Category Finance Manager - Slough, United Kingdom - TALENT FORTE LIMITED

TALENT FORTE LIMITED

Verified Company

Slough, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you an ambitious Category Finance Manager? Would you be Interested in joining a FTSE 20 FMCG helping to commercially manage a global category that has £2bn of net revenue.

We are looking for x 2 data driven, commercially minded, Category Finance Managers to join one of the UK's leading Plc's with global HQ based near Reading, Berkshire and on the outskirts of London with a satellite office in West London.

Qualifications:

You must be Qualified CIMA/ACCA/ACA/CPA, with +3 years Industrial / Commercial 'Blue Chip' background along with the motivation to work in a challenging environment that rewards strong performers and provides a steppingstone for genuine career development
Commercially minded; data driven, with the ability to read into the data to make hypothesis and conclusions to assist the marketing teams with e.g., margin analysis and pricing etc
Ideally Global category experience

The Prime responsibility is to prepare and analyse financial information for the group's centrally located Category Development Organisation (CDO).

The purpose of Category Finance is to drive the earnings model in the medium & long term through strong financialplanning & financially well executed Innovation.

Responsibilities:

Work with Cat Finance Director to build systems/reports & processes to support a strong 3 5year Category finance plan
Work with the Category team to build & review P&Ls for innovation & development that drive the model as defined in the 5YP including seeding P&L reviews
Provide Group Marketing (the Category Team) a monthly update & analysis of the performance of their brands worldwide, including squeeze/fuel impacts & GM improvement roadmaps
Generation and Production of the Monthly Management Reporting Pack containing Product and Geographical Splits
Support in the roll out and Training of new Global Reporting system to the Category Teams
Support the Category team in managing systems of Business Intelligence to support category financial tracking of performance and innovation

Hybrid: 3 days in office 2 days from home but must be able to work in Berkshire. Working in Paddington should be seen as a bonus