AM - Project Finance - FMCG

- Work with accountable Directors and Project Managers within relevant areas of the Business Engagement team to build a thorough understanding of the project cost base within each funnel.

- Ensure that input required by the Financial Planning and Reporting team for budgeting and forecasting collections is provided in an accurate and timely fashion.

- The realisation of Benefits quoted on the Project Business Cases is fundamental to build trust with other functions (Global Categories, Controllers) as well as to ensure other teams are accountable to deliver them. High level of engagement with Functional finance is required to validate and forecast project benefits.

- Constantly look for ways to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the forecasts and budgets. Review of provisional actuals and process for collecting accruals from clients and providing these to Controllers team for processing.

- Responsibility for receiving standard actuals reporting from Controllers team and reviewing before sharing with accountable Directors and Managers and collectively adding qualitative feedback to ensure variances are well understood and remedial actions in place where required.

- Investigating any variances in actual reporting that are not immediately understood and qualified., including alignment to Trade and Capex cost