade and respond to global requests
46. Define Hurdle rates for innovation and other projects and work closely on that with your manager
47. Improve ways of working for innovation projects across all categories and work together with the whole team on end-to-end processes
48. Understand our Innovation Dashboard and work together with Genpact and our COE for Reporting & Planning on the quarterly actual reporting of our Top Innovations
What you need to be successful in the role:
49. Strong analytical, critical thinking, listening and communication skills
50. Presentation skills
51. Problem solving, multi-tasking skills and influencing skills with different departments
52. Self-motivated, proactive, organized
53. Very strong excel skills
54. Adaptability – responds resourcefully to new demands and challenges
55. Operating effectively in a changing environment and using initiative and personal resourcefulness
56. Collaborative approach
57. Coaching skills for other members of the team
58. Working knowledge of Finance systems (FIT, BI) and advanced user of MS excel
Slovakia:
We pride ourselves on having a high performing and collaborative culture where we support your career and development. In return for your commitment, drive and enthusiasm, we offer salary starting from 3,900 € plus annual bonus payment based on your performance. The final offer will depend on the skills and previous experience of the candidate. We also offer top attractive benefits.
Relocation Support Available?
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Excited to grow your career?
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
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Job Type
Temporary (Fixed Term)Finance Planning & Performance ManagementFinance