Finance Director Flavors – EMEA (m/f/d)

at  Archer Daniels Midland Company

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Finance Director will provide leadership and be part of the EMEA Flavors Leadership team to meet financial, performance and projects/investment targets, and ensure true business outcomes from strategic manufacturing and operational projects and enhancements.
The Finance Director will lead the development, reporting and follow-up of key goals related to financial performance, with strong linkages back to the business performance drivers, so that all relevant metrics are aligned and drive results delivery.
This role will lead and supervise dedicated team of resources, and ensure we have a strong focus on results and develop processes to translate and clearly communicate bottom line impact. The Finance Director will also ensure projects/investments are well-developed and analyzed and performance monitored after implementation. The role will ensure our commercial and manufacturing strategies are fully aligned with key business strategies in all countries/business lines of Flavors in the EMEA region.
This position reports to the Global Finance Director of Flavors Division, based in the US.

EDUCATIONAL AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Economics or Business Administration; MBA preferred;
• Minimum 15 years of experience in a similar position in large multinationals preferably in the flavors or Nutrition industry and having experience in sales, manufacturing, logistics and distribution finance; international or global exposure and breadth of management experience.
• Experience working in an organization with centralized services functions or global centers of expertise.
• Ability to work in a challenging environment with multiple, changing and competing priorities.
• Results and continuous improvement oriented; ability to drive initiatives and lead changes.
• Strong problem solving skills with a proactive and pragmatic approach; willingness to roll-up sleeves and make things happen; strong follow skills through and detail oriented.
• Proven experience in finance integration and handling complexity.
• Effective oral and written communication skills as well as ability to work with various levels of office and operational contacts; good presentation with an ability to communicate clearly.
• Positive, ‘can do’ hands on attitude with good influencing and stakeholder management skills; ability to travel as necessary.
• Experience in financial planning, reporting and analysis, costing, transfer pricing, post-merger integration, ERP implementation – SAP S4 Hana Experience preferred.
• Solid analytical, data analysis and valuation skills; PowerBI or related analytical tools
• Capital budgeting and Investment experience including partnership opportunities and strategic investments; M&A experience desired; Experience with due diligence, forecasting, and financial analysis.
• Fluent German and English.
  Please note this is a direct search led by ADM. We only accept applications from candidates, not from agencies nor subject to agency’s fees, percentages or similar.

• Develop robust processes for monthly reporting analysis, operational metrics performance tracking/forecasting, annual budgeting and support the five year strategic planning process in close relationship with the regional business leader and hands in hands with the regional BU Controller.
• Guide the cost analysis, operational planning, and Readiness process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; provide leadership to the regional performance management Team.
• Provide insights, analysis and forecast of trends and variances using as needed comparative benchmarks; recommend actions or perform financial modeling to assess optimization solutions or other courses of action, working closely with FP&A teams; proposed appropriate changes to methods and materials as necessary, and lead financial analysis of key projects/initiatives.
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and dashboards used by management as part of the monthly and quarterly reporting processes; develop and execute process for monthly financial reporting.
• Play a key role in annual and five-year strategic planning; lead for its assigned business the strategic planning cycle and build the business plan, including: operating, capital and financial components; partnering with all regional and global stakeholders for alignment with their respective BU goals, capital investments and cost management initiatives.
• Identifies risks and opportunities and provides input on recommendations to address while also maintaining a strong financial analysis foundation creating forecasts and models to increase efficiency and productivity.
• Support development of CapEx business cases to ensure robustness, advance the application of technology for better use of data analytics to provide valuable insights.
• Leadership through the training, leading and development of a team of colleagues to ensure appropriate financial insights and opportunities are understood; perform other special projects as required to support key initiatives.
• Support 1ADM and GBS implementations as they pertain to the business.