Senior Commercial Finance Manager, Cold/Convenience

CocaCola

West London
35,000-39,999 per annum
March 21, 2019
Permanent

About the Job:

From a secret recipe to a bold idea and very proud traditions, we build the future. Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) is a major fast-moving consumer goods business in Europe and the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler. Across 13 countries, our employees make, sell and distribute the world’s most loved drinks brands to more than 300 million people. Some of the brands you will find in our portfolio are Coca-Cola®, Fanta®, Powerade®, Glaceau Vitaminwater®, Monster® and Capri-Sun®.

Leading brands, great people, growth and the reward that comes with it: the raw materials for success are right here. But still, success depends on our skilled management sharing thirst: a thirst for getting more and better from our people and systems, a thirst for pushing limits, and a thirst for the rigour and challenge of a fast moving business.

Do you have a personality with the power to influence and connect?

Can you sustain the pace to keep on growing?

Will you make an impact with your desire to win?

Senior Commercial Finance Manager, Cold/Convenience

Uxbridge- Some travel may be required.

What you become a part of

Working as the Senior Manager within the Cold Channel Commercial Finance team, you will be the primary finance contact for key business units within the sales organisation. The role requires a finance leader to act as a business partner to the channel, providing first class decision support and analysis whilst ensuring that all commercial finance accountabilities are delivered effectively and in full. This role provides an opportunity to influence and lead change within one of the key focus areas of our business. This role provides an excellent opportunity to influence, lead change, and develop future strategies to grow the business.

What to expect

• To be the primary finance business partner for multiple Cold (Convenience) channel customers

o Develop effective and mutually beneficial relationships in order to support and influence key commercial decisions

o Develop in depth knowledge of the commercial environment to ultimately drive increased value and profitability

• To effectively manage the P&L and balance sheet for your key customers

o To support the sales team to ensure that off invoice investments and accruals are accounted for correctly and within the appropriate guidelines

o To ensure that the month end process runs smoothly

o To proactively support working capital visibility and improvement initiatives

• To evaluate and make recommendations on significant business proposals

o To manage complex analysis projects (including the implementation of strategic initiatives), evaluate findings and make recommendations about the financial implications of proposed investments

o To proactively analyse effectiveness of promotions and customer investments

o To support business proposals for potential new customers

o To support customer revenue and pricing discussions

• To provide insight and analysis into the performance of the channel

o Provide financial leadership, guidance and insights

o To identify trends impacting year to date, rest of year and full year performance of the channel, be able to articulate these trends and make recommendations to the channel team in order to drive business performance

• To undertake planning and forecasting

o To support the annual planning process, ensuring that key pack and customer strategies are accurately reflected and built on robust assumptions

o To support the ongoing rolling estimate forecast, ensuring positive contributions made to the S&OP process

• Leadership:

o Within this role you will be responsible for 1 direct report.

o Ensure that personal development and performance management routines are applied

o Set challenging but deliverable performance objectives

o You will also be required to mentor and coach the managers and analysts within the team

o Recruitment of high calibre, talented individuals when there are vacancies within the team

Qualifications

What we expect of you

• Minimum 5 years post qualified experience (CIMA / ACA / ACCA)

• Minimum 3 years working within a commercial finance environment, preferably within a FMCG company

• Intermediate/Advanced MS Office Suite Skills, especially Powerpoint & Excel (including pivot tables, charts etc)

• Analytical, improvement focused and problem solving mindset

• Leading a team and or line management

• Developed influencing capability, proven across all levels

• Effective communicating skills and ability to communicate with impact. This will involve being able to tailor message styles to different situations and audiences appropriately

• Proactively drives and embraces change

• Understanding of the link between FMCG suppliers, retailers and wholesalers

Application

If this role is of interest to you please upload a recent copy of your CV and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.

www.cokecce.com/careers

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