Reporting and Systems Manager

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At Britvic we're on a journey to become the most dynamic soft drinks company. As one of the UK's leading players in the FMCG market we pride ourselves on setting high standards, being courageous and pushing ourselves to think outside the bottle.

We offer consumers a range of family favourite and global premium brands such as Robinsons, Tango, J20, R Whites & London Essence. We exist to help people enjoy life's everyday moments.

About the Role:
This is a critical role that supports the performance reporting, insight & forecasting of the biggest business unit in Britvic (GB). This is a demanding role that requires an incumbent that has experience in dealing with complex business needs and can deal with tight deadlines and demanding stakeholders. The incumbent needs to be technically strong in terms of managing forecast processes, understanding financial outputs (P&L), dealing with complex data and system setups.

The role is also responsible for ensuring that our planning systems and associated reports are rigorously controlled through clearly defined processes & accountabilities, so that data is robust & safeguarded. They are also responsible for maintaining & producing our reporting and systemising forecast to deadlines, assisting in the creation of insight & analysis and line management of one team member.

To be successful in the role the incumbent needs to become an expert in the GB Rolling Forecast process, Planning System setup and its usage, be able to keep to strict deadlines, be able to adapt processes and outputs to suit the business needs and be great at managing finance and IT stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

Centralised report development & production:

1. Produce, distribute, and maintain key reports accurately and to agreed deadlines.
2. Manage a centralised database for all reporting e.g. COGs/ PIB details.
3. Ensure data quality and integrity is preserved.

Proactively drive reporting efficiency & enhancements:

1. Delivers the ongoing robustness of financial planning systems.
2. Manage the systemisation of the forecast in SAP Analytic Cloud Planning
3. Manage the forecast process in excel based models that aid the systemisation of the rolling forecast for production of annual operation plans.
4. Work with IT/outsource provider to resolve system issues in a timely manner.
5. Regular integrity checks and maintenance of SAC planning, e.g. product set ups.
6. Data management in relevant systems (e.g. SAC Planning, Xtel, Anaplan - uploading/changing rates)
7. Deliver AOP & Budgets Models in excel and systemise according to timetables by working with other teams.
8. Development of SAP Analytics Cloud expertise within RCoE
9. Accurately document system procedure notes, updated as required.

Support IT projects to develop simple and efficient systems that support agility:

1. Assist in the impact assessment on planning systems of any IT change projects.
2. Ensure testing plans are rigorous and completed in a timely manner.
3. Ensure the necessary work is completed to adjust reporting/modelling for any hierarchy changes (e.g. Commercial Reports, Base Volume Allocation Models etc.)

Other:

1. Line management responsibility for one Analyst.
2. Key Contact for all GB related queries
3. Support ad-hoc projects for the Finance function that delivers the Finance Vision
4. Support FP&A in demand management processes (e.g. new report creation)

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

1. Good understanding of financial and accounting processes
2. Excellent Microsoft Office applications ability: particularly Excel, Power query
3. Report development, modelling and manipulation of large data sets.
4. Able to demonstrate problem solving skills - good at linking systems/ideas together and competent at investigating discrepancies.
5. Experience of working with non-finance functions, such as IT
6. Experience of finance planning / consolidation systems (SAC Planning ideally)
7. Background in FMCG and a broad commercial finance experience preferable

Qualifications:

1. Degree Level education (preferred)
2. Professional Accountancy Qualifications (CIMA / ACA / ACCA) (Preferred but not essential)

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