Job Title:  FP & A & REPORTING DIRECTOR

Role summary

Reporting to the Senior Director Corporate Finance, this role is responsible for ensuring that all monthly, quarterly, and annual closing and planning processes are executed with excellence, delivering high-quality outputs on time. It oversees the production of standardized and harmonized financial reporting, including performance commentaries and key exposure analyses.

Acting as the custodian of critical financial KPIs, the role drives consistency and alignment in reporting decks across all Business Partners, while contributing to strat plan activities in close collaboration with strategy and corporate development team.

Responsibilities extend to ensuring the integrity and accuracy of financial data and strengthening governance and compliance with policies. This individual drives process improvement initiatives to boost efficiency and analytical capability, whilst managing and developing a high-performing team to meet evolving business needs.

Detailed activities:

• Planning & Forecasting:
  • Lead the annual budget, rolling forecasts and align with strategy and corporate development team on strat plan. Owns and communicates timetable for actuals and planning.
  • Oversee, with support from Treasury and Finance BPs, cash flow forecasting including variance analysis and consolidation of inputs across countries/functions. Monitor working capital movements, highlight risks/opportunities, and recommend corrective actions for optimisation.
    Strengthen the discipline of cash conversion cycle monitoring within the company.

• Closing: Support monthly closing processes by validating results, trends, and drivers; ensure alignment between management reporting and statutory figures in collaboration with the Accounting and consolidations sub-function.

• Performance Management: Monitor P&L and BS performance, variance analysis, and KPIs, provide strategic insights and recommendations to leadership. Strong liaison with Finance BPs to ensure interpretation/bridges of results, including high level drivers’ analysis (vol, mix, pricing, fx, etc).

• Reporting Excellence: Guarantee the availability, accuracy, and continuous improvement of management reporting and dashboards.

• Executive Support: Prepare reporting materials and decks for the Board of Directors, shareholders, and ad-hoc requests from Top Management.
• Support HR Operations, Data and Systems team to provide reporting and analysis on headcount and people costs. Help assess the outcome of financial processes on STI/LTI indicators
• Works closely with Business Development and M&A team to provide support for due diligence activities.
• Leadership: Development, management and coordination of a team of 5 resources.

Ideal Profile

• Education: Master’s degree in economics, Finance, or related disciplines.
• Experience: >15 years of experience in FP&A/Reporting within structured international environments.
  At least 5 years of experience in a director role w/ people management.
  Experience in the pharma and/or consumer health sectors is a significant plus.
• Technical Expertise: Proven expertise in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, profitability analysis, and financial modeling; Experience in managing balance sheet, cash flow forecasting and working capital management
  Strong knowledge of IFRS principles and their impact on financial performance metrics.
• Systems: Advanced proficiency in Excel and Powerpoint; familiarity with SAP and/or S4 Hana (MM/CO/FI modules), reporting (e.g. Oracle) and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI); Experience with financial systems modernisation, dashboarding, or digital finance transformation is a plus.
• Languages: Fluent in English.