Senior Customer Finance Manager

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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What will this role achieve?

The UK&I has ambitious plans; Customer Finance act as a hardworking and strong business partners helping the customer team build robust external relationships, improve internal value creation and leverage enhanced understanding of consumer and trade dynamics to create effective strategies. You will drive the rituals and routines necessary to understand performance, deliver insightful financial analysis, provide rigorous financial control and enhance processes to optimise customer investment decisions. 

The role holder will report to the Customer Finance Director and will have sole responsibility for partnering the customer team for the key Asda and Sainsbury’s accounts whilst also working on Adhoc projects across the wider Customer team

What will be your key deliverables?

• Develop a strong business partnering culture with account 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. 

• Manage a regular rhythm of business performance diagnostics, the annual & strategic planning process & the Monthly Performance Review (MPR) 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.
• Influence and drive the agenda ensuring that the customer teams make well informed and timely choices.
• Partner with the CF Director on total third party business reporting.
• Working on a number of key business process improvement initiatives

• Manage & Control terms/pricing investment, tracking of delivery & P&L management of accruals. 

• Implement pre & post evaluation of TI investment made to optimise returns. 

• Manage unsolicited deductions working with Genpact and account teams. 

Bring your experience

Essential

• Proven experience in FMCG in Customer/ commercial Finance 

• 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 Customer team and senior business leadership

• Strong financial and commercial competence built over a 5-year minimum career 

• Advanced MS Excel, PPT and the ability to turn raw data into powerful insights

• A qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA) 

Our Purpose

Bring happiness with every bite

It’s a purpose that every one of our colleagues, all around the world believes in. And while we’re all unique, we also share the same values.

Each of our values is important on its own. In combination they’re incredibly powerful.

Our values have deep personal meaning to us. They’re part of who we are and what we stand for as an employer

Living our pladis values is a key part of success, look out for questions in your interview that link to these key pladis values.

Our Values

Purpose led – We’re energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite

Agile – We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers

Positive – We’re highly motivated optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better

Resilient - We’re persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn and move forward

Collaborative – We gain strength from operating as one pladis, winning and succeeding together.

Best mix of ingredients

pladis is an equal opportunities employer, like every great recipe we’re a thoughtful mix. A happy and inclusive place to work that’s as diverse as our consumers and the communities we support, live and work in, all around the world. Where every voice is heard, and difference is celebrated. Where fresh perspectives and new ideas help us grow and thrive.

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.