Associate Manager Finance

Overview 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. Working hours 1pm - 10pm 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. Qualifications Qualified or Part qualified CA or CMA with 5-7 years’ experience, ideally in an FMCG or manufacturing/ distribution environment with strong development/promotion record Intellectual capacity to link accounting concepts to underlying financial data systems (Oracle in order to understand, analyse and interpret both actual results and forecast data Self starter with the ability to work autonomously driving own agenda balanced with capacity to recognise when support required Communication skills to provide clearly articulated and appropriate messages across wide spectrum of stakeholders, from equivalent BU analysts to Director/Senior Director level