Description
Great People Work Here
Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values people and will encourage you to make an impact? Do you want the freedom to explore, and the opportunities to find new ways and to innovate? If so, TwiningsOvo delivers.
We’re looking for people who don’t just come here to get the job done, but who have a real passion for the brand and a desire to do the best job they can. In return, we offer an inspiring package of employee benefits - to show just how much we value you. This role will offer you the scope for growth and the tools to aim high.
Key Responsibilities
Blending the best of local agility, connected technology and global simplification to deliver new possibilities and insights that will fuel our future growth. This role provides a unique opportunity to be part of the Group Finance function, transforming financial planning and reporting globally across TwiningsOvo using SAP Analytics Cloud.
The Finance Business Process Owner owns and continuously improves global financial FP&A processes for TwiningsOvo. This hybrid role manages and prioritises business change requests (working with the SAC Developer through to delivery) and acts as a business analyst to ensure data integrity across tools and platforms used. The role ensures financial planning and reporting is accurate, efficient, scalable, and aligned with business needs and technology capabilities globally.
You will ensure global FP&A standards are met through SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and drive adoption of standardised processes across all business units through training and upskilling. You will also optimise SAC processes to support both the business units and Group Finance, enabling efficient, system-driven planning and reporting across TwiningsOvo. Working closely with the other Finance Business Process Owner to ensure a true FP&A solution covering both planning and reporting is delivered. You will make recommendations and drive decisions on standardisation, prioritisation, and ways of working, bringing stakeholders to agreement and maintaining governance once changes are embedded. Success requires proactive ownership: independently driving actions to conclusion, tracking benefits/adoption, and escalating, when necessary, with clear options and a recommended path forward.
Process Ownership & Governance:
* Jointly own and govern end to end financial planning processes with Group FP&A
* Lead the design and rollout of the global FP&A SAC tool to deliver measurable business benefits.
* Collaborate with finance and senior leaders to ensure the financial planning landscape aligns with both strategic objectives and operational needs for TwiningsOvo.
* Champion the use of SAP to deliver standardized and user-friendly financial planning and reporting across global business units.
* Partner with Group FP&A to drive best-practice principles aligned to ABF requirements, end to end data, reporting and planning.
Data Management & Master Data:
* Pro-actively work closely with business units and group FP&A to identify gaps or inaccuracies in global master data structures impacting FP&A (e.g., chart of accounts, cost centres, profit centres) and ensure they support global requirements.
* Collaborate with Group Finance to understand expected changes from either ABF or senior leadership which may impact global master data. Ensuring SAC meets the needs and driving any changes that arise through to completion.
* Support the BUs and group finance to drive the consistency and integrity of financial data through system accountability.
* Collaborate with data governance teams to ensure data integrity and consistency.
Stabilising & Driving Adoption of Financial Planning in SAC:
* Proactively own and drive the adoption of standardized global FP&A practices across all business units and regions.
* Monitor, understand and report on monthly key performance indicators (KPIs) to track adoption progress and ensure the systems are being fully utilized across global business units.
* Identify areas for improvement and optimisation through discussion with local business units.
* Challenge existing business processes and ways of working to ensure we fully leverage the system’s capabilities and deliver simpler, more effective processes through influencing and partnering.
* Ownership of global planning training repository to support adoption globally, keeping training material up to date for any changes, and utilising AI tools where beneficial to support user training.
Continuous Improvement & Transformation of financial planning:
* Gather, document, and validate business requirements for enhancements, system improvements, and automation opportunities.
* Translate financial planning and data needs into clear functional specifications for developers, system administrators, and IT partners.
* Support solution design, testing, and rollout of enhancements; identify process inefficiencies and lead improvement initiatives through to completion.
* Champion automation, standardization, and digitization across FP&A processes.
* Own delivery plans and timelines for continuous improvement of the FP&A solution.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:
* Build strong relationships with business leaders and key stakeholders to understand their end-to-end data, reporting and planning needs and drive alignment with global finance objectives.
* Champion the transformation programme throughout the organisation and other initiatives that are in-flight at the same time.
* Act as a liaison between finance users and technical teams, ensuring that solutions meet business needs.
* Escalate strategic, cross-GPO issues as needed to the GPO for further escalation as required.
* Conduct training and change management support for process and tool rollouts to drive adoption of FP&A.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* Minimum 5 years’ experience in Finance, including commercial financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and reporting.
* Operational experience in designing and delivering change / continuous business process improvements.
* Strong organisational skills and a proactive approach.
Ability to work in a fast-changing environment and deal well with ambiguity.
* Excellent relationship-building, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
* Strong presentation, facilitation, and communication skills; comfortable delivering training.
* Ability to lead regular meetings, ensuring goals are met and actions are completed.
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders across multiple regions.
* Strong analytical capability, with confidence working across finance processes and enabling technology.
* Proven track record of challenging the status quo and delivering results.
* Passionate about the company’s vision for its future and being part of the journey to get there.
* Highly credible with strong business acumen.
* Experience in project planning, project management and delivery Experience in financial planning process design.
* Experience working with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), or similar financial planning tools.
* Strong understanding of global finance master data structures (e.g., chart of accounts, cost centres, profit centres).
* Knowledge of data governance / master data management practices and operating models.
* Experience using process mapping and continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma).
Benefits
* Yearly bonus based on personal contribution and financial performance
* Flexible working options
* 25 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays and the option to buy and sell holidays
* Onsite Gym and Wellbeing Centre
* Perkbox – employee discount scheme with discounts online, in high street stores, cinema, holidays, restaurants and many more
* Pension scheme with your contributions matched for up to 10% of your salary
* Cycle to work scheme
* SimplyHealth Cash plan
* Onsite Staff shop and online staff discounts
* Electric Car Scheme
* Access to LinkedIn Learning
* Access to ABF Networking, connect, collaborate, and grow across the ABF Group.
Twinings has become one of the world’s most renowned tea companies over its 300-year history because we never stop learning, never stop experimenting and never stop inventing. We take pride in our tea from bud to cup and have been working with some of our tea estates around the world since the early 18th Century.
More than 300 years later, the love of tea is still here - and so are we! We still sell tea from Thomas’s shop, and we still work hard to bring the most innovative new blends to tea lovers around the world. Now, we have over 500 varieties and our teas are cherished all over the world. Our expert master blenders taste more than 3,000 cups of tea every week. So you can be sure the next cup you taste will be every bit as good as the one yesterday or the day before.
Our approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
At TwiningsOvo, we believe in the power of diversity to drive innovation and meaningful work. We are committed to building a workplace where people from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences feel safe, valued, have a sense of belonging and are empowered to thrive. Inclusion is more than a goal, it’s how we work together every day. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against an applicant on the basis of their ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability, neurodiversity, age, socioeconomic background or any other status protected by law and are committed to promoting diversity across our workplace.
Applicants may be entitled to reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Equality Act. A reasonable adjustment is a change in the way things are typically done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity.
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