Customer Finance Analyst 6 Month FTC

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Why join our team? 

pladis was established in June 2016 and brings together the much loved, global brands of Godiva, McVitie’s, Ulker, and DeMet’s under one pladis umbrella, to form a global giant in biscuits, chocolate, and confectionary. The UK & return on investment pladis region employs 5,000 people across 13 locations in the UK & return on investment (nine manufacturing / distribution sites and four office locations), and is an anchor market for the business.

Please note: This role is on an initial 6 month FTC with the potential to convert to a permanent position.

What will this role achieve? 

The UK & return on investment has ambitious plans, Customer Finance act as a hardworking and honest business partner to help the business build robust external relationships and improve internal value creation and ensure the Customer teams develop a better understanding of both consumer and trade dynamics to build more effective strategies. Reporting into the Senior Customer Finance Manager, You will support on driving the rituals and routines necessary to understand performance, deliver insightful and useful financial analysis, maintain rigorous financial control and evaluation processes to support the Customer team with customer investment decisions.

What will be your key deliverables?

• Frequent collaboration with the accounts team, providing encouraging challenge and valuable insight while ensuring ongoing continual improvement.
• Work with the Customer team to drive better understanding of the drivers of performance (including trends, channel/customer profitability and understanding of external retailer landscape and dynamics) and develop GAP fill opportunities.
• Ensuree a regular rhythm of business performance diagnostics, the annual & strategic planning process & DOP/ Forecast process.
• Support customer discussions by preparing Joint business plan evaluations with a more for more mentality to improve the investment as well as modelling customer P&L’s.
• Support on pricing investment, tracking of delivery & P&L management of accruals.
• Implement pre & post evaluation of TI investment made to optimise returns.

What do you need for this role? 

• A passion for business performance management & analytics
• A strong collaborator and communicator
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively across the organisation
• Ability to work optimally in an ambiguous and changing role and able to drive agenda forward
• Self-confidence and skill to challenge the most senior leaders in the business
• Strong financial and commercial competence built over a 5-year minimum career
• Advanced MS Excel, PPT
• A qualified (or part) accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
• Experience in an FMCG finance position is desirable

OUR WINNING TRAITS AND BEHAVIOURS 

Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite

Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied and never standing still

Collaborative - Willing to work with others for mutual success.

Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner and persistent in the face of setbacks

Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the world – and this diversity is our great strength.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation

pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.