Financial Planning & Reporting Manager

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Financial Planning & Reporting (FP&R) Manager reporting directly to the Finance Business Partner South Region. This is a regional role, based in Vimercate.

As a member of the Bridgestone South Region (BSSOR) Finance team, the Financial Planning & Reporting Manager is responsible for working closely with the Regional Finance Business Partner, the Regional Finance Team and the HQ FP&A network to ensure the completeness, timeliness and accuracy of reporting, planning, budgeting and forecasting in line with both Group and Regional requirements.

The role is expected to produce clear, timely and accurate financial analysis covering the Regional business, working with the Business Unit Financial Business Partners to provide insight regarding the results and forecasts to the Regional Leadership Team and the leadership of BS EMIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa), to support operational and strategic decision-making.

You are expected to lead and develop the FP&R activities within the Region and work with and influence the wider global Finance team enhance and digitize the FP&R activities and service model.

The candidate should possess strong organizational skills, have a good understanding of governance and be prepared to speak up and hold self and others to account.  The ability to think commercially and communicate in business language is also important

This is a key role in the Region, and the primary face of the Region to HQ Financial Planning & Reporting functions.

Responsibilities:

Reporting

• Ownership of the Regional management reporting process, including but not limited to governance, reporting templates and standards.  Ensure alignment with Group reporting requirements.
• Own the monthly Regional Business Review process.  Liaising with HQ to ensure requirements are clearly understood and translated into actions at a Regional level.
• Own the Local Reporting process, ensuring deadlines are met and explanations for performance variances are captured and documented.

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Own the deployment and oversight of the Planning, Budgeting and Forecast process for the Region (aligned to Group requirements).
• Run the governance and review process, manage stakeholders and hold to account for contributing to the successful delivery of the Regional financial planning to the required timescales.
• Build relationships with other stakeholders such as Business Operations, Regional Finance and HQ Finance to gain understanding of the wider business.
• Own the “desktop” forecast process, consolidating inputs, sanity checking, challenging and reporting status.
• Responsible for delivery and coordination of the long range and annual operating plans. 

Process and continuous improvement

• Drives for continuous improvement in forecasting accuracy and methodology and seeks opportunities to drive sustainable improvements.
• Identify and lead initiatives to improve the efficiency and accuracy of reporting and forecasting and creating insights which drive business performance. Be an active contributor in broader Finance change and development initiatives both within BSSOR and within BS EMIA FP&A Network.
• Own the FP&A and Reporting tools, working with the HQ to both influence and adopt process and systems into the Region.

Other

• Assist the wider finance team in completion of Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting tasks where required
• Participation in Regional and European projects with the goal to create, develop, update reporting systems as well as policies and procedures from the area of financial planning and reporting.
• Represent the Region with key HQ stakeholders, aligning regional and HQ strategic initiatives and financial planning, reporting and modelling enhancements

Requirements:

• Education: University degree
• Languages skills: Italian (fluent); English (fluent)
• Experience (years): 5-7 years of experience in Financial Analysis, Controlling, Business Partnering, preferably in a large Company / Group
• Advanced knowledge of Excel.
• Good knowledge of Power Point, SAP, SAC, Power-BI
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to present in a clear and succinct manner
• Organization skills – demonstrating the ability to prioritize effectively and schedule work to meet deadlines consistently
• Influencing skills – demonstrating the ability to build strong relationships based on integrity, trust and respected financial judgement
• Demonstration of strong analytical, numerical, and problem-solving skills, looking beyond the numbers to identify root cause and find solutions
• Ability to create and maintain strong ownership of financial reporting in the business
• Experience working within a Multi-national environment an advantage

With equal competencies, being recognized as matching the requirements of Law 68/99 will be considered a plus (both art. 1  and art. 18).