Finance Manager – Overheads (Finance)

Job Description:

The Overheads Finance Manager plays a pivotal role in ensuring delivery of business commitments through optimized and efficient operations. The candidate will be a critical business partner to our functional teams, ensuring overheads needs are well defined and fit within the overall business framework.

Success in this position requires a demonstrated ability to deliver financial insights and the fortitude to translate them into actionable strategies that drive growth and operational efficiency. The candidate will need to balance attention-to-detail with big-picture thinking and have the ability to interact and influence members of the senior leadership team.
Job Responsibilities:

• Manage resource allocation through the deployment of annual overheads budgets that are consistent with the needs of the business. Ensure alignment with the functional SVP and team leaders.
• Perform period-end close including review and oversight of journal entries and related balance sheet account reconciliations. Work with regional and global teams to ensure accuracy.
• As year progresses, take leadership role in working with business partners to capture changes via the forecasting process. Take mutual ownership and accountability in delivering business commitments.
• Develop action-based reporting to ensure business partners fully understand contribution to overheads commitment. Stakeholder partnership to maintain timely risk & opportunities assessments.
• Drive financial acumen across the organization by taking leadership role in advocating for each function while maintaining a comprehensive approach to the needs of the organization.

Successful Qualities in Candidate:

• Strong business partnership experience with a winning "team" attitude.
• Mutual accountability mindset - provide financial guidance that will influence decision making.
• Ability to lead via strong financial acumen while maintaining governance and control.
• Capacity to work through ambiguity and successfully pivot with changing needs of the business.
• Humility, confidence, and keen sense of ownership as this role routinely interacts with senior leaders.
• Attention to detail with unique capability to easily present at a detailed or high level, depending on the audience.

Candidate Skillset:

• University degree in Accounting or Finance (MBA or CPA a plus).
• Minimum five-year financial experience with demonstrated leadership capabilities.
• Overheads or other cost control experience.
• SAP experience or equivalent ERP system.
• Power BI experience along with strong digital skillset.
• Successful communicator with ability to influence via financial acumen.

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with over 140,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we are striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.