Manager Finance - Supply Chain at RS Hunter Limited

Our Client

Our Client, a renowned multinational firm within the FMCG industry wishes to engage the services of a Manager Finance - Supply Chain who shall be in charge of:

Purpose: 

• To lead the creation & establishment of Best-In-Class Supply Chain Finance Department and support the training and development of the Supply Chain Finance Team, playing a critical role in increasing finance awareness within Supply Chain partners. 
• Lead the Supply Chain Business Performance Management (BPM) process across the company to ensure the business plan is attained or over-delivered. 
• Provide rigorous and sound analysis of business performance along with drivers across COGS, Inventory, and CAPEX. Also, providing Risks & Opportunities to plan along with Outlooks/LE. 
• Co-lead the annual Supply Chain Financial Planning process attaining stretching targets to be translated in YOY COGs reductions, CAPEX optimisation & Inventory reduction. 
• Develop & Drive capabilities and common Ways Of Workings across Supply Chain Finance and overall Supply Chain community, included, but not limited, to Systems & Processes effectiveness/optimisation. 
• Success in this senior management role will be the catapult for further career development within the group.

Leadership and Functional Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Head of Supply Chain Finance & Functional Head of Supply Chain to ensure the financial delivery of plans and address proactively opportunities along with mitigation of risks
• Working closely with the Supply Chain team on Business Performance Measurement and Strategy to Action monitoring.

Demonstrates the following leadership and functional capabilities:

• A key financial leader who must interact effectively across a wide range of stakeholders, driving along business performance and financial planning within supply.
• Credible and persuasive with senior teams up to Managing Director level.
• Plays a critical role in financial coaching, increasing financial capabilities in both supply chain finance and supply community

Leadership Capabilities: 

Ideas- developing:

• Adopts a range of approaches to get things done. 
• Generates ideas for improvements to existing ways of working.

Edge - baseline:

• Moves urgently to action with a focus on outputs.
• Maintains drive without support from others.
• Focus on quick wins without missing lasting and sustainable solutions

 People Performance - developing:

• Positive attitude towards people development
• Ability to coach and train people
• Instilling the Think, Decide, Act approach

 Emotional Energy - developing:

• Embraces change and takes ownership for driving initiatives in their area.
• Demonstrates emotional energy through a self confident approach and the ability to create positive energy in others

Top Accountabilities:

• Address with the Head of Supply Chain Finance the establishment of the Supply Chain Finance department addressing the  Supply Chain Business Performance agenda within the company; providing concise, quality management information on key business drivers 
• Provider of insightful supply/commercial analysis of business performance issues and opportunities. Drive resolution of issues and hold people to account for follow through on actions that will result in optimal & added value business performance.
• Responsible for the timely and accurate preparation of the monthly Supply BPM pack, Risks & Opportunities (R&O) and strategic plan packs which guarantee full integrity of the company's financials 
• Act as a true finance business partner to the different Functional Head of Supply Chain function by providing value-added analysis to correct course or create value
• Develop a culture of data accuracy and integrity across all financial information such as COGS, SKU costing, CAPEX, inventory, etc
• Ensure financial accounting within remit (COGS, Inventory & CAPEX) are accurate at ledger level and in compliance with IFRS.

Requirements

Qualifications / Skills:

• Qualified accountant / ACCA / Chartered Accountant. 
• 12 years cognate experience within the FMCG industry leading or co-leading the Supply Chain Finance department (e.g. BPM, COGS, CAPEX & Inventory). 
• Extensive experience using ERP and data mining/base tools (e.g. SAP/BW or other) along with Advanced Excel spreadsheet for modelling and reporting. 
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills along with project management skills in a cross-functional/cultural team setting. 
• Demonstrable experience of establishing credibility, influencing and working at senior management levels along with self starter, high commitment, delivering against goals with minimal supervision – ability to hit the ground running. 
• Capable of coaching, training and developing people along with influencing stakeholders in order to execute flawless change-management projects. 
• Able to lead and energise others through personal impact across organisation, providing at all time challenges to Status Quo and building upon them.

Behaviours:

• Takes responsibility and shows clear ownership.
• Committed to achieving results in a high-pressure environment. 
• Strong drive and energy, pro-active self-starter. 
• Able to work as part of a team applying principles of coaching and development. 
• Ability to network and quickly build effective relationships. 
• Ability to influence people and get things done.