Supply Finance Controller (FMCG) at Robert Walters

Responsibilities:

Reporting and Performance Management

• Timely preparation of weekly and monthly performance report, Quarterly Performance Reviews, investigation of exceptions and working with the teams to design and implement corrective action plans.
• Report on periodic variances vs. planned and Provide commentary on key variances/business drivers and any actions required.
• Provision of monthly gross margin variance analysis reports on all SKUs with above + 5%
• Driving performance management in Supply across COGS, Inventory and Capex, ensuring transparency, accuracy and delivery of targets

Business Partnering

• Provide business partnering support to the Supply Chain team on key initiatives
• Ensure Supply Team and Sales & Marketing teams are aligned on COGS and demand/supply planning & forecasts
• Good relationship with Plant Managers team to have a thorough understanding of manufacturing key drivers to improve cost of sales
• Build strong and effective working relationships with Supply Chain Director & across Supply chain functions to ensure impactful, workable, sustainable solutions are rolled out across the business

Planning and Budgeting

• Lead the preparation of the financial plans (Budget/Rolling Forecast) for Supply chain teams and 5 year strategic planning process.
• Develop and track annual & monthly COGS & Capex.
• Timely submission of credible planning assumptions for budgeting and forecasting purposes i.e. COGS, Efficiency factor etc.

Projects

• Finance lead for all supply chain projects with pre-evaluation and conducting post evaluation after implementation. By performing credible investment appraisals such as return on investment and pay back and one or two additional key performance indicators to gauge efficiency and effectiveness of the project.

Overheads Control

• Proper and rigorous control of overheads across supply chain to ensure no loss of control resulting in overspends. This should be done through training of functional managers as well as reviews with the Supply Chain director

Experience:

• 12 years’ experience in a supply finance function of a FMCG
• First Degree in Accounting plus ACA/ACCA