Finance Director

Welcome to Haleon. We're a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we've grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it's time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

Are you energized by a highly visible finance role that allows you to build partnerships with the business, help influence senior stakeholders and shape the strategic business plan?  If so, the Finance Partnering Manager role could be an excellent opportunity to explore.

As a Finance Partnering Manager in Global Finance at Haleon you will be offered a great breadth and depth of opportunity and challenge.  Finance provides the partnership, strategic guidance and support services that our business units need to operate efficiently and effectively.  This enables them to focus on developing, manufacturing and delivering medicines, vaccines and products to the patient and consumers who need them. Whether supporting the commercial businesses, one of the Global Support Functions or being part of the Corporate Finance team, effective Finance Partnering at Haleon sits at the heart of all strategic and operational decisions – providing insight, shaping options and driving results.  This provides a unique vantage point from which to truly understand Haleon, as well as to experience a variety of the different business units and environments.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Supporting development of a strong Finance Business Partnering organization
• Achieving targets in the area of Data and Reporting within the Business Unit Finance organization.
• Keeping key stakeholders informed of changes impacting the business.
• Collaborate with business partners to investigate requirements and problems and to seek effective business solutions through improvements in data management processes and procedures.
• Drive Monthly Financial data quality management including controls and improvements.
• Design and Manage Business Intelligence and Reporting solution to enable Ad-hoc reporting
• Demonstrating Cross function matrix navigation & management
• Design and Manage Business Intelligence and Reporting solution to enable Ad-hoc reporting
• People Development, Support development of a strong Finance Business Partnering organization
• Manage a team of 15 to 20 analysts/contractors to ensure accurate and timely reporting of data

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor's Degree and/or professional finance qualification (e.g., ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA)
• Exposure and experience working in a finance function, including providing financial partnership to a business area or team
• Demonstrated financial knowledge and experience including analysis, evaluation, forecasting, strategic planning and decision making
• Direct experience with financial software and systems

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• MBA, preferably in Management, Finance or Accounting.
• Strong Analytics training or experience
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience managing or working with a global team and global stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and compare complex data from multiple sources
• Demonstrated ability to determine and communicate the legal, financial and ethical interpretation of industry regulated principles

Our Win as One Framework is a simple, stretching definition of our future direction. It includes our purpose, ambitions, strategic drivers, and behaviours that will enable us to Win as One. This framework guides our decision-making, strategy, and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Consumer first, always: Engage key business counterparts and operational stakeholders to deliver operational execution of Haleon strategies related to eCommerce activities, always putting the consumer first.

• Collaborate for impact: Establish and maintain relationships with critical groups to ensure customer knowledge is utilized to inform and deliver on the eCommerce roadmap, collaborating for impact.

• Unlock value, at pace: Drive business process improvement throughout the commercial and operational support teams, unlocking value at pace.

• Grow myself and others: Continuously look for opportunities to learn, build skills, and share learning, growing myself and others.

Code of Conduct as a Leader within Haleon , as a manager, you have an important responsibility to ensure that this Code is applied correctly and to promote an ethical culture.

• Be the role model that brings our Code to life, by always acting with the highest ethical standards.

• Ensure your team, especially new members, are familiar with our Code and the Ethics & Compliance contact, in your market.

• Maintain an environment of trust that allows all to Speak Up, reinforcing the guarantee of anonymity and non-retaliation.

• Listen to your team and promptly raise any compliance concerns you become aware of.

• Make any necessary corrective and preventive decisions, in a timely manner.

• Recognize those in your team who display ethical behavior; share examples of good ethical decision-making, so all understand how we expect them to act.

• Provide timely support into any company investigation of potential wrongdoing.

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Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It's important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We'll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence. 

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