JDE UK has a turnover of €450 million. Key brands are Tassimo, Kenco, L’Or and Douwe Egberts. The FP&A team is a team of five, responsible for financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting and providing strategic insights to decision-making.

The focus of the FP&A Controller role is to work cross-functional to fully understand the P&L and own the annual budget cycle and short and long-term forecast process. This role will report to the FP&A manager and will be a key member of the UK finance team.

Responsibilities / Key activities

Owner of all business forecasting and provides analysis to support decision-making

• Responsible for the total P&L for reporting and providing strategic insights and analysis including preparing monthly reporting decks to the UK leadership team and International Head Quarters (IHQ)
• Lead the Cost of Goods (CoGs) analysis, explain the dynamics and challenge Global Operations if needed. Also, responsible for modelling CoGs in the monthly Forecast cycle and Annual Operating Plan (AOP) based on Global guidance.
• Take ownership of the monthly forecast cycle, working closely with all the key stakeholders and providing the latest insights
• Prepare insightful analysis to drive strategic prioritization with decks for the monthly review cycles (M meetings)
• Take ownership of Annual Operating Plan (AOP) planning, modelling and drive the reporting and prepare presentations of the plans (SMRD).
• Support medium to longer-term planning process in the business – e.g., 5-year Value Creation Plan or equivalent
• Work closely with the commercial finance team, Central Finance; and other company functions – Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing on both short and long-term projects to improve total performance.
• Deputise for the FP&A manager when required