Supply Chain Finance Senior Analyst

Hershey Company; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading confectionery manufacturer in London is seeking a Sr Finance Analyst to manage supply chain analyses and financial forecasts. Responsibilities include providing financial analyses on manufacturing costs and developing budgeting tools. The ideal candidate has at least 5 years of experience in supply chain finance, solid analytical skills, and proficiency in SAP and Excel. This role offers opportunities for engaging with key stakeholders and driving cost improvement projects.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently under a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
• Proactive, organized, and problem-solving mindset.
• Good understanding of accounting flows and processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide all financial analyses related to manufacturing and costs.
• Develop tools for budgeting and forecasting solutions.
• Prepare analyses and identify opportunity and risk areas.

Skills

Financial analysis

Communication

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

SAP or equivalent ERP

Microsoft Excel

Education

BA/BS Degree in Finance/Economics/Accounting/Business

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Location: London, UK

Summary: Sr Finance Analyst is responsible for responsible for all required Supply Chain analyses, cost budgets, forecasts and commitments for business units while providing a regular review of the actual results against the targets. The role will require a close working relationship and regular communication with Key stakeholders across EU, MEA & WTR LT and supply chain teams across the regions.

Summary of Major Duties

Managing Supply Chain Cost for EU and WTR

• Provides all financial analyses to Business Units on Manufacturing Variances, Purchase Price Variances and Plant Fixed Cost for LE, Plan, Strat Plan and Innovations.
• Continuously develop tools/systems and automate processes for budgeting and forecasting solutions to streamline the forecasting and budgeting processes and provide enhanced reporting functionality.
• Managing Business Units’ expectations on the supply chain cost variance and effectively communicating to the supply chain stakeholders to meet the ultimate business objective.
• Drives enhanced visibility on US/Mexico/Malaysia sourced SKUs with explanations and assumptions and timely forecasting on COGS impacts.

Supply Chain Margin Expansion

• Elevates partnership with Supply Chain team based in UK (SC Director, EU SC Manager) and US based OBD Team.
• Supports & coordinates EMEA/WTR Supply Chain teams to drive margin expansion projects via close coordination with respective stakeholders across the region.
• Partners with SC Team on 3 year multi-million CI pipeline of EUDR portfolio, helping deliver multi-layered and dimensional cost improvement projects out of US, Mexico and Malaysia.
• Partners with SC Team on EU-Coman portfolio, optimization of cost and sustainability of production as well as Innovation/Portfolio expansion feasibility projects.
• Partners with SC Team on UK Co-packing portfolio transformation, transforming oversight and execution of current procurement & production for UK/EU portfolio.
• Prepares analyses, identifies opportunity and risk areas Provide recommendation of costs improvement opportunities through supply chain costs analysis.
• Builds financial and financial contracting capability with External Co-man’s and Co-packs while working directly with external parties and distributors.

Other Projects

• Support in managing Ad Hoc Supply Chain requests coming from EU&WTR.
• Lead projects for EMEA & WTR based on business requirements.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities

• Ability to work independently under fast-paced environment with minimal supervision.
• Team player and able to communicate effectively in English.
• Integrity and able to provide objective decisions to improve P&L bottom line.
• Good business sense committed and responsible in meeting deadline.
• Proactive, organize and problem-solving mindset.
• Knowledge in financial policies/control.
• SAP or equivalent ERP system exposure is a must.
• Microsoft Excel analytic skills.
• Good level of supply chain financial planning and analysis knowledge.
• Good understanding of accounting flows and processes.
• Must have computerized systems operating experience (SAP preferred).
• Proficiency in MS Excel.

Education

BA/BS Degree in Finance / Economics / Accounting / Business. Masters degree not required (but can be useful/favorable).

Experience

At least 5 years of supply chain & financial planning/analysis experience, preferably in multi-national manufacturing environment.