Finance Manager - Logistics

Purpose of Role

The Finance Manaher, Logistics serves as a trusted partner in the organization and provides financial leadership for the Supply Chain team. This role is responsible for monitoring and providing financial analysis and insight to deliver the value creation agenda with the Supply Chain team.  The role is responsible on supporting Factory and Market Logistics and Inventory planning/forecasting process for MEA Markets and Factories.  This role takes the wholistic End-to-End lead in managing LCC and Inventory value creation and is accountable for short-term and long-term activities within the MEA Network. Every associate at Mars has responsibility for the achievement of quality and food safety.

Principal Accountabilities

Provides accurate and timely insights and information to the Supply organization in the following capacity: 

• Contributes to an engaging, high-performance learning environment
• Serve as the Finance Business Partner for MEA Supply Chain team and Finance team:
  • LCC actual costs understanding and forecasting for MEA Markets and Factories
  • Inventory level for Markets and Factories; Cash impact
  • Partnering with Supply Chain on Value Leadership initiatives and projects
  • Supporting Supply Chain with Projects
• Work closely with FP&A team to consolidate the LCC and Inventory inputs and understand the periods actuals
• Manages ad-hoc financial reporting activities.
• Identifying risks and opportunities and making recommendations for future actions
• Responsible for generating and sharing insights that drive efficiency, continuous improvement and operational excellence in the supply network.
• Supports strong financial and governance acumen in team
• Coordinates the strategic planning cycles for Supply.
• Drive Integration for LCC from finance perspective
• Contributes to the culture of accountability and responsibility by tracking action plans for key initiatives, addressing root cause issues to drive sustainable operating improvements.  Identify trade-offs and escalate operating plan variances as appropriate.
• undefinedKey Supporting Competencies·       Conflict Management·       Dealing with Ambiguity·       Drive for Results·       Peer Relationships·       Decision QualityCommand Skills·       PlanningStanding AloneundefinedKey Functional Skills/KnowledgeTechnical understanding of process improvement, project management, and planning.  Ability to meet deadlines under time constraints. Working knowledge of Supply processes (Demand Planning, Logistics, S&OP, Inventory flow and control, etc.) General business acumen with demonstrated ability to understand the functional interdependenciesAbility to motivate others, communicate with all levels of organization and influence decisions throughout the organization.Financial Insights and Analysis – Well understanding of systems and processes, as well as digital tools to derive critical insights from this information, and the effective communication of financial information and insights to the business. Financial Shaping and Decision Making – The knowledge and application of financial shaping philosophy and development and implementation of processes and tools used to shape the financial performance of the business and evaluate the activities and investments involved in deploying strategy.  Minimum QualificationsBachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field 5+ years relevant work experience, with manufacturing or supply chain business partnering experience Preferred QualificationsMaster’s Degree/MBA, CPA or CMA