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Position title: Finance Manager (FP&A standardisation)

Location: Manchester area (Cheadle) or London (Hammersmith)

Reports to: Head of FP&A

Contract type: Permanent, full-time, hybrid working system

Your Role & Team in a Nutshell

As a Finance Manager, you will play a pivotal role during our organisational transition regarding system harmonisation. You’ll focus on enhancing our operational efficiency and unifying financial procedures.

Your journey will involve two key objectives:

• firstly, to standardise processes, language, and tools across various categories as far as possible, and

• secondly, to engage actively in the deployment of our core SAP system within segments currently using alternative systems.

You will be part of our EMEA & Asia Financial Planning & Analysis team, overseeing one direct report.

We will help you achieve your goals and develop by providing regular feedback and access to online training courses.

Your Key Responsibilities:

Regional BI reporting:

• Ownership of recently developed BI tools for the region and continuous improvement of their accuracy.

• Develop and oversee regional Power BI reports supporting finance and commercial activities.

• Ensure data integrity and maintain system hierarchies, collaborating with clusters to enhance understanding and usage.

• Educate on the importance of hierarchies and facilitate their quality improvement.

Strategic decision and support:

• Collaborate with regional FP&A and Commercial Finance teams for process and system enhancements.

• Act as a liaison between corporate and local teams to standardise P&L reporting.

• Participate in standardising customer programming across categories.

• Develop future reporting methods for business decision support.

Long-term improvement of reporting capabilities:

• Work with Global IT and Analytics teams to prioritize key IT tools implementation in the EMEA & Asia region.

• Partner with the global team to transition local solutions to corporate tools (e.g., Customer Forecasting Tool to Anaplan).

• Support SAP implementations, Legal Entity Rationalisation project, other projects with a focus on continuous improvements.

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What You’ll Need

Minimum:

• Demonstrated experience in finance and/or FP&A roles, including international complex project management.

• Proficiency in Power BI with basic programming knowledge.

• Good command of MS Office application, with advanced Excel skills

• Excellent understanding of P&L dynamics, particularly customer programming

• Solid understanding of database management and master data hierarchies.

Your advantage:

• Knowledge of SAP

• Proven track record of successfully managing international complex improvement projects.

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills to engage stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, effectively communicate project benefits and expectations, and coordinate inputs for project delivery.

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to output quality.

What You Gain

Newell Brands has a strong footprint in the EMEA region, with several thousand employees spread over many corporate offices and manufacturing facilities. You might recognise some of our iconic brands, like Parker, Sistema, Spontex, Crockpot, NUK, Coleman, and Yankee Candle, to name a few.

Join us and benefit from:

• Flexible hybrid working system (on average 3 days in the office and 2 days at home p.w.)

• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning – 17,000+ courses for your professional and personal development

• Corporate Citizenship Philosophies – environmentally sustainable and socially sensitive business practices

• Discounts on some of our products from brands Parker, DYMO, Sharpie, Contigo, and others

• Employee Referral Program – an opportunity to get a bonus

• Global Service Anniversary Program – recognition of milestone service anniversaries and birthdays

• Give@Newell – paid time-off for charity activities dedicated for local communities right where you live/work

• Access to Employee Resource Groups that foster Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

• Core Values: Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership, Leadership

Are you interested?

If so, please click on “Apply Online” on this site and upload your CV in English.

If your application is shortlisted, our recruiter will invite you for an initial phone interview.

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