Senior Financial Analyst

• Responsible for the planning and execution of product line strategy in market. Including new product introductions, portfolio optimisation, and pricing ensuring alignment with global imperatives and growth aspirations.

• Ensures the strategic plan is translated to their Team for the identification of executable actions that deliver to the strategy, resulting in increased product market share and profitable growth.

• Ensures disciplined and effective execution of those plans, including identified priority changes and transformation activity.

• Promotes personal responsibility for tracking and reporting on the progress of the strategic plan’s implementation, through the use of People + Goal processes and tools, to drive delivery to plan.

• Provides quality, hands on leadership, creating a thoughtful vision of what success looks like to engage the people to deliver the right work that will strengthen FP’s performance.

• Ensures appropriate stakeholder management approaches are taken with the product line to ensure highly effective cross-functional collaboration with global supporting functions.

• Provides regular reporting updates on product line performance to the Executive Management and as well as across the local and global Market Group.

• Deeply understands the product lines and their price positioning in market, including hard and soft factors that influence these things.

• Keeps current on changes and best practice that influence Product Line’s strategic plans.

• Manages and cultivates cross-business execution of product introductions into the market to leverage growth opportunities.

• Drives portfolio optimisation ensuring correct positioning and mix of high performing products, and rationalising of low performing products, aligned to F&P’s strategic positioning and goals.

• Identifies and establishes new market opportunities for product introductions, cultivating a momentum of enthusiasm and pull for F&P’s brand, vision and products.

• Ensures a seamless, brand aligned representation of F&P’s brand value proposition is applied across all customer touch points of the product line.

• Ensures all activities of the product line are performed in compliance with state, and federal regulations and laws governing business.

• Drives Operational Excellence through a weekly cadence of operational and People + Goal forums, process and tools, adhering to the key principles of: clear accountability, forward focus, local leadership, global participation and efficiency.

• Effective, visible leadership that influences a culture of energy and enthusiasm. Role models F&P’s behaviours and demonstrates direct knowledge of functions within the product team and their important role they play in connecting to market strategy.

• Oversees and ensures effective financial management of the product lines (planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting and audit) with a significant focus on driving revenue and margin growth and increased profitability.

• Partners with the Financial Manager in preparation and submission of annual operational budgets, managing effectively within this budget, and reporting accurately on progress made and challenges encountered.

• Leverages cross-functional strengths to take advantage of new opportunities and/or to address organisational challenges that either hinder or are needed to progress the performance and customer experience of the product line.

• Ensures product line’s adherence to maintaining global alignment of F&P’s Market organisational design by working with F&P’s central team when identifying a need for new roles.

• Coaches, develops, and retains high-performing leaders with an emphasis on developing capability in strategic areas of product.

• Ensures deep understanding of F&P’s brand aspiration, vision and strategic direction.

• Takes responsibility for establishing and aligning a culture which demonstrates F&P’s brand values and step up behaviours

• Leads recruitment, and development of leadership roles, ensuring the acquisition of talent has the critical capabilities needed to deliver to F&P’s growth plans.

• Sustains all people practises that underpin a high performing team.

• Partners with, and supports the development and implementation of leadership training programs with a focus on increasing leadership capability across the Market Group.

• Global multi-national leadership including strategy creation and execution of a Product Line.
• Proven leadership, with a track record, of successfully transforming and growing a Product Line that increased market share and profitability growth.
• Business leadership across functional areas of a global consumer organisation including budget and fiscal management experience
• Proven experience as a senior operational leader – encompassing sales, warehousing, and customer service business
• Strong financial understanding and analytical skills.Ability to develop and apply the best commercial and financial solution for the right situation and environment.
• Ability to develop and implement effective customer relationship management strategies.
• Expert understanding of the levers required to deliver profitable growth of the product line and deliver a world-class end to end customer experience.
• University undergraduate degree. Additional MBA or business-related qualification desired but not essential.

Fisher & Paykel