**Requisition ID** 51067
**Position Type** FT Permanent
**Recruiter **#LI-SSM1
**Posting Type** LI
**About Kerry**:
Kerry is a growth-led industry leader with Group revenue of over €8bn. We now reach 1.2bn consumers around the world with our positive & balanced nutritional solutions. We're able to meet the local demands of our 15,000+ customers in their markets where they operate; with our 147 manufacturing facilities - supported by 70+ Technology and innovation centres across 50 countries. This is only possible through the dedication and commitment of our 23,000+ talented people across the globe - who bring local and regional market insights and understanding, leveraging the global scale and scientific expertise of Kerry. Kerry prides itself on continuous innovation, technological creativity and business excellence in every area of the business, striving to enhance leadership positions in our consumer foods business and across global food and ingredients markets.
We are looking for people with ambition, vision and a commitment to excellence in a dynamic business environment to achieve and sustain this growth on a long-term basis. In return we offer stimulating and rewarding careers from employee to management to leadership levels in a global food organization. Being a truly global company, our employees have opportunities to develop their careers in a global environment, with training, career development and international opportunities across the Kerry world.
**About the role**:
The South-East Asia (SEA) business is a key growth region for our Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) region, Indonesia is the largest retail business within SEA and is a key enabler for growth and is also home to our new state-of-the-art taste manufacturing facility in Karawang. The facility is the company's largest greenfield investment in SEA and will support Kerry's food and beverage customers in all food categories, including Beverage, Snacks, and Bakery, which are among the company's fastest growing end use markets. This role will provide an excellent opportunity to engage business and finance leaders right to regional executive leaders and the role will partner closely with the Business Finance Lead for SEA Retail.
The Finance Business Partner is accountable for influencing business decisions aligned to Kerry's strategy and will support the management of business performance and have a strong understanding of commercial implications of financial decisions in the short, medium and longer term. This role will operate as a key connector across operations, commercial, R&D and finance to ensure end-to-end profitability management through top-line growth, margin management, cost wedge management and strong EBITDA growth in line with APMEA and SEA growth targets. The Finance Business Partner will provide financial insight, challenge & influence to support objectives and goals for the Business to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are achieved to help drive commercial success.
**Key responsibilities**:
- Driving accountability with the Indonesia Retail Lead, providing insights and transparency on business performance against ambitious growth targets specifically on revenue and margin growth and strong EBITDA growth through cost management.
- Aligning and embedding Kerry' global growth strategy into local markets, where relevant, by highlighting performance against leading indicators such as new business growth and customer activity in areas identified as a strategic growth priority.
- Drive key projects to boost EBITDA profitability across the business through collaboration with various business functions.
- Responsible for Pricing and Margin Management to assigned business, provide complete oversight with Strategic Pricing Leads over pricing and margin management for the relevant market. Ensuring highest level of profitability with reference to specific technology, commodity movements, raw material coverage, customer segment and competitor set. Key responsibilities include pricing efficiency and accuracy and successful implementation of periodic price increases.
- Manage senior level relationships across the local & sub-region landscape; mobilize sub-regional / regional support as required to grow and innovate, ensuring that Kerry is positioned as the most valued partner to it's customers.
- Partner and support the business in leading progress and performance aligned to strategy. Providing review, challenge, input & insight into performance reports and agreeing actions / changes to the plan.
- Drive efficiency in working capital which involves inventory management, trade payables, cash collection from our customers by working closely with commercial team as well relevant Global Shared Service (GBS) Teams.
- Ensure Finance is adhering to compliance, risk & control requirements through accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
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