Finance Manager, A&P Business and Process

About the role

The Finance Manager, Advertising & Promotional (A&P) Business and Process supports A&P spend planning, monitoring, and analysis. This role focuses on enhancing the A&P system, simplifying processes, and improving data quality.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the A&P systems expert from a finance lens by maintaining and enhancing the A&P system, ensuring it meets end-user needs and supports business planning and reporting.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Marketing, Sales, Finance, and Information Technology to control and prioritize enhancements based on business needs and teams' roadblocks for continuous tool and data improvement.
• Secure funds and resources for system implementations, qualification, and validation, and coordinate inputs needed to move initiatives forward.
• Project manage enhancement development and testing (including leading User Acceptance Testing) to ensure enhancements are delivered on time, work as intended, and align with strategic intent.
• Own change management related to enhancements and system updates, including communications, adoption support, and ensuring teams are ready for changes.
• Support A&P business planning and process activities by building and maintaining the A&P planning template with key stakeholders, ensuring data quality and consistency with brand/market/touchpoint strategy.
• Enable business users day-to-day by acting as the subject matter expert for budget maintenance, invoicing, purchase orders, and reporting, and by leading weekly A&PO Office Hours to troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain documentation and training by keeping A&P materials up-to-date and ensuring ongoing training for users and new hires on systems, governance, and ways of working.
• Partner with global teams to ensure alignment on taxonomy, strategic intent, and best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of experience in finance FP&A, finance reporting, or financial systems with demonstrated career progression.
• Proven experience driving improvements in process and ways of working across stakeholders (project management experience strongly preferred).
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships and partner cross-functionally to balance stakeholder priorities and needs.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills; able to drive collaboration and communicate at all levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office.