Finance Manager - Procurement

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

Procurement looks after the sourcing & supply of all prime materials, bought-in products, goods & services for pladis and covers several categories & regions. The ambition is to build an impactful global procurement team which supports pladis strategy and global operating model whilst enabling the regions to deliver their strategic plans.

The position entails

The Procurement Finance Team support the strategic road map by offering insightful decision support, navigate the business through the planning and reporting cycles whilst maintaining a strong control environment. This role focuses on Reporting and Planning for Europe and developing markets and provides support to Co-man and indirects.

Your main responsibilities

Business Partnering

• Provide end-to-end Finance business partner support to Procurement team
• Procurement Financial Strategy development
• Finance decision support on all key Procurement initiatives
• Project Work and ad-hoc analysis to support the strategic agenda

Planning & Reporting

• Complete period end close process
• Production of periodic results and Quarterly forecast pack for use by Senior leadership team
• Performance Forecasting through Quarterly updates, periodic forecast and Opportunities & Risks processes
• Complete Short-Term forecasting process
• Performance Management through period reporting, analysis and communication
• Budget setting incl Investment, Cost saving targets & spend
• Manage / review cost savings projects and data integrity on tracker sheets
• Manage the standard setting process for Budget and alignment with commercial business divisions

Control

• Application of pladis financial controls, policies & procedures across Buyers
• Validation of cost savings projects
• Internal & External Audit - review requirements & follow-up actions
• Periodic Control Review & Reporting
• Risk management framework compliance including Hedging & foreign exchange

Team

• Be a proactive and supporting member of a highly flexible result driven team
• Manage the relationship with the offshore team to ensure “right first-time results”

Development

• Develop, share and implement finance standard methodology and incorporate any external findings
• Ownership of Personal Development plan and appetite for self-development

What do you bring?

Required

• Applicants encouraged to be an experienced CIMA/ACCA qualified accountant or equivalent with a consistent track record.
• Positive teammate with a desire to challenge and drive improvement.
• Financial modelling and report development (Need to be comfortable managing & interrogating large amounts of data and drawing conclusions)
• Able to demonstrate a proven communication and leadership ability, with the gravitas to build solid, successful working relationships cross functionally
• The desire to challenge the status quo
• Comfortable leading change initiatives and projects
• Pro-active self-starter who can work to deadlines
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint

Preferred

• Technical accounting appreciation (IFRS9), particularly hedging
• Knowledge of SAP/JDE processes or other relevant systems and ability to get up to speed quickly on relevant systems
• Experience working in Procurement environment ideally in FMCG business
• Business Partnering experience
• Technical Accounting- Hedging & Forex Financial Management

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 pensionfund ‘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 and 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.

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.