IBP Group and NA Finance Lead

Key Responsibilities

• IBP Process Leadership & Governance — Group and North America
• Owning and governing the end-to-end IBP cycle for the Group and North America region while ensuring quality, timeliness, and adherence to established standards.
• Maintaining and enforcing IBP governance frameworks, including roles, decision rights, escalation protocols, and accountability structures across every IBP step.
• Managing the Group IBP calendar while ensuring alignment with all regional IBP calendars.
• Leading the Group Integrated Reconciliation (IR) meeting across all regions.
• Managing the cadence of the Group Business Review (GBR) meetings in coordination with senior leadership.
• Managing the North America IBP calendar, templates, planning data requirements, and meeting cadence for:
• Demand Review
• Supply Review
• Integrated Reconciliation
• Management Business Review (MBR)
• Exercising authority to challenge and, where necessary, reject regional submissions that do not meet established IBP quality or completeness standards while driving timely resolution within each planning cycle.
• Financial Ownership & Sign-Off — Group and North America
• Owning the consolidated Group financial bridge, including Actual vs. Plan vs. Latest Estimate across the full IBP planning horizon.
• Holding financial sign-off authority on IBP outputs prior to submission to Group IR, GBR, and North America MBR forums.
• Identifying and communicating P&L risks and opportunities generated through IBP as a required deliverable every planning cycle.
• Ensuring IBP financial outputs are fully integrated into:
• Annual Operating Plans
• Budgeting Cycles
• Long-Range Strategic Plans
• Executive Stakeholder Engagement — Group and North America
• Serving as a trusted advisor to the Group CFO by providing structured financial perspectives on planning assumptions, business risks, and emerging performance trends.
• Preparing and delivering executive briefings for the CEO and CFO prior to Group Business Review meetings.
• Maintaining structured engagement with Regional Managing Directors and Executive Leadership Team members to ensure planning alignment across the organization.
• Facilitating executive-level discussions that resolve cross-functional gaps between:
• Demand
• Supply
• Capacity
• Financial Targets
• Data, Analytics & Scenario Planning — Group and North America
• Consolidating planning data from three regions into the Group IBP model.
• Consolidating demand, supply, and financial information from multiple systems into one authoritative North America IBP view.
• Preparing executive dashboards, analytical insights, and decision-support materials for:
• Group Integrated Reconciliation
• Group Business Review
• North America Management Business Review
• Translating complex business data into concise executive-level narratives.
• Performing scenario modeling related to:
• Demand fluctuations
• Supply constraints
• Financial impacts
• Strategic alternatives
• Challenging regional assumptions and planning inputs to ensure analytical rigor before executive review.
• Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement — Group and North America
• Monitoring and reporting IBP performance across:
• Forecast Accuracy
• Forecast Bias
• Service Levels
• Inventor Health
• Capacity Utilization
• Owning the continuous improvement roadmap for:
• IBP Process Maturity
• Data Quality
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Leading the IBP technology roadmap, including:
• Vendor Relationships
• Planning System Enhancements
• User Adoption
• Return on Investment
• Supporting deployment of digital IBP capabilities across regions.
• Developing organizational IBP capability through:
• Knowledge Transfer
• Coaching Regional IBP Contributors
• Documentation of Process Standards

Key Deliverables

• Group Deliverables
• Monthly IBP meeting packs for Group Integrated Reconciliation and Group Business Review
• Facilitation and leadership of the Group Integrated Reconciliation meeting across all regions
• Consolidated Group IBP financial bridge and planning data for IR and GBR
• Executive briefing materials for CEO and CFO prior to Group Business Review meetings
• Scenario analysis reports and executive decision-support models
• Group IBP performance dashboard and KPI reporting, including:
• Forecast Accuracy
• Service Level
• Inventor Health
• IBP process maturity roadmap
• IBP technology roadmap and enhancement plan
• North America Deliverables
• Monthly IBP meeting packs for North America Integrated Reconciliation and Management Business Review
• Consolidated North America demand, supply, and financial planning views
• North America P&L risk and opportunity register updated during every IBP cycle
• Scenario analysis reports and decision-support models for North America leadership
• North America IBP performance dashboard and KPI reporting

Required Skills & Competencies

• Deep expertise in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and/or Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), including governance, facilitation, and financial integration.
• Strong financial acumen with demonstrated ability to own, interpret, and present consolidated financial information to executive leadership.
• Executive presence with exceptional communication skills and the ability to advise, influence, and appropriately challenge CFO and CEO-level stakeholders.
• Prowess in influencing cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority.
• Strong analytical mindset with advanced scenario modeling and business analysis capabilities.
• Ability to operate effectively within ambiguity while driving decisions to closure during structured planning cycles.
• Process-oriented with exceptional organizational discipline and the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities.
• Proficiency with IBP planning platforms such as SAP IBP, Kinaxis, or Anaplan.
• Experience using business intelligence and visualization tools including Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent platforms.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Experience working within ERP-integrated planning environments.
• Experience within manufacturing environments is required.
• Experience within the oleochemicals, chemicals, or broader process manufacturing industry is strongly preferred.