Finance Operations Lead – MEA

About Haleon:

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer company. Shaped by all of us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re building together. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include – but non-exhaustively

• Managing Procure to Pay (P2P), Order to Cash (O2C) and Close and Control (C&C) in-market teams across certain MEA markets (Saudi, Pakistan, Turkey and Egypt)
• Strong collaboration and partnering with market FDs to delivery robust finance operations, controls framework, value addition projects
• Drive delivery and performance at our in country operational teams . The scope of responsibility may evolve depending on the needs.
• Monitor the day-to-day finance services delivery of operations, designing, embedding and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level agreements (SLAs), best practices, ensuring customer issues are identified and promptly resolved and proactively identifying any issues or risks to the service.
• Ensure high standard of Governance with the Business/Vendors/Customers/Stakeholders, engaging on regular basis, identify and address issues promptly. Including escalating issues through governance at pace.
• Continuous Improvement of WoW, including but not limited to automation and standardisation initiatives and processes as well as ensuring issues are solved to the root cause.
• Drive the resolution of issue in strong collaboration with other teams & functions. Go beyond scope of P2P, O2C and C&C when required to drive changes, improvements and sustainable issue resolution
• Ensure effective controls and regulatory compliance are met through applicable policies, including leading global A&A where required.
• Actively take part in ad hoc projects delivery across regions
• Lead transformation and standardisation projects
• Proactively manage stakeholders across the business and external suppliers, to partner to improve the service and ensure that support model and service delivery process are well understood and adhered to
• People management (lead and motivate), cascading strategy and vision, management of daily workload and define priorities whilst also developing and coaching the team in alignment with Haleon Culture –
• Be a collaborative and active team member & player in line with Haleon Culture

Skills and Competencies:​

We are looking for professionals with these characteristics to achieve our goals:

Basic Education:

• University degree – Finance/Accounting/Economic or relevant
• At least 10 to 12 years’ experience in finance role including managing people and stakeholders
• Experience of working in a control driven environment
• Previous experience in managing finance service Teams

Preferred Education:

• Preferred Qualifications: -MBA/CIMA/ACA/ACCA
• Previous experience in P2P area would be good fit
• Account Payable Experience
• R2R/General Accounting proficiency
• Accounts Receivables experience
• SAP knowledge

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Why Join Us?

The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people.

So join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behavior.

In our efforts to further tackle barriers that may be standing in our way, we have implemented what we call a Hybrid Working model, known as Home office. Home office in the country of employment is permitted for all employees whose position allows it. The employee and the manager agree on the circumstances in which working from the office is required and in which the employee can work remotely or specific local arrangements. This helps us with ensuring that we maintain a healthy work-life balance, and give our best to our people.

Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives.

The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realize it.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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