Commercial Finance Lead, West Africa at Mondelez International

Job Description

• You will manage the overall financial integrity and performance of a country, category, Supply Chain or FP&A.
• You will help directors prepare business proposals, verify assumptions, check for daily execution and support delivery of the business unit or region objectives, ensuring the integrity and timeliness of reporting.
• You will also manage a Finance team and may manage a third party team.

How you will contribute

You will:

• Manage aspects of finance planning and performance management process and related financial decisions potentially including strategic plan and annual contract planning/forecasting, target development, financial performance reporting/analysis, financial modeling and decision support for a focused scope within a region, business unit, country, Supply Chain, Mondelēz International Business Services or Corporate Finance team. You will own data integrity for managed scope.
• Contribute to a strong controls and compliance environment at Mondelēz International. You will also ensure that policies are understood in the organization and that proper controls and compliance are in place.
• Partner with the business providing critical financial data and insights to enable directors and wider business perspectives for strategy and decisions.
• Drive for harmonization, efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and build a mindset of continuous improvement within the Finance team.
• Build a high-performing Finance team. You will also recruit and develop Finance talent and drive our Finance talent agenda with a focus on the local FP&A pipeline.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial planning and performance management including data structuring/validation, analyzing, planning and reporting company financial performance across all financial KPIs and strategy development, investment decisions and cost management to achieve financial targets.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN and understanding of our business, consumer packaged goods industry, and local snacking market dynamics. Relevant experience in a regional business.
• LEADERSHIP SKILLS including experiences with business partnering and communication across a large regional (or global), public company; experience of working as a finance leader managing a wider finance team and support/act as business to make decisions and drive execution to deliver results.
• GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET and the ability to identify opportunities and leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• INTEGRITY and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations.

More about this role

What you need to know about this position:

• Lead the Commercial Finance agenda for West Africa by being a strong business partner to the Sales, Category Planning and Activation, and Marketing Teams.
• Co-create the short term and long-term business strategy and support/ track execution.
• Lead and provide business decision support to stakeholders and Business Unit Leadership Teams in driving value creation, delivering profitable growth, margin improvement and managing overheads budgets.
• Evaluate investment project proposals across categories and ensure financial sustainability.
• Lead the Commercial Finance team and oversee Category Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Financial Controlling, Tax and Treasury teams.
• Developing and building capability and driving high performing teams.
• Part of the West Africa Leadership Team

What extra ingredients you will bring:

• Takes responsibility and is accountable.
• Highly analytical
• Has passion, courage and leads by example.
• Flexible mind-set and a willingness to make suggestions and improvements.
• Highly ethical and works within governance.
• Ability to coordinate, prioritises and plan effectively with strong execution abilities.
• Effective communicator and leader.
• Ability to multi-task effectively.
• Able to build relationship with key stakeholders
• Ability to influence
• Ability to build strong high level strategic presentations

Education / Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Finance or Management Accounting.  CIMA/ACCA preferred.
• 12-15 years’ experience in Finance Senior Management; with more than 7 years demonstrated experience in management accounting, financial planning within multinational business environments.
• Strong US GAAP / Internal Accounting Standards and Statutory Accounting Systems.
• Excellent and demonstrated Business Acumen with demonstrated experiences across functional process within multinationals.
• Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams.
• Uses analytical skills and judgment to solve problems with limited information at hand
• Excellent Strategic, Conceptual and Analytical skills.
• Demonstrated experience of financial and manufacturing key performance indicators
• Excellent communication, people management and leadership skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to identify the smallest details that may have significant impact.
• Advanced MS Excel is a requisite; with knowledge of databases (Oracle) an advantage.

Job specific requirements:

In line with the job purpose, key accountabilities will entail the following:

• Accountable for Volume and Revenue Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting (monthly) through the Integrated Business Planning process.
• Accountable for consistency and accuracy of forecast submissions, KPIS, variance analysis
• Analyse and recommend pricing actions to mitigate the impact of commodities and FX movements.
• Provide financial support in decision making – driving the right decisions for growth and profitability.
• Create and maintain a strong internal controls environment.
• Build and maintain relationships with service providers, customers, banking institutions and relevant government authorities
• Support the Treasury team in discussions with the banks on interest rates, Letters of Credit, FX rates.
• Inform all Stakeholders of any potential financial risks and develop mitigating actions.
• Ensure integrity and accuracy of all databases, data and financial submissions.
• Actively participate in project teams, new launches and other multi-functional project teams, providing support – project evaluation, advise and creating financial models.
• Accountable for the management of Sales Finance Teams providing the required support, training and development for continuous professional development.
• Oversee the total finance team in West Africa as the overall finance leader for the unit.
• Promote and lead financial knowledge and literacy to non-finance functions or employees by providing advice, consulting, training and on-line training.

Key Deliverables

• Financial Metrics – Volume, Revenue, Gross Profit, Operating Income, Free cash flow
• Statutory Compliance/ Internal Controls – As the Finance Director for the listed entity ensure strong internal controls and statutory compliances on financial practices.
• Analyse and provide insights from published results of key competitors
• Financial decision support for all investments in the company
• People and Engagement – Enabling wider organisational programmes around engagement and careers, providing coaching and relevant exposure to colleagues as needed.