Finance Planning & Analysis Specialist

Finance Planning & Analysis Specialist

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.

The Challenge

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the pladis WEEM FP&A team where we aim to create a best-in-class FP&A function to drive performance and shape the strategy of our fast-growing business. A real opportunity to create and build the vision for the WEEM FP&A function; implementing new ideas ranging from better insights and analytics to bringing external best practice in to simplifying processes to strengthening FP&A capabilities globally.

The position entails

Reporting to the WEEM CFO – WEEM FP&A and Performance Management, this is a critical and exciting role that will act as the conduit and partner Finance teams across 6 regions globally to lead & drive FP&A processes and help deliver business performance. It provides a valuable opportunity to interact with the CEO, CFO and members of the pladis Leadership team (pLT).

Your main responsibilities

• Financial Planning & Analysis: Lead the regional financial planning and analysis processes, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis to support strategic decision-making.
• Performance Monitoring: Develop and maintain financial models to monitor regional performance, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to senior management.
• Business Partnering: Collaborate with regional business leaders to provide financial guidance and support, ensuring alignment with overall corporate objectives.
• Reporting & Compliance: Prepare and present accurate and timely financial reports, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external regulations.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the FP&A function.

What do you bring?

• Qualified 3-4 years accountant/MBA or FP&A and business partnering experience ideally in FMCG.
• Audit experience is a plus.
• Progressive finance experience and responsibilities including roles in operating business entities and regional/group finance teams.
• Ability to lead and work in cross-cultural environments, build strong relationships and impact through influence.
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to get beyond the numbers and the process: able to tell a performance story in a compelling, visual and engaging way that influences business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Finance systems and processes. Experience in Hyperion and systems change/implementation would be an added advantage.
• An enthusiasm for seeking out and implementing new ideas, tools and ways of working and challenge the status quo.

What we offer

Working for pladis means challenging jobs, career opportunities and an inspiring environment that allow you to enhance your personal development. pladis recognizes that the on-going success of the company depends on the continued development and engagement of our employees and pursues a fair and competitive remuneration policy, recognizing individual and team competencies and performance.

A few of our benefits:

• Fixed term employment (12 months) with possibility of a permanent contract
• Development opportunities through our pladis Academy & other training programs
• A competitive salary
• Fulltime employment (37.5 hours per week)
• 34 holidays (based on fulltime)
• Pension in pension fund ‘Zoetwaren’
• Discounts on health insurance, gym memberships, bikes etc
• Biscuits, chocolate and other snacks from our personnel store
• The best colleagues in an informal working environment.

Who are we?

Koninklijke Verkade, founded in 1886, with amazing brands like Verkade en Sultana, is part of pladis since 2016. pladis is one of the world's leading snacking companies. We are the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. A worldwide community with 16,000 colleagues around the world. Each of us bring our experience in happiness. Each of us is unique, but we find each other as a family of bakers and chocolatiers, hardworking, with pride and purpose. After all these years we believe that biscuits and chocolate bring people together. We are pladis. We bake Happiness. Happiness with every bite.

pladis succeeds because of people like you. People who wake up in the morning excited to get to work. Who believe in themselves and their potential. Who want to grow as part of a global community of like-minded colleagues.

pladis colleagues care deeply about being the best. About winning, staying the course and never giving up. Whichever part of the world we’re in, whatever our role. Whether we’re baking, working in HR, finance, marketing or many other areas – we win as one pladis team.

And while we’re all unique, we share something in common. It’s the code by which we live and work. We call it our ‘Winning Traits & Behaviours’: Purpose Led, Agile, Collaborative, Positive and Resilient. Five aspects of pladis life that define who we are, how we interact and get things done.

If pladis sounds like the place where you can thrive and help write the next chapter in our growth story, then check out opportunities around the world and follow us for the latest information from our teams.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business.

pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe – and this diversity is our great strength.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.

- All applications will be treated with confidentiality. Third Party or Recruitment Agencies are not welcomed.

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.

About Us

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 our 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 bakeries across 11 countries and is united by our purpose: to ‘bring happiness with every bite’.

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.