Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

You will be Manager in a team responsible for the overall financial integrity and performance of a country, category, Supply Chain or FP&A. You will support the Senior Manager or Director in data collection to prepare business proposals, verify assumptions, check daily execution and support delivery of overall objectives and ensure the integrity and timeliness of reporting.

How you will contribute

You will:

Manage and execute aspects of finance planning and performance management process and related financial decisions potentially including Strategic Plan and Annual Contract planning/forecasting, target development, financial performance reporting/analysis, financial modelling, and decision support for a focused scope within a region, business unit, country, Supply Chain, Mondelēz International Business Services or Corporate Finance team. You will own data collection and verify data integrityEnsure a strong controls and compliance environment in your area of scope and ensure full compliance with our policiesHelp the senior manager and the business prepare critical financial data and insight that enable perspectives for business strategies and decisions as well as execute ad hoc analysis on requestLead projects to improve efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and embrace a mindset of continuous improvementContribute to a high-performing Finance team. You will also invest in personal development and the development of Finance peers and drive our Finance talent agenda within the organization, with a focus on local FP&A pipelineYou will work closely with the Marketing Excellence and PCM team on our Innovation agenda for all categoriesAs main business partner for our sustainability lead you will overlook the sustainability financials and work closely together with our Senior Director Sustainability MEU and Procurement Finance Director

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial planning and performance management including data collection and structuring, analysing, planning and reporting company financial performance across all financial KPIs and investment decisions and cost management to achieve financial targetsBUSINESS ACUMEN and understanding of our business, consumer packaged goods industry, and local snacking market dynamics. Relevant experience in a regional/local businessLEADERSHIP SKILLS including experience with business partnering and communication skills across a large regional or local public companyGROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET and the ability to identify/execute opportunities and leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and effectivenessINTEGRITY and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations

More about this role

This is a location-free role in Europe.

What you need to know about this position:

The Manager Category Finance must have a collaborative style with the ability to build partnerships cross functionally and effectively influence. You will provide business decision support to management. You will provide FP&A support to the Senior Category Finance Manager MEU Bakery & Meals, the FP&A Director and the Central Marketing Innovation team MEU.

Main responsibilities:

Meals

Key business partner to the Sr Director Meals MEU, leading financial analysis and directing the Central Marketing team on innovations and strategic decisions;

Participate in the monthly Project Approval (PAM) Process through assessment and voting on various projects (Innovations/ Promotions/ Profitability/ Maintenance/ Productivities etc.)Prepare regular innovation updates for Category and area Finance LeadershipCoordinate the post-evaluation process for recent new product launches. Support Marketing with BDM (Brand Dev. Meeting) presentations and framing the story.Participate in monthly BDM’s, directing other project team functions (e.g., BD teams) to improve functional decision making of our innovation pipeline and estimate financial impacts driven by different outstanding options.

Lead and coordinate FP&A activities for the Meals category;

Product hierarchy management, restatements and NPD tracking and analysisEnsure budgeting and actuals for Meals are in line with company targetsTracking and budget management of central A&C for Meals (monthly, AC, LE and major fc’s)Drive process efficiencies and ways-of-working improvementsPromote financial knowledge and literacy to non-finance functions by providing advice and consultingResponsible to manage a Genpact support for certain tasks, e.g., innovation P&L preparation, ad hoc retrieves, monthly actuals deck etc.Ad-hoc FP&A supportFinance pillar lead for finance topics within the Compass system project scope

Sustainability

Key business partner to the Sr Director Sustainability MEU, coordinating financial tracking for various sustainability streams;Coordinate budgeting and Strategic Plan (SP) processes in Sustainability and Mindful Snacking related projects, with both Regional and Global teamsCentral support to ensure robust finance assumptions received from x-functional teams are included for budgeting/SPPartner with Proc. Finance to understand sustainability on-costs and ensure impacts are mitigated ensuring viability in the P&L

What you need to be successful in the role:

Understanding of PnL structure and variance analysisStrong analytical, critical thinking, listening and communication skillsPresentation skillsProblem solving, multi-tasking skills and influencing skills with different departmentsSelf-motivated, proactive, organizedVery strong excel skillsAdaptability – responds resourcefully to new demands and challengesOperating effectively in a changing environment and using initiative and personal resourcefulnessCollaborative approachCoaching skills for other members of the teamWorking knowledge of Finance systems (FIT, BI) and advanced user of MS excel5+ years working experience in Finance, Category and FP&A knowledge preferredUsing data to make recommendations and decisionsFluent English skills

Innovation Excellence

Key business partner to the Marketing Excellence & PCM MEUBe an active finance business partner for all categories to support our Marketers with sufficiency & efficiency of their projects and be their first point of contactUnderstand the Innovation reporting in Accolade and respond to global requestsDefine Hurdle rates for innovation and other projects and work closely on that with your managerImprove ways of working for innovation projects across all categories and work together with the whole team on end-to-end processesUnderstand our Innovation Dashboard and work together with Genpact and our COE for Reporting & Planning on the quarterly actual reporting of our Top Innovations

What you need to be successful in the role:

Strong analytical, critical thinking, listening and communication skillsPresentation skillsProblem solving, multi-tasking skills and influencing skills with different departmentsSelf-motivated, proactive, organizedVery strong excel skillsAdaptability – responds resourcefully to new demands and challengesOperating effectively in a changing environment and using initiative and personal resourcefulnessCollaborative approachCoaching skills for other members of the teamWorking knowledge of Finance systems (FIT, BI) and advanced user of MS excel

Slovakia: 

We pride ourselves on having a high performing and collaborative culture where we support your career and development. In return for your commitment, drive and enthusiasm, we offer salary starting from 3,900 € plus annual bonus payment based on your performance. The final offer will depend on the skills and previous experience of the candidate. We also offer top attractive benefits.

Relocation Support Available?

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!Our people make all the difference in our succes

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Excited to grow your career?

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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Job Type

Temporary (Fixed Term)

Finance Planning & Performance Management

Finance