Maghreb & Libya Finance Business Partner

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer healthcare company. Shaped by all of us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re building together. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question. 

Job Purpose:
The role is part of Haleon North Africa Consumer business and finance team. It reports into the North Africa Head of Finance Business Partnering and provides commercial finance partnership to the General Manager, Country Manager, Finance Director as well as the Marketing, Supply Chain, Commercial Expert and HR teams looking after Maghreb and Libya markets. It requires deep financial knowledge, commercial acumen, strategic insights, a broad perspective, rigorous analysis, proactive challenge and advice as well as project management skills.
 

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnering

• Act as the primary contact point for the Leadership Team and their teams to advise on growth and margin opportunities.

• Provide analysis, assistance, and advice to management as required by the Business Unit, Finance Director, General Manager and Leadership Team

• Actively participate in key projects and provide input to business case development and general financial and business expertise.

• Help create robust business cases for significant business decisions; analyse proposals brought forward for review.

• Business Analysis: Support Leadership Team in business analysis, forecasting and setting ambition for key brands and financial/commercial consultancy.

Planning

• Responsible for the timely and accurate submissions of forecasts, Plan and updates.

• Run the Monthly Performance Review meetings (MPRs) with the GM, the FD and relevant attendees.

• Consolidate and analyse any other information necessary for a healthy growth (Stock in Trade, price volume, Advertising &Promotion and overheads etc).

• Responsible for the consolidation, analysis and reporting of the forecast and budget as well as active involvement in plan reviews and presentation of plan.

• Manage the cost flip exercise to ensure there are no exposures after costs are updated.

Reporting

• Develop and prepare various internal financial and commercial reports along with related analysis and commentary as decision support tools for the leadership team.

• Ensure monthly regional reports are submitted in a timely manner.

Projects:

• Participate in key projects within North Arica and MEA to help grow the top line and improve profitability.

• Assist marketing and commercial team with innovation feasibility studies and P&Ls.

Why You?

Basic qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance.

• Minimum five to seven years of relevant experience in a FMCG multinational company.

• High level of technical financial competence in Financial Accounting and Reporting, Management Accounting and Budgeting.

• Relevant finance experience and a proven record of success in a matrix environment working with multiple customers.

• Excellent analytical skills.

• Ability to proactively challenge and advise.

• Experience of dealing confidently with senior management.

• Broad perspective and business insight.

• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple priorities and deliver high quality outputs within deadlines.

• Strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills.

• Experience of developing creative business solutions.

• Excellent PowerPoint and excel skills.

Preferred qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• MBA (with heavy finance components) or equivalent experience.

• Effective knowledge of all accounting standards, including IFRS, US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley.

• Delivering on value opportunities while balancing risk and opportunities (Stewardship & Governance).

• Developing highly effective working relationships and managing key stakeholders to achieve the partnership status with your business.

Why Join Us?

The future of everyday health is changing. And we’re the people changing it. In front of us is an incredible opportunity to go beyond what any of us have done before. And make everyday health more achievable, more inclusive and more sustainable. For more and more people. ​

So join us, as we build one of the world’s leading consumer healthcare companies. Join us to innovate our category-leading brands. To better understand people’s everyday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriers that stand in their way. To change individual and societal behaviour. 

In our efforts to further tackle barriers that may be standing in our way, we have implemented what we call a Hybrid Working model, known as Home office. Home office in the country of employment is permitted for all employees whose position allows it. The employee and the manager agree on the circumstances in which working from the office is required and in which the employee can work remotely or specific local arrangements. This helps us with ensuring that we maintain a healthy work-life balance, and give our best to our people

Join us to work with colleagues who share your restless energy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself to do the best work of your career. And join us, as together we build a working experience that encourages us all to lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. ​

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The way we see it, every day is an opportunity for better. And we’re going all in to realise it. 

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The job closing date is on February 4, 2025

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