Finance Strategy - Simplicity Director
Mars Incorporated
Simplicity Director - Remote - Chicago, IL
What are we looking for?
- 8+ years of diversified financial management experience, including strategy, forecasting, process ownership, planning, and line management responsibilities.
- Experience in functional areas other than finance or relevant business experience.
- Demonstrated analytical and insights capabilities
- Demonstrated skill in written and presentation communications
- Consulting, Investment, or Technology Leadership experience a plus
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Develop strategic partnership with the SRO team, region/market process owners, region/market finance leads through focus on understanding opportunities to reduce complexity in service of value creation, efficiency in outcome delivery, and/or Associate engagement
- Lead all strategic finance aspects of the global Driving Simplicity transformation program
- Provide a strategic finance perspective to shape and guide the Driving Simplicity program's focus towards areas of complexity with greatest opportunity for value creation, efficiency in outcome delivery, and/or Associate engagement
- Manage and drive accountability with external consultancy partners
- Partner with SRO and the local organization to support and develop improved processes and best practices to evaluate program effectiveness
- Partner with MW and MVA FP&A to effectively communicate investment ROI of Driving Simplicity including tangible and more ambiguous measures of value creation (e.g., Associate Engagement, Data Integrity)
- Establish and drive digital tools/reporting and a value creation mindset within the local Sales/channel organization
- Lead ad-hoc financial evaluation and strategic recommendations
- Ownership of project budget and connection points to adjacent programs
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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Posted: 2023-01-21 Expires: 2023-02-19