Senior Finance Manager – GBS

Senior Finance Manager – GBS

Job Type: Fixed term until 31/12/2027

Function: Finance

Salary Range: Competitive salary package + excellent benefits + market leading bonus

Location: London, United Kingdom

Role Summary

The Senior Finance Manager drives the business partnering with the DBS function to:

• Translate Business Plans into financials at functional level (both Opex and Capex).
• Ensures execution of Business plans in line with DBS Strategy ensuring financial rigor.
• Providing insights related to financial performance against Business plans.
• Building strong financial and commercial awareness within Business areas supported.
• Continuous horizon scanning / risk analysis, and ensure red flags are timely raised to trigger appropriate Management intervention on evolving risks.
• Challenging the current way of working and adding new value to business discussions by bringing-in finance perspective.
• Driving / Participating in Ad-hoc projects from time-to-time.
• Develop a high performing culture, by building and leading a motivated team.

Core Relationships

Internal:

• DBS LT
• Sub-Functional Leadership
• DBS Finance Team in Globe House
• DBS Finance : Regional Finance Business Partners
• DBS Procurement
• CFOM Romania

External:

• External Audit (supporting CFOM)

Role Duties and Accountabilities

• Engagement / Proactive Solutioning / Partnership / financial insights to IDT Management.
• Providing high quality financial and commercial recommendations to the business.
• Acting as main point of contact and key interface between Finance and Business to agree financial plans, initiatives and associated Governance in order to meet DBS objectives.
• Lead bottom-up exercise for IDT Co-Plan in line with Business priorities.
• Drive Investment appraisal for new initiatives and Capex spend for IDT.
• Drive Productivity Agenda in respective areas to ensure financials are delivered OTIF.
• Providing monthly SOP inputs to P&R team.
• Providing financial inputs to Procurement Team during renewal of existing contracts and signing of new contracts.
• Perform balance sheet forecast for respective areas to ensure that IDT operating cashflow targets are delivered.
• Provide requisite support to Center Recharge Team to ensure all Global DBS recharges (GSD + GBS) are performed with accuracy, in a timely manner.
• Ensuring all direct recharges (including Breakeven Models where applicable) are performed in a timely manner after due alignments with recipient of costs.
• Encourage continuous improvement approach by drawing / documenting findings, and embedding improvements in process / ways of working.
• Nurture a high-performance culture that drives value through employee engagement and optimally meets all strategic objectives, keeping people motivation and resilience at the core.
• Development of Talent pipeline and driving Finance People Agenda by recruiting, developing and managing a highly motivated, capable and adequately resourced team.
• Support and compliance with all Governance requirements (DOA, Internal Controls, Internal / External Audit, Intangible Asset Capitalization, Impairment etc.).
• Driving an organized culture of spend governance and efficiency among the DBS LT and their teams.

Experience, Skills, Knowledge

Essential

Experience Required

• 7+ years of dynamic experience in finance of Global FMCG, or similar dynamic environment.
• Proven experience leading diverse Teams.
• Experience of dealing with uncertainty, proactively identify issues and continuously challenging current way of working.
• Track record of proven value-addition to business through process, or people interventions.

Technical / Functional / Leadership Skills Required

• Ability to present data-driven facts as a story with clarity.
• Ability to simplify sophisticated situations and synthesize and present complex information.
• Capacity to adapt quickly amidst change, and rally the team along.
• Master project planning and subsequent execution.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Ground-breaking attitude / change-savvy, keeping collaboration and consultation at heart of driving change.
• Strong social skills – ability to build relationships.
• Develop collaboration among cross-functional teams to efficiently delivery business objectives.
• Independent, pro-active / self-starter, and is able to take own decisions, taking calculated risks.
• Ability to multi-task and deliver quality output under pressure.
• Deliver on timelines, while keeping the team motivated.
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Excel and Power-Point is a must.

Education / Professional Qualifications / Certifications Required

• Masters (or equivalent) in Accounting / Finance / Business Management, or
• ACCA / CA / CIMA / CFA (or other similar qualification).

Beneficial

• Demonstrable experience of Transformation Projects.
• Professional Experience of working in Big-4.
• Knowledge of SAP/HFM/BI/BCP an advantage.
• Project Management experience.

Employees who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the criteria for the role, will be given preference over employees who are not at risk of redundancy.

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