Planning and Forecasting Team Lead

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions 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 in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question. 

Finance Planning & Forecasting Team Lead In this role you will be responsible for the performance of the small team of analysts supporting Commercial LOC Finance Team and Finance Director by leading annual and monthly/quarterly forecasts processes. P&F Team Leader will be also responsible to coordinate, supervise, consolidate financial forecasting information of assigned markets, ensuring that managerial financial reporting is performed, in time and in the forms required by Corporate guidelines, facilitating managerial decision making.

•            Work with your Local finance and other colleagues within Designated Markets to create Forecasts, Plan and Update exercises

•            Accountable for creating, updating, and maintaining financial models to provide detailed monthly and quarterly forecasts

•            Need to share high expertise, be pro-active, look for solution, develop and implement fit for purpose reporting and processes

•            Understand assumptions and drive SG&A planning

•            Compare and comment on forecasts against budgets and prior month forecasts

•            Perform variance analysis and comment on performance making recommendations of improvements going forward

•            Preparing internal management reports for executive leadership and supporting their decision making

•            Completing ad-hoc reporting requests from in-market finance teams or the FD

•            Encourage a one finance team sense of belonging from different geographies

Why you? 

•            Bachelor degree in Business Administration or Finance

•            Minimum 5 years of experience in financial planning, budgeting, financial controlling and analysis preferably gathered in a corporate environment in a multinational company and/or FMCG

•            Proficient financial knowledge of analysis, evaluation, modelling and forecasting with strong analytical skills and attention to detail

•            Strong understanding of corporate financial management with concentration in financial planning and analysis

•            Excellent communication skills – written and verbal

•            Ability and willingness to work in a multicultural and diverse environment and flex style as the role requires contact with stakeholders

•            Strong spoken and written English

•            Desire to take ownership of the tasks

•            Coordination, planning and organization skills - demonstrated ability to prioritize workload to meet critical deadlines

•            Positive attitude, energizes team and can influence it to tackle problems         

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Understand what the key drivers in changes to the plan & forecast are

• Ability to understand the complexity in which the markets operates

• Ability to provide solutions & recommendations to the in-market FD to resolve and help the business over deliver by accurately phasing the plan/forecast

• Strong reporting writing and presentation skills

• Knowledge of SAP would be an asset

Opportunities for growth

None of us should ever feel like we are standing still. Instead, we want Haleon to be a place where we feel like we are always progressing.

Improving everyday health takes dedication. Energy. Effort. So we look to reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes:

• A competitive base salary

• Contract of employment

• Annual bonuses that reflect Haleon’s performance

• Life insurance and pension plan

• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible

• Sports cards (Multisport)

• Health and wellbeing programmes that take care of you physically and mentally

• Pension plan membership and savings programmes

• Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure

• Childcare support

• Recognition programmes that reward incredible contributions

• Long term incentives through share ownership ( global grades)

• Hybrid@Haleon our philosophy to hybrid work – performance with choice

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 healthcare 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.  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/

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