1. Enable better business decision making through:

• Provision of reliable, understandable and relevant data;
• Challenging assumptions, actions and priorities
• Delivery of insight into past and future financial performance through reporting and analytics

2. As a key partner to the business, represent and promote Finance as a value adding part of ongoing business operations.

Occasional travel to other Afton locations within the EMEAI region and Richmond, VA for projects & training.

1. Business partnering with our Commercial Vehicle and Industrial business unit:

• Act as key point of contact for this business unit, providing accurate and insightful monthly reporting
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis to business managers on non-regular activity such margin improvement and other commercial activity

2. GS&A reporting and cost centre support

• Act as business partner to the GS&A cost centre owners in the EMEAI region to support them managing their costs and achieving spend targets

3. Other:

• Support the EMEAI Leadership Team, with key business objectives and goals
• Help to deliver robust and value added long and short-term planning processes into the Region (LRP, AOP, rolling forecasting)
• Act as business partner to the Emerging Markets team (Russia, Middle East, India, Africa)
• Supporting a range of commercial projects such as; large deal evaluation, distributor channel review, pricing activity, eMobility and external market analysis.
• Assist with the continued embedding of the FP&A function as a partner to the business in delivering business understanding and better decision making

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

Qualified accountant, MBA or similar post graduate attainment.

KEY SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE:

• Exceptional data handling and analytical skills. Strong attention to detail
• A focus on outcomes and the “so what”, “now what”
• An ability to draw and present easily understandable issue and resolution from the complex
• Commercial in outlook and analytical by nature
• Proactive approach to problem solving including the anticipation of likely questions raised
• Excellent inter personal skills, able to effectively communicate across all levels of the organisation from Executive down. Demonstrably strong customer service approach
• Ideally from a manufacturing (standard costing) background
• Adaptable system skills. Willingness to learn new systems. SAP, BPC, Tableau and Bloomberg experience desirable
• Tenacity to productively challenge and escalate solutions to the benefit of the business