Commercial Finance Leader – Emerging Markets (Location: Europe) in Nanterre, France

What you’ll do:

This is senior business partner role focused on driving profitable growth together with the Emerging Market Zone leadership team. This role reports directly to and closely supports the Finance Director Commercial Operations and forms not only part of the Finance Leadership team but also the Zone leadership team.

Leading and championing a team of local Finance Business Partners and Analysts you’ll develop strong relationships with your key senior stakeholders, making your team a trusted partner to the business and supporting them to drive the success of the business through the delivery of an accurate and high quality commercial finance offering. You’ll drive positive change and improvements ensuring a visible and regular presence, refining processes and schedules, introducing new ways of working which accelerate market growth and ultimately maximising the “value added” by the team.

Location: Europe

Business partnering:

• Proactive commercial business relationship management and partnership

• Build strong relationship with the members of the zone leadership team

• Co-pilot the zone performance to profitable growth keeping in mind the geographical diversity and complexity

• Ensure real time support, financial guidance and improved insights into business performance and informed decision making

• Provide decision support for commercial deals, pricing actions and investments opportunities

• Build strong business and commercial acumen through direct relationships with the customers and business units

• Assess and advice on appropriate actions to manage business and finance risk and communicate impact effectively

• Lead or support the development of business cases

• Strong lead of collaboration with BUs and supply chain to deliver on sales objectives

Analytics:

• Provide insights into the business performance for the areas under responsibility and quality commentaries for monthly reporting requirements

• Lead the business partnering support for the annual profit plans and monthly forecasting working together with the zone leadership teams

• Specific focus on customer, channels and profitability analytics

Leadership and continuous improvement:

• Proactively build a strong team of finance business partners to drive the value in the organization now and ready for the future (enable back-ups, consistent analytics, customer focused business partnering)

• Design and propose financial solutions to business challenges while maintaining governance and financial controls

• Continuously improve tools and processes to get better insights into the business

• Prioritise competing demands, proactively manage expectations of the stakeholders

• Lead projects, apply business acumen and commercial awareness to deliver business objectives

• Coordinate the Business Partnering Team’s support to the zone leadership teams on ad-hoc projects and requests

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree or equivalent

• At least 8 years of leadership experience

• Data analytics, problem solving, project management

• Risk management, strategy, business modelling (seeing new opportunities)

• Self-leadership, team leadership, change-leadership

• Build relationship, communication (explain complex ideas), influencing