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Finance Business Partnering – Fabric Cleaning Arabia Business
You are the owner of E2E P&L for Fabric Cleaning Arabia business acting as a mini-CFO, demonstrating independent decision making and value driver to your key stakeholders (Marketing, SC, CSP, R&D), the job requires as a minimum to:
- Be an effective Finance Business partner and trusted finance advisor to assist the Finance Manager and the Arabia HC Team to drive performance management, decision support, strategy formulation and strategy into action.
- Co-lead and drive BU discussions to ensure business objectives are delivered OTIF.
- Prepare the various ad-hoc analysis for Business Group Meetings; prepare rolling forecasts and business plans for the business.
- Co-lead and drive Pricing Framework for the category in the geographical scope to ensure profitability and growth based on intended market strategy.
- Collaborate with Marketing, CSP, R&D, and Supply Chain teams on value creation opportunities (business cases) – offering financial recommendations aligned with business objectives for Fabric Cleaning Arabia business
- Analyse P&L movements, identify discrepancies, and recommend actions to meet financial goals
- Manage month end activities and assist the Finance manager with S&OP decks & forecast submissions.
- Actively contribute to key business meetings (e.g., BGT meetings, S&OP meetings, Innoflex meetings), offering financial insights and supporting preparation in alignment with commercial teams.
- Provide timely support to PTAB and local finance teams on BU performance and other ad-hoc requests.
- Lead overall finance process related to category agenda, including but not limited to Pricing and Financial Master Data management
- Upload Price Structures, Approve Activity Proposal submitted by CSP/Marketing in Unify. Assign Product Hierarchies to new SKUs.
- Do post launch evaluations for key innovations whether the delivery is on-track.
Key Stakholders: Fab Clean Marketing Team, Arabia CSP Team, Demand Fulfilment Team, Arabia FET Team
Supply Chain Finance Business Partnering – Home Care Arabia
- Act as the primary financial advisor to the Arabia HC BU on SC matters. Provide financial insights and decision support across strategic initiatives, including sourcing network studies, innovation business cases.
- Build robust financial models and perform DCF analyses and scenario planning.
- Lead the Cost Agility agenda which tracks end-to-end cost savings for Arabia HC business (Net Productivity, 5S Savings, Cash delivery, Transfer Prices etc.)
- Manage Arabia HC capital expenditures with HC PTAB engineering and FET team, ensuring strong financial governance, timely approvals, and compliance with investment guidelines and business cases.
- Partner with the Factory Finance team at the BUL factory (Jeddah) to track factory costs and other initiatives.
Key Stakholders: Arabia HC GM, Demand Fulfilment Team, Arabia FET Team, BUL Factory Team, HC PTAB R&D and Engineering Team
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