Senior Manager for GMS FP&A and Center Function Partnering

<p><b>POSITION PURPOSE</b></p><p>The Senior FP&amp;A Manager is responsible for consolidation and reporting of Global Manufacturing Budgeting and Forecasting processes for designated sites and platforms across the Zoetis manufacturing business. The Senior Manager will partner with FP&amp;A leaders, Finance platform leads and site controllers/teams to provide support around the forecasting and budgetary processes of the manufacturing business of Zoetis. They will also be responsible for the center function in GMS and partner with exec members on their centralized budgets.</p><p></p><p>The Senior Finance Manager role will focus on the following areas:</p><ul><li><b>Center Finance:</b> Provide senior stakeholder and central leadership support on the management and reporting of Center HQ finances especially around month end reporting, Forecast and budget building</li><li><b>FP&amp;A for Forecasting and Budget</b>: Provide leadership on the forecasting and budgetary GMS FP&amp;A processes ensuring integrity in the data, critiquing of financials and clear explanations of financial performance.</li><li><b>Manager:</b> Provide clear and indepth analysis on forecasting and budgetary processes to your manager so they are comprehensively informed on key drivers.</li><li><b>Lead: </b>Lead and manage your two direct reports to ensure you coach them up, both professionally and personally, to ensure they are providing clear analysis and are continually improving. You will also assist them on project support and guidance as they partner central teams</li><li><b>Projects:</b> Lead designated projects on center finance, forecasting and budgeting while driving change and continuous improvements</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p><b><span>MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES</span></b></p><p>The Finance Senior Manager will be primarily responsible for the completion of the activities which includes but is not limited to:</p><ul><li>Consolidate, prepare and develop standard management reporting packages, ad hoc reporting and key performance indicators (KPIs) each forecast and budget for the GMS business and finance management</li><li>Working with the GMS site and platforms to critique and understand key budget and forecast drivers.</li><li>Review all SAP journal entries, POs and account balances to ensure we have accurate accounts on a monthly basis for center finance</li><li>Build and foster stakeholder relationships with the center LT with regular interaction, performance updating and ensuring budget building is bottoms up and challenged accordingly inline with full company performance</li><li>Identifying platform drivers that support decision making for budgeting, planning, forecasting and management reporting.</li><li>Lead and initiate projects around forecasting, budgeting and center finance improvement areas.</li><li>Reviewing financial models for solutions to manage the budgeting and forecasting process to ensure consistency.</li><li>Perform MAPE (Mean Absolute Performance Errors) post each forecast to improve LE accuracy while providing clear trend analysis to support findings</li><li>People Management: lead and manage 2 colleagues who will support you operationally ensuring both they and your teams processes continually develop and improve</li><li>Work collaboratively with the Finance Leads, Site controllers and other finance team members to ensure continuity of business knowledge and ability to continually improve our processes and procedures</li><li>Responsible for performing ad hoc analysis and special project support</li><li>Respond to requests from key stakeholders and Zoetis colleagues in an efficient and timely manner.</li><li>Contribute to ongoing Zoetis efficiency opportunities and continuous improvement initiatives</li><li>Interest and experience in Power BI</li></ul><p></p><p></p><h3>EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE</h3><p><b>Education</b></p><ul><li>Undergraduate degree in Finance or Financial Accounting or Business Administration.</li></ul><p><b>Experience</b></p><ul><li>Atleast 7 years of experience in finance or accounting preferable with a multinational company.</li><li>Core understanding of manufacturing finance principles and a manufacturing P&amp;L</li><li>Senior leadership budget engagement</li><li>People Management a plus</li><li>Highly developed communication and inter-personal skills with the ability to influence and persuade through personal credibility, integrity and professionalism.</li><li>Previous exposure to preparation of Management PPT presentation decks</li><li>Experience of Sap 4 Hana a benefit</li><li>Experience in OneStream financial Management system a plus</li><li>Working knowledge of Anaplan, SAP, Hyperion Financial Management and/ or Essbase is a plus.</li><li>Knowledge and/or experience in inventory, cost accounting, manufacturing environment and cost center reporting is considered an asset</li><li>Knowledge of US GAAP, exposure to SOX controlled environments</li></ul><p><b>Skills</b></p><ul><li>Ability to