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To business partner with the Procurement function to support the commercial performance and maximise the value creation. In addition, the role will support the functions financial performance, through the provision of high-quality financial planning, forecasting, budgeting and analysis.
Job Responsibility:
Provide strong business partnering with the procurement function and the wider business
Support all aspects of governance, savings reporting, budgeting, and forecasting
Build partnerships and maintain strong relationships - demonstrate an ability to listen, interpret, influence, negotiate and challenge
Challenge Procurement stakeholders to improve financial, commercial and operational performance and respond quickly and effectively to any problems or adverse trends
Support Category teams and sub-regional Procurement teams in identification of value creation opportunities through providing commercial, operational and financial challenge and insights
Drafting monthly forecast assumptions for key procurement categories, including understanding, and communicating the impact on wider Group financials, identifying risks and opportunities
Support the budgeting, forecasting, and planning processes for Procurement
Support the preparation of monthly reports for the Procurement Leadership Team and wider stakeholder meetings
Support the reduction working capital across the business, ensuring the execution of plans to deliver agreed targets from a procurement perspective
Support tight financial control over the Group Procurement Financial budget and the savings reporting tool, to ensure it is compliant with all internal control requirements
Builds partnerships and maintains strong relationships with the ability to listen, interpret, influence, negotiate, inspire, and challenge
Interpret and succinctly communicate insights and findings from analysis and test and learn opportunities to optimise business processes
Identify and share improved ways of working to increase output and process simplification
Requirements:
Ability to work collaboratively across teams
Effective communication skills at all levels of an organisation
Sound finance background
Advanced Excel skills and PPT skills, able to draw conclusions and influence decisions
Sound analytical skills, with the ability to add actionable insight to data
Problem-solving focus
Result-oriented, having a track record of high performance and examples of delivering results
Graduate calibre
3+ years of proven experience in accounting in a matrix multinational environment