Perrigo
Finance Business Partner - Nordics
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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to join the Perrigo Finance team - based either in London or Stockholm.
This role provides finance leadership within the Nordics Management team, partnering with commercial leaders to deliver Net Revenue and Operating Income. Acting as a trusted advisor to the business, the role brings full P&L visibility and insight by connecting data from multiple reporting systems, including Power Query, Power BI, Workday Adaptive, SAP, and CFIN, and translating it into clear recommendations for informed decision-making. The role combines strong commercial business partnering with robust forecasting, planning, and governance, and a genuine value-add mentality. It requires the ability to work at pace, demonstrating strong time management, planning, and prioritisation skills to ensure deadlines are consistently met and outputs are delivered to a high standard across the Nordics consumer business.
Scope of the Role
Business Partnering
- Provide finance leadership within the Nordics Management team to support the delivery of Net Revenue, Operating Income, and Working Capital targets.
- Collaborate closely with the commercial team (Nordics Market Lead, Sales Manager, Marketing Manager) to provide financial insight into pricing strategies, G2N and A&P investment, product launches, and improved mix.
- Regularly evaluate risks and opportunities, driving action to maximise financial outcomes.
- Effectively communicate the financial position and insights to Cluster and Corporate management, providing recommendations for informed decision-making.
- Accountable for the weekly and monthly operating income forecast with a high level of forecast accuracy.
- Ensure compliance with SOX and company policies in all commercial finance activities within the Nordics consumer business.
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Budgeting and Forecasting
- Oversee the annual bottom-up Budgeting process for the Nordics consumer business, ensuring it aligns with company objectives and optimises investment and resource allocation.
- Support the monthly rolling S&OE/IBP process, turning demand plans into a rolling financial P&L across volume, sales, margin, and cost drivers.
- Partner with Cluster FP&A to ensure assumptions across volume, price, mix, margin, cost of goods, freight, and promotional spend are robust, clearly documented, and accurately reflected in the plan.
Value-Add Approach
- Lead projects aimed at improving the commercial P&L, reducing operational costs, and enhancing overall efficiency within the organisation.
- Develop and deliver training programmes to the commercial teams (finance for non-finance), ensuring they are equipped with the necessary skills and knowledge to excel in their roles.
- Deliver ad hoc analysis and scenario modelling of value-add initiatives to support key business decisions.
- Own the Nordics numbers presented, ensuring a clear understanding of what has changed, why it has changed, and how key movements impact the commercial forecast and reporting outputs.
- Build knowledge of the system to identify opportunities for process improvement and use this expertise to support and train the wider team.
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Experience Required
- Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) with previous experience in commercial finance, FP&A, or business partnering within a fast-paced, commercially focused environment, and a strong understanding of financial planning, forecasting, and performance reporting.
- Strong analytical capability, with a proven ability to interpret and interrogate complex data, perform detailed reconciliations, identify key drivers, and constructively challenge assumptions where results do not align with expectations.
- Confident working across multiple financial and reporting systems, including SAP, Adaptive, Power BI, Power Query, and Visual Fabriq, with the ability to connect data sources and support accurate reporting outputs.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively with senior and junior stakeholders across finance and non-finance teams, translating financial insight into practical business understanding.
- Proactive, positive, and solution-oriented, with a willingness to take ownership, learn quickly, and contribute to continuous improvement across processes, reporting, and ways of working.
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