Finance Business Partner - Supply Chain at Mars

Job Overview

• The Supply Finance Business Partner serves as a trusted partner in the organization and provides financial leadership for the respective Site/Manufacturing Management team.  The primary purpose of this role is to partner with manufacturing teams in the pursuit of operational excellence and cost.  Responsibilities include defining and ensuring the delivery of the financial objectives as well as realizing and judging risks and opportunities. This position provides insights on operating results and clarifies key performance indicators for value creation roadmap.  Every associate at Mars has responsibility for the achievement of quality and food safety.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or related field 
• 3-5 years relevant work experience, with manufacturing or supply chain business partnering experience
• Ability to travel up to 50%

What will be your key responsibilities?

• Provides business partner support and financial guidance for the manufacturing sites in the following capacity: 
• Contributes to an engaging, high performance learning environment
• Serve as the Finance Business Partner to the Plant Managers:
• Providing financial advice to ensure sound financial and operational decisions
• Support strategy definition and implementation
• Developing and evaluating longer term strategies
• Validate forecasts and investment plans
• Actively partner with the manufacturing team to drive performance and meet financial shape commitments.
• Ongoing analysis of trends (periodic and vs previous year(s) of shape development and make recommendations to drive value creation and the simplicity agenda
• Identifying business issues and opportunities and making recommendations for future actions.
• Providing insights and thorough inputs to the operating plan, revised forecasts, and strategic planning cycles for manufacturing run (Scope includes productivity, manufacturing costs, NQC, and inventory)
• Drives manufacturing site efficiencies, continuous improvement and value add innovation
• Contributes to the culture of accountability and responsibility at manufacturing sites 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.
• Support in ad-hoc requests and local/regional projects
• As part of the Global VCO Finance Team, share & drive best practice, encourage global consistency and contribute to a high performing and engaged team.