Finance Operations Lead – MEA

About Haleon:

Hello. WereHaleon. A new world-leading consumer company. Shaped by all of us. Together wereimproving everyday health for millions of people. Bygrowing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands including Sensodyne Panadol AdvilVoltaren TherafluOtrivin and Centrum through aunique combination of deep human understanding andtrusted science. Whats more were achieving it in acompany that were building an environmentthat were co-creating. And a culture thats uniquelyours. Care to join us. It isnt a question.

Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include but non-exhaustively

• Managing Procure to Pay (P2P) Order to Cash (O2C) and Close and Control (C&C) in-market teams across certain MEA markets (Saudi Pakistan Turkey and Egypt)
• Strong collaboration and partnering with market FDs to delivery robust finance operations controls framework value addition projects
• Drive delivery and performance at our in country operational teams . The scope of responsibility may evolve depending on the needs.
• Monitor the day-to-day finance services delivery of operations designing embedding and monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level agreements (SLAs) best practices ensuring customer issues are identified and promptly resolved and proactively identifying any issues or risks to the service.
• Ensure high standard of Governance with the Business/Vendors/Customers/Stakeholders engaging on regular basis identify and address issues promptly. Including escalating issues through governance at pace.
• Continuous Improvement of WoW including but not limited to automation and standardisation initiatives and processes as well as ensuring issues are solved to the root cause.
• Drive the resolution of issue in strong collaboration with other teams & functions. Go beyond scope of P2P O2C and C&C when required to drive changes improvements and sustainable issue resolution
• Ensure effective controls and regulatory compliance are met through applicable policies including leading global A&A where required.
• Actively take part in ad hoc projects delivery across regions
• Lead transformation and standardisation projects
• Proactively manage stakeholders across the business and external suppliers to partner to improve the service and ensure that support model and service delivery process are well understood and adhered to
• People management (lead and motivate) cascading strategy and vision management of daily workload and define priorities whilst also developing and coaching the team in alignment with Haleon Culture
• Be a collaborative and active team member & player in line with Haleon Culture

Skills and Competencies:

We are looking for professionals with these characteristics to achieve our goals:

Basic Education:

• University degree Finance/Accounting/Economic or relevant
• At least 10 to 12 years experience in finance role including managing people and stakeholders
• Experience of working in a control driven environment
• Previous experience in managing finance service Teams

Preferred Education:

• Preferred Qualifications: -MBA/CIMA/ACA/ACCA
• Previous experience in P2P area would be good fit
• Account Payable Experience
• R2R/General Accounting proficiency
• Accounts Receivables experience
• SAP knowledge

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Why Join Us

The future of everyday health is changing. And were thepeople changing front of us is an incredibleopportunity to go beyond what any of us have donebefore. And make everyday health more achievablemore inclusive and more sustainable. For more and morepeople.

Sojoin us as we build one of the worlds leadingconsumer companies. Join us to innovate ourcategory-leading brands. To better understand peopleseveryday health needs. To tackle the biggest barriersthat stand in their way. To change individual and societalbehavior.

In our efforts to further tackle barriers that may be standing in our way we have implemented what we call a Hybrid Working model known as Home office. Home office in the country of employment is permitted for all employees whose position allows employee and the manager agree on the circumstancesin which working from the office is required and in which the employee can work remotely or specific local arrangements. This helps us with ensuring that we maintain a healthy work-life balance and give our best to our people.

Join us to work with colleagues who share your restlessenergy. To explore your interests. To stretch yourself todo the best work of your career. And join us as togetherwe build a working experience that encourages us all tolead happier healthier more productive lives.

The way we see it every day is an opportunity for were going all in to realize it.

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. Were striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect listening to different viewpoints supporting our communities and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

As you apply we will ask you to share some personal information which is entirely voluntary. We want to have an opportunity to consider a diverse pool of qualified candidates and this information will assist us in meeting that objective and in understanding how well we are doing against our inclusion and diversity ambitions. We would really appreciate it if you could take a few moments to complete it. Rest assured Hiring Managers do not have access to this information and we will treat your information confidentially.

Haleon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race color national origin religion sex pregnancy marital status sexual orientation gender identity/expression age disability genetic information military service covered/protected veteran status or any other federal state or local protected class.

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