Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact
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What will this role achieve?
The Global Finance Reporting Lead is responsible for 3 areas
Overseeing Godiva’s end-to-end financial operations and helping ensure that effective business decisions are made. This includes understanding and reporting on business performance to drive improvements and standardization, evaluating project business cases, and coordinating Godiva’s planning and forecasting processes from Net Sales to EBITDA. Leading commercial finance processes for Godiva and Global Brands, including innovation and pricing architecture. This role provides clear visibility into product performance by preparing monthly regional and consolidated reports for the Godiva and Global Commercial Leadership Teams. Managing two Global HQ cost centers, including monitoring monthly spending, reporting financial results, and initiating the recharge process to regional teams in a fair and transparent manner.
This position reports to the Vice President Finance, Commercial and GODIVA and the role holder will have responsibility for delivering key forecasting, reporting and commercial activities. Our remit covers all Godiva and other pladis regions and we deal with many senior stakeholders.
This role is aimed at developing, coordinating, and ensuring quality reporting and insightful financial and commercial analysis across the business to give us a deep understanding of performance and be able to give insight to help drive the business forward.
What will be your key deliverables?
Bring your experience.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to much loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake and chocolate.
Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of its 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 factories in 11 countries, and is founded on collaboration, agility and resilience.
As a responsible business, delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.
pladis people are passionate about collaboration and creation, using consumer insights and trends to fulfil its promise of bringing happiness with every bite. This passion, combined with rapid speed to market, enables the company to bring its products from idea to on-shelf quickly, so they are available for consumers all over the world.
