Twinings
Group Financial Planning & Analysis Manager
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Application Deadline: 23 August 2022 Department: Finance Location: Andover
Description
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Are you searching for a career with bags of variety, in an environment that celebrates differences and empowers collaboration, which values individuals 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.
Purpose
The FP&A Manager plays a critical role in supporting the continuous improvement of the performance and growth of the Twinings Ovo business by providing a key link between the businesses and the Twinings Ovo Group leadership team.
The role is responsible for partnering with a number of Twinings Ovo Business Units maintaining a detailed understanding of their performance, commercial challenges and operations and using this to provide genuine commercial insight regarding possible opportunities for growth or further development to both the markets and the Twinings Ovo leadership team.
In addition the role will have responsibility for aspects of the group’s planning and financial tracking activities.
The role requires an ambitious individual with a high degree of analytical rigour, very strong commercial mindset, and ability to elevate outlook to strategic insight and recommendations, influencing at the highest level.
Scope
A global billion-pound turnover beverage business with 10 international Business Units (BUs), and complex international supply chains. The role will necessitate regular international travel.
Key Responsibilities
BU related:
- Acts as a business analyst for a number of the Group’s Business Units, with specific responsibility for maintaining “business partner” relationship with BU management, developing a close understanding of the levers and financial performance of the BU ensuring there are no surprises.
- Provides high quality financial and commercial resource to BU and group management supporting the delivery of the business agenda.
- Supports CEO and CFO in reviews with Business Units.
- Provides genuine and thought-leading insight and recommendations to BU and leadership team by developing a comprehensive understanding of the BU, market within which they operate, consumer dynamics, competitive responses, and the strategic options and direction.
Group Planning / Forecasting / Reporting related:
- Plays a vital role in the group’s planning, budgeting & forecasting processes, including synthesising insight and analysis from reporting systems data.
- Leads or supports the build of CEO/CFO quarterly presentations to ABF board.
- Reviews period reporting from BUs and of Group Finance teams’ first level control & analysis, pulling together top line summary to ABF.
- Responsible for the design of value-adding reporting processes and analysis tools for the group and providing direction to Group Finance team in maintaining those processes.
- Anticipates the information requirements of senior leadership team and works with the BU’s to meet these requirements
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Project / capability related:
- Leads or provides functional lead on major projects across the group, including investment and acquisition evaluations, business development, efficiency reviews, strategic initiatives etc.
- Reviews and inputs to the evaluation of capital projects and marketing investments, providing insight and recommendations to senior Twinings Ovo & ABF management.
- Facilitates and supports business-wide functional agenda to build finance partnering capabilities, and improving awareness and skills throughout the group, including sharing of best practice. This can cover areas such as marketing ROI, price realisation, NPD evaluations, cost efficiencies, in addition to generic partnering/influencing skills.
- Develops and maintains a broad network of key working relationships across the business.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
- Significant commercial experience including business planning & analysis
- Previous experience of working with senior non-finance managers
- Experienced in providing complex business information to senior management
- Experience of project evaluation (eg supply, overhead)
- Experience of critically reviewing effectiveness of investments with less predictable returns (eg marketing)
- Understanding of differing pricing strategies
- Experience of reviewing or audit of control environments
- Advanced Excel and Powerpoint skills
- Relevant financial qualification
- Project management experience helpful
- Experience of working in a decentralised and/or matrix business desirable
- FMCG experience desirable
- High drive/ambition, with rapid career progression and FD potential
- Strong technical finance ability
- Demonstrable commercial awareness and acumen
- Understands the business, and the market within which it operates
- Highly analytical and detail conscious, whilst being able to spot trends, digest information quickly and distil issues effectively
- Possess the ability to ‘bring the outside in
- Knows how to balance autonomy and collaboration
- Demonstrable passion for excellence and results
- Comfortable in the detail, and at the top level
- Ability to develop great relationships with stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent influencing and engagement skills
- High levels of curiosity with a thirst for knowledge
- Great presentation skills – able to make complex simple
- Highly self-motivated
- Ability to challenge, and be challenged, in a constructive way
- Culturally aware – able to demonstrate flexibility in approach when dealing with an international client group
- Takes ownership & responsibility
- Intellectual rigour, highly analytical
- Tenacious & resilient
- Strong skills in data manipulation and data analysis
- Potential international mobility
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TWININGS OVO VALUES
Aim high
- Strive to deliver results of which they can be truly proud;
- Relentlessly seek to improve ideas and plans;
- See the potential in situations; often where others do not;
- Respect intuition and experience, as well as hard data;
- Demonstrate rigour and discipline in their thinking, planning and execution;
- Always do what they say they will do.
Freedom to act and scope for growth
- Have genuine respect for the views, talents and expertise of colleagues; trust in their motivation, believe in them to get the job done;
- Take responsibility, make things happen, and seize the initiative;
- Learn from their mistakes;
- Take responsibility for their own development, and help others grow.
Find new ways
- Are willing to experiment; take calculated risks and challenge the status quo;
- Seek or create the best solutions; find creative ways around road blocks;
- Thrive in a changing, often ambiguous environment;
- Show agility and adaptability.
Look outside
- Learn from other business units, markets, competitors, customers and consumers;
- Look to other industries and a wide range of data sources for ideas and inspiration;
- Show active interest in other teams; are happy to take others' ideas and build on them.
Collaborate
- Go out of their way to help each other to be successful and share information freely;
- Seek others' inputs and challenges; openly share their own views;
- Work freely across the organisation's hierarchy and structure;
- Work to ensure that one plus one is three or more;
- Give constructive, challenging, straight-forward and timely feedback.
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
If you think this role sounds like your cup of tea, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply below.
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