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    Budget and Planning Section Manager - Bracknell, United Kingdom - Honda Motor Europe Ltd

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    At Honda we embrace inclusion in our various policies, so whilst our contracts state that the hours are as required to fulfil the role with a minimum of 35 hours per week, we offer flexibility for when you work. The regular office hours are 08:00 – 16:00 Monday to Thursday with a half hour lunch break & 08:00 – 13:00 on a Friday. However, we offer flexibility of when you work with our daily flex-time start of between 07:00 and 11:00 providing that there is no business requirement.

    Whilst there is no contractual right to work from home, the flexibility we offer is that you can request to work from home for a maximum of 50% of the working days in any one month, again providing there is no business requirement to attend the office.

    Role:

    This role sits within the Honda Motor Europe (HME) Business Planning and Reporting team and is responsible for the management and delivery of the Customer Division budgeting function.

    In this role, working with the Finance team, you will create and maintain a consistent budgeting function across the region, provide direction and support to cost centre managers, and analyse results to investigate variances, and identify efficiencies and best practice across the region.

    The role holder will need to work closely with all areas of the Customer Division business to understand future direction and specific plans and understand the impact on the business – both operational and financial. They will also work closely with HME Finance team.

    This is a role where accuracy and strong attention to detail is key.

    European travel is required for this role.

    Main Responsibilities:

  • Working with Customer Division (CD) Top Management to understand business direction and financial parameters for the Divisional operation.
  • Support Divisional General Manager (GM) in the preparation of budget event approval presentations by consolidating all CD cost centres and providing analysis and commentary.
  • Harmonising the CD budgeting formats and processes across the region, to ensure a consistent and effective financial reporting function and continually assessing the budgeting process to drive improved quality and efficiency. This will require close working with the HME Finance team.
  • Ensuring Customer Division meet all the requirements at Budget events and provide accurate and timely submissions, within the criteria set out by Finance division.
  • Working closely with Heads of Technical, Automobile Quality, Product Compliance & Sustainability, Training, Digital After Sales, Network Operations and Branches to provide direction and support in the preparation and delivery of regular budget events and consolidating the submissions on behalf of the Division.
  • Working alongside HME Finance to provide specialist expertise to budget holders and evaluators on all budget and financial information, reporting, and requirements.
  • Working with Finance, establish the most effective way (people, processes, systems) of analysing the financial results and investigating variances to plan with cost centre managers and identifying best practice and the areas to improve performance and accuracy.
  • When necessary, develop and enhance processes and procedures for CD budget holders to follow.
  • Drive accountability for and monitor progress towards achievement of targets through regular meetings with the business.
  • Ensure CD budgets comply with internal compliance.
  • Own the relationship with the HME Finance team to coordinate budgeting activity and provide performance analysis.
  • Mentor and coach the Commercial Specialist to develop their financial acumen and business understanding.

  • Qualifications, skills and experience:
    Required

  • A high degree of experience to allow effective management divisional budgeting across the European region.
  • Commercial background preferably with Pan European experience.
  • Proven leadership and influencing qualities and capable of inspiring and giving direction to other associates, including senior management.
  • Self-motivated and confident personality with excellent communication skills at all levels.
  • A "customer first" thinker.
  • High attention to detail.
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills – particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
  • European travel is an essential part of this role, as well as representing Customer Division in HME internal meetings.

  • Desirable

  • A good understanding of the Car, Motorcycle and Power Products Industry in Europe, and the opportunities and challenges ahead.
  • Experience of collaborating with others in diverse geographical locations.
  • Full understanding of strategic direction, combined with commercial thinking and organisational capabilities.
  • Honda is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in the workplace for all employees, temporary workers, contractors, applicants and visitors. Honda also encourages respect for the individual differences and talents of others while making full use of one's own abilities, based on Honda's philosophy of respect for the individual.

    At Honda, we value and celebrate diversity and are committed to being a fair, non-discriminatory company that promotes and welcomes the uniqueness and differences of people around the world. We recognise that a diverse workforce allows for different ideas and perspectives, and we encourage everyone to share them. We strive to foster a culture of belonging that is consistent with Honda's core values and lived out in the way we work and respect each other. For us at Honda, diversifying our workforce means increasing its overall strength by providing people with equal opportunities - regardless of personal characteristics or previous careers.

    This commitment flows directly from the Honda philosophy and the belief that we are all working towards a common goal. Honda recruits, hires, trains and promotes the most qualified/experienced individuals at all levels without regard to race, origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability or any other protected characteristic.


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