Procurement Finance Reporting Manager

Overview

Nomad Foods is a leading frozen foods company building a global portfolio of best-in-class food companies and brands within the frozen category. Nomad produces, markets and distributes brands in 17 countries and has the leading market share in Europe. The company's portfolio of leading frozen food brands includes Birdseye, Iglo, Findus, Goodfellas, Aunt Bessie, La Cocinera and Lutosa.

Nomad is going through an exciting period of change with a clear strategy in place for further growth. The Group has plans to continue to grow organically, whilst pursuing strategic acquisitions and continuing to build a best-in-class frozen food company.

Nomad operates a centralised Procurement team which is responsible for the purchases of all raw materials used for the manufacture of Nomad products, as well as other goods and services across the Group. With spend of over €1.5bn on raw & packaging materials and co-manufactured finished products as well as €0.5bn of spend on other goods and services.

This role is a member of the Group Supply Chain Finance team and its primary focus is to deliver financial reporting and planning activities for the Nomad Procurement team.

More specifically the role is responsible for leading all month end and forecast & budget activities and coordinating these with the Procurement Buying team, Finance Business partners and other stakeholders across Manufacturing and Commercial sites.

The role is responsible for managing and optimising the reporting and planning processes for this area and helping to deliver reporting and insight on Nomad's spend, inflation and productivity initiatives.

Nomad is going through a multi-year systems and process transformation project, and this role will be pivotal in helping to define the end solutions as well as then embedding the new systems and process changes into the team.

The role has an analyst reporting to it, and the successful candidate will have the ability to encourage, motivate, and guide this individual in high standards of performance delivery, learning and development, and improving effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading month end, budgeting and forecast cycles, engaging with multiple finance stakeholders from across the whole of Nomad to ensure that Procurement spend and price data is accurate, complete and delivered on time
• Responsible for the system (Anaplan) and associated business processes which are used to report and forecast Procurement spend and price metrics within Nomad
• Provide support for potential future optimisation and development of the Anaplan Procurement reporting system, as well as for the continued roll-out of the new Nomad S4 SAP template
• Delivering reporting on Procurement Spend by currency type and location to the Treasury Functional to allow timely hedging of Nomad's currency exposures
• Owning and delivering the SOX controls for the team. Liaising with both internal and external audit on the performance and delivery of these controls
• Ownership of the finance processes concerning raw material costing master data management for the procurement team. Ensuring the processes run smoothly and optimising them as appropriate
• Facilitates process improvements to simplify / automate all procurement finance processes

Qualifications

Essential

• Education: University graduate, Qualified accountant
• FMCG experience
• Procurement Finance or Supply Chain Finance experience
• Knowledge of SAP, including material costing processes
• High level of business / financial acumen and analytical ability
• Good Analytical and business process skills
• Advanced MS Office package, particularly Excel
• Highly numerate + analytical, with good attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills distilling detailed information down into key clear messages
• Able to apply intellect + judgement to influence cross-functional colleagues
• Able to work collaboratively with peers and deliver through team members
• Organised, strong prioritisation skills and delivery to tight timescales
• Drive for results and high personal resilience
• Self-motivated individual with a continuous improvement mindset
• Career progression - an active learner who wants to develop others and progress across nomad as a finance leader. Progression will offer opportunities to relocate within Nomad

Desirable

• Anaplan systems experience