QSC Business Strategic 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.

About the role

Are you looking for a global role to accelerate your growth and development? We have an exciting opportunity for you to explore.

The role reports into our Head of QSC and Procurement Finance and will work closely with QSC and Strategy leaders and respective project teams across Haleon. The scope of this role includes financial modelling, decision support, restructuring support, process simplification, financial management and governance.

The Finance Partner needs to demonstrate experience of working in a global setting, strong understanding of Cogs and supply chain topics, commercial acumen, strategic insight, rigorous analysis and proactive challenge. Senior stakeholders across the organisation interact and depend on this role.

This is a hands-on role, that is required to give finance support and guidance on key supply chain projects and initiatives, to help drive delivery and other change/ strategic initiatives across the Haleon.

You’ll enjoy the challenge of a fast-paced, problem-solving environment that requires you to think and act quickly to address strategic and ongoing day to day project tasks.

Job description 

Key roles and responsibilities include:

• Provide finance partnering to the network strategy team and other strategic QSC initiatives

• Develop, assess and lead financial business/value case modelling, tracking and delivery for network transformation projects.

• Lead a team of three QSC Business Partners and build partnering capabilities across key QSC investment decisions including Capital Investment, Quality and Technical functions.

• Build collaborative and trusted working relationships within key stakeholders in the function and across regional finance teams, ensuring alignment of business case impacts. Use strong interpersonal skills to drive for aligned decision making on key projects.

• Partner with the project team to provide challenge and support to investment appraisal assumptions for complex, multiyear projects.

• Provide analysis and delivery of insight that links the QSC investment programme to wider business strategy.

• Lead risk management and sensitivity analysis for key investment projects.

• Set up regular reporting and tracking process across the network transformation program and ensure robust financial analysis, processes and framework to track and deliver savings.

Requirements/Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• MBA or Accounting qualification (CIMA / ACCA / ACA or equivalent)

Requirements

• Experience in financial partnering roles in a complex multinational environment

• Strong understanding of QSC Finance and site/factory financial models

• Experience of managing business cases for complex change projects

• Demonstrated experience in finance business partnering with senior business stakeholders.

• Experience from working in a global organization across a matrix environment with cross functional stakeholders.

• Ability to build relationships, and influence at the highest level of the business and think strategically.

• Strong communicator with experience working in English speaking organizations

• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders and ask the right questions to achieve the optimal outcome

• Strong Excel/System and data analytic skills

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