Regional Functional Expert & Financial Reporting Manager in Mt. Olive, NJ

Job description

A mutually rewarding experience.

Work. Realize your ambitions. And realize there's more to being in business than just making a profit. That's the Mars philosophy. And the opportunity we offer every one of our Associates. An opportunity to take what you do and make it mean more for you, for those around you and for the planet. What you get here is challenging, interesting work. You get the tools you need to do a great job and you get to have the best possible people on your side to help you do it. And at the same time as getting to find ways to do business better today than we did it yesterday and driving a great career, you also get to build a more enlightened business and drive sustainability.

Because it's never just about a single person, a single project or a single brand. It's about how you can grab everything that's within your reach here and use it to pursue mutual, long-term gain. It's about having ideas. And ideals. Being prepared to risk failure because the promise of success means we'll all be a little better off. It's that mix of integrity and ambition that makes Mars such a special place to work. And why working here is always about more than just a job.

About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world's best-loved brands: M&M's®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN'S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

Mars Corporate is looking for a

Regional Functional Expert & Financial Reporting Manager in Mt. Olive, NJ

Purpose of Role

The Regional Functional Expert (RFE) & Financial Reporting Manager responsible to lead the North American Region with Support and Training for the Management Reporting System of Mars (HELIOS) to ensure timely corporate submissions. This is achieved by providing the North American units with both functional and technical guidance on existing and modified business requirements that support the HELIOS submission process. Leading small activities to maintain the current system or larger projects to dramatically change the way the business processes work. This role develops relationships with the unit HELIOS users and management reporting teams to share experiences and best practice. This role has a responsibility to identify training needs and deliver training in a standard course or targeted functions.

This role also has specific responsibility to support the Business Unit Management teams with standard reporting packages for each period close. This requires direct contact with the management team to provide the necessary customer service to ensure packages are modified and delivered as required by the management team with the highest level of quality.

Requests are made to provide ad hoc financials to support business decisions. With complete access to Mars financials this is a great responsibility, to protect and deliver the correct information to those with the right level of authority. These requests are made from all management levels.

Key Responsibilities

Manage all aspects of supporting HELIOS for the North America Region.

·  Lead support and administer of both functional and technical changes to HELIOS in support of modified business requirements; model set-ups; corporate validation routines; and global hierarchies.

Support units in HELIOS Submissions and business process change.

·  Expert in Financial Systems, primarily HELIOS and FIS/Essbase, but also SAP.
·  Deliver the highest level of service and support as Regional Functional Expert
·  Drive adoption of standard reporting options from HELIOS

Manage GBU Food Management with Standard reporting packages.

·  Manage/Prepare/Deliver Period Reporting packages through the use of Corporate Systems (HELIOS, & FIS/Essbase) and Microsoft Office products (Excel & PowerPoint). Ensure the highest level of quality.

Project management of on-going activities i.e. impact of organization changes.

·  Review and challenge (when necessary) existing internal processes, gain and share best practices and drive system efficiency and effectiveness.
·  Translate process requirements into responsible, efficient System solutions

Share Best Practice worldwide. Establish strong network of knowledge sharing.

·  Work with various global teams to ensure alignment of HELIOS.
·  Develop and train the HELIOS user base both in terms of skills as well as understanding.
·  Attend competency and other training as recommended and required.

Regional Function Expert

Support 13 Period submissions and 2 Plan submissions each year.

·  North American Region includes 40 submission units
·  Deliver semi-annual key user training and “as-needed” lite user training.
·  Copilot units with business change impacts to HELIOS process.
·  Participate in Global RFE Training and Activities, not limited to: Annual Face to Face, CIP Testing of new releases, Global Audios

Financial Reporting

Deliver high quality financial packages for multiple Business Unit Management Teams. This includes:

·  Specific standard packages to support the Management Team
·  Support the financial planning cycle by preparing packages as requested from Management team.
·  Manage numerous ad hoc data requests for analysis and support. With information used to support business decisions, the information must be clear and transparent.

Mission Critical Competencies

·  Business Process and Information Technology Effectiveness – associate will need to implement, monitor, and continually improve processes in support of efficient and effective reporting; this position is heavily involved with financial reporting systems; associate must be comfortable migrating from one system to another dependent upon the reporting requirement.
·  Analysis and Evaluation of Business Activities – associate will develop benchmarks, record metrics and prepare graphs in support of key business trends for use in strategic analyses.
·  Financial Control – associate must have the ability to identify and assess reporting risks, understand reporting control concepts, document key controls and apply self-check audit practices.
·  Communication skills – necessary to work and communicate with local and global management teams.
·  Planning & Organization skills – ability to meet tight deadlines and plan out on-going project initiatives.
·  Strong Customer Service skills.

Decision Making Authority and Impact

·  This position has the freedom and responsibility to implement changes that can improve workflow and achieve higher efficiencies.
·  Associate has authority to review and challenge (when necessary) existing internal processes and recommend changes that will drive systems efficiency and effectiveness.
·  Develop and train the HELIOS user base both in terms of skills as well as understanding.
·  Decision making impacts:
·  Support the financial planning cycle by generating schedules preparing packages as requested.
·  Prepare ad hoc reports and packages for management/internal customers as requested.

People Management Responsibility

Indirect (management and non-management associates)

The associate is in contact with both management and non-management associates from the North American submission units, the Business Unit management teams and Corporate Office associates.

Key Functional Skills/Knowledge

·  Excellent Problem Solving under critical time requirements
·  Applications used in this position include: Microsoft Office, HELIOS, Essbase, SmartView, SAP, and Adobe Editor
·  Microsoft Office products with strong Excel knowledge, Macro knowledge a plus
·  FIS/Essbase a plus but can be trained with above skills
·  Control-oriented such as in spreadsheet design, system tie-out and excellent understanding of financials processes
·  Strong analytical skills including the ability to interpret financial information.
·  Ability to organize, prioritize (identify the critical and have a sense of urgency for high priority requests), and know what is expected (in line with Gallup Q01).
·  Innovative, always thinking of more efficient ways of working.
·  Ability to implement well thought-out solutions to issues.
·  Strong communication skills including attentive listening, can accurately restate an assignment, share ideas for improvement and learnings with others.
·  Excellent functional understanding of systems design (HELIOS)

Key Experiences

·  3 – 5 years’ work experience preferred in Finance area with background / working knowledge of Financial Statements and Customer Care
·  Must be proficient in the use of Microsoft Excel.
·  Working knowledge of HELIOS and SAP

Desired Education

·  Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance or Accounting is a plus.

Travel Requirement

·  The job holder will be required to travel occasionally. We estimate this will be at maximum 20% to 30% of the time. This includes International Travel.

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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