Cost & Financial Lead

Cost and Financial Lead

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

About the role

The Financial Operations Lead is an exciting new role within the team. This role is accountable for the Haleon discretionary budget of ~£50m opex and ~£100m capex across all Business Enterprise Applications & Transformation team (BEAT). This will be achieved by developing, maintaining, and governing the discretionary spend and budgets. By working collaboratively with BEAT delivery leads, Finance partners and interlocking with CTO customers to accurately track, forecast, and where appropriate, cross-charge the discretionary costs. Managing in year spend as well as future year forecasting.

This role will also be Accountable for FINOPS activities to support Cloud Optimisation across Azure, GCP and AWS to achieve the necessary operational savings.

Key responsibilities

• Provide operational finance leadership for discretionary spend, providing expertise and assistance to IT leadership, outsourced partner, project delivery, technical leads, and engineering teams on all matters pertaining to discretionary spend and accurate cross-charges as required.
• Own the discretionary budgets of both discretionary opex and capex and manage the full lifecycle of discretionary costs including budgets/forecasts/actuals by application/department in line with the project business cases
• Develop and implement a standard discretionary spend budget format and cross-charging process for all of BEAT.
• You will monitor and track spend across our disc. Opex and capex budgets and act on projected or actual anomalies to ensure budgets are managed and projects remain within forecast.
• You will manage the relationship between BEAT and central CTO and Finance teams for discretionary opex and capex spends.
• Be the Product Owner for Business Consumption Driven costs including the associated tooling and support.
• Fostering innovation in budget management: identifying, proposing, and implementing the choice of tools and processes.
• You will develop and co-own the cross-charging process for business consumption driven costs as that process gets introduced in 2024 and beyond

Qualifications and skills

Relevant financial management knowledge

Proven experience in effective cost management strategies, tools, models, and processes. As well as capability to design and implement consumption driven cost solutions (including cost management and optimisation). Strong numerical / analytical skills with the ability to gather, analyse and interpret significant amounts of information accurately. Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively convey complex ideas tailored appropriately to the audience. Solid understanding of the key drivers, concepts, and language that Finance, Procurement, Service Management and Technology teams use day-to-day. Experience with using cost management tools (SAP modules, etc.) and data analysis using Excel or advanced analysis tools (e.g., Power BI) to drive actionable insights for customers and senior stakeholders. Experience of working with cloud tagging and naming schemes to drive accurate alloation and accountability of cloud spend.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
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