The opportunity
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What you'll do
While your formal reporting structure is into the Director, Strategic Finance: & Analytics, EMEA, on a day-to-day basis you will work closely with the cross-functional team that is based in-region.
You will directly support Country Managers (and their teams) based around: EMEA to drive clear reporting, produce actionable insight, track core KPIs, evaluate investment decisions and work cross-functionally to develop strategies to solve problems.
The individual is expected to be a strong cross-functional business partner: who has a combination of hands-on analytical skills, financial modelling expertise, commercial acumen, and the ability to package their insights into strong narratives appropriate for senior executive consumption. They will be comfortable working in cross functional teams based in EMEA and around the world including Finance & Accounting, Business Operations, Data Science, Marketing, Product and Supply.
The ideal candidate relishes the opportunity to roll up their sleeves to: drive meaningful impact, possess strong stakeholder management skills, and is a self-starter that is comfortable with ambiguity in a fast paced global work environment.
This person will have a high degree of visibility with senior management: within the organization, including Country Managers, Regional and Finance Leaders.
Partner with a Country Manager in driving performance management, including: development and ongoing analysis of KPIs, creating goals/OKRs and measuring performance.
What they're looking for
- Develop a deep understanding of what levers drive growth and efficiency for: our business and translating that into investment cases and initiatives to drive business impact.
- Partnering with the business on annual planning and budgeting, laying out: risks and opportunities and debating strategies and capital allocation to maximise growth.
- Stepping in to lead EMEA’s monthly business review and speaking to key: drivers of variance to goal and potential actions to improve performance.
- Modelling and summarising the implications of a regulatory action and: potential mitigating actions we could take to minimize business impact.