Associate Manager - Finance

Overview

Role Purpose:

This role is responsible for supporting TM1 BU COGS financial operations, ensuring accurate financial reconciliations across TM1, SAP, and HFM, and contributing to financial planning and forecasting activities. The analyst will work closely with multiple teams, including the BIFG team, to maintain financial accuracy and provide insights for business decisions.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• TM1, SAP, and HFM Reconciliations: Ensure accurate financial reporting and system data alignment.
• Financial Planning & Forecasting: Regularly support planning and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and compliance with business targets.
• Repacking Activities: Manage the full scope of repacking operations, ensuring financial controls and timely reporting.
• Destructions Management: Oversee financial tracking of destructions, ensuring accuracy in UK financial systems.
• TM1 and Cockpit Cause Of Change : Act as a subject matter expert to match the Forecast/AOP to actual Supply chain along with the cost cause of change in TM1 & Cockpit
• Central MOH Budgets: Support AOP, rolling forecast, and month-end analysis for cost management.
• Financial Cost Card Ownership: Maintain SAP data for all repack SKUs, ensuring timely variance reporting and ad hoc analysis.
• Transaction Management: Ensure financial systems correctly process transactions from purchase to invoice payment, escalating issues when necessary.
• Repack Forecasting: Analyze and communicate repack forecasts for Walkers and Quaker, ensuring alignment with targets.
• Month-End Closing: Complete period-end accounting tasks, including balance sheet reconciliations and SOX controls.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Drive forecasting and reporting improvements through system enhancements and financial analysis related to COGS.
  
  

• Strong academic background with excellent numerical and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to liaise confidently across teams and levels.
• High proficiency in data manipulation, particularly in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with TM1, SAP FI and CO, and HFM reconciliations is highly desirable.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and manage multiple deadlines under pressure.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to push back when necessary.