Finance Business Partner

**Description**:

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BizTX: Co-Creating WOW Through Digital Innovation

It’s an exciting time to be part of BizTX at Twinings Ovaltine. At the heart of this iconic brand, we’re on a mission to drive exponential growth and productivity through cutting-edge technology to transform the business globally.

We’re not here to simply provide IT services. We’re technology leaders and strategic partners, co-creating innovative solutions that help the business run, grow, and transform. Everything we do is guided by our commitment to ‘WOW’ our consumers, customers and colleagues. WOW experiences, WOW solutions, and WOW impact.

Our people think differently. We have an exponential mindset that helps us push boundaries and shape what’s next. The future at Twinings Ovaltine is full of possibility and we’d love you to be a part of it.

Note: This is a 12-month fixed-term contract role, with the possibility of logical extension.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Financial Management, Planning & Reporting**
- Monitor, control, and report overhead costs for three IT cost centres to Business Transformation & Technology, particularly the GM, Director of Technology, and IT team.
- Complete new SAP S4H/SAC infrastructure and processes to accommodate a restructured BiZTX reporting architecture for new functional owners
- Responsibility for preparing project quarterly forecasts and annual budgets and for senior stakeholders.
- Partner with the cost owners and provide financial insight into their costs and opportunities, leveraging efficiencies across the global structure.
- Responsibility for reviewing postings, invoices and POs and calculating accruals.
- Production of monthly dashboards together with variance explanations.
- Consideration and monitoring of the impact of the projects and global opex costs on the Groups current transfer pricing model for service charges and appropriate enhancement in conjunction with the ABF International tax department.
- Support and assist ABF tax department with project costs, providing calculations and explanation of treatment and allocations
- Support senior stakeholders in setting targets to manage the cost of their teams, provide recommendations against the budget and financial viability for the year to go.
- Support senior stakeholders in deciding and defining Annual Centre of Excellence, providing support to enable stability during the transition from project to BAU
- Partner with local markets to ensure that the appropriate accounting treatment is carried out for projects and local BiZTX resources, by ensuring accurate allocation across projects/opex
- Recharge associated project costs to the relevant business units in accordance with the transfer pricing model.

**HQ Overheads: Budgeting, Forecasting & Actual Reporting**
- Manage budgeting and forecasting for HQ overheads; liaise regularly with Group FC and FP&A to align global OPEX/CAPEX.
- Preparation of numbers and deck for Finance annual budget review and supporting Senior Managers in delivering.
- Consolidate departmental overheads and produce variance analysis for senior management; prepare finance review decks as part of Quarterly Budget Reviews.
- Reconcile forecasts and actuals within PAL (overhead cube/P&L); coordinate with HQ operations to gather capital creditor, accruals, and prepayment schedules.
- Explanation of all key variances forecast to forecast and actual vs budgets and forecasts.
- Liaise with HQ operations management to provide capital creditor, accruals and prepayment schedules periodically.
- Approvals in vendor on-boarding process to ensure SOD compliance

**Finance Partnering & Engagement**
- Act as a strategic finance partner to cost owners, delivering insight, cost-efficiency analysis, and recommendations aligned with budgets.
- Support senior stakeholders in setting team objectives, budgeting, and ensuring continuity in reporting as the project transitions to BAU.
- Partner with local markets to ensure correct accounting treatment of BiZTX projects/OPEX and accurate cost allocations.
- Lead and mentor the Finance Assistant—ensuring smooth daily operations and structured professional development.

**Financial Insight & Automation**
- Drive automation in SAP S4H and SAC reporting, integrating both SAP and non‑SAP entities for real-time insight.
- Embed policies (spend, POs, accruals) into automated systems to streamline governance and oversight.
- Automate transfer pricing recharge processes, ensuring alignment with policy compliance and audit requirements.
- Ensure all system-generated reporting supports audit readiness, providing rationale and documentation for audit and tax teams.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- Qualified ACCA/ACA/CIMA, minimum of 5 years’ PQE experience in Finance, experience within commercial financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting knowledge would be preferred.
- Interest and curiosity working in Technology, leveraging automation and driving value from