Trivium Packaging · 1 week ago
Business Process Owner - Financial Planning
Trivium Packaging is a global sustainability leader in metal packaging, seeking a Business Process Owner for Financial Planning. The role involves designing and improving forecasting processes, serving as a liaison between Finance, IT, and business stakeholders to ensure efficiency and alignment with strategic objectives.
ManufacturingPackaging ServicesWholesale
Responsibilities
Define and drive the global strategy for financial planning, ensuring continuous alignment with business growth and transformation goal
Drive global harmonization of planning processes across all business units and regions, balancing standardization with local needs
Serve as a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive team on all matters related to financial planning innovation and digitalization
Define and maintain the global standard for financial forecasting processes
Develop and document process maps, policies, and procedures
Ensure alignment with corporate planning cycles and financial reporting requirements
Oversee the execution of forecasting cycles, ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards
Act as the first point of contact for process-related queries and escalations
Maintain close collaboration with the Finance Global Process Owner to align financial forecasting and transactional finance processes, ensuring that process improvements are coordinated effectively
Support local finance teams in applying the standard forecasting process
Identify process inefficiencies and lead initiatives to enhance accuracy, speed, and usabilityStrong command of integrated business planning methodologies and financial forecasting best practices
Ability to design and implement robust process controls and compliance frameworks across planning cycles
Collaborate with data and analytics teams to integrate predictive forecasting techniques
Engage with key stakeholders (e.g., FP&A, Controlling, Business Units) to gather requirements and feedback
Facilitate cross-functional workshops and training sessions
Communicate process changes and updates effectively across the organization
Monitor and report on process KPIs and identify corrective actions when KPI are not up to the norm
Own the end-to-end financial forecasting process and ensure its effectiveness and compliance
Act as a change agent to drive adoption of standardized forecasting practices
Monitor process performance using KPIs and implement corrective actions as needed
Ensure documentation is up-to-date and accessible to all relevant stakeholders
Represent the Planning CoE in global forums and governance bodies related to forecasting
Solution lead Planning & Forecasting (by SAC) having a clear “product” vision and development roadmap, lead the evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies (e.g., AI-driven forecasting, advanced analytics) to future-proof financial planning capabilities
Working with SAC user community, proactively seek and identify current and future requirements of business or improvement potentials
Assess demands, check cross-domain integration, feasibility, and effort
Prepare prioritization of demands and plan demand pipeline
Coordinate implementation from design to test & release, including user community sign off
Prioritize incident resolutions by assigning them to development resources (internal & external)
Plan change management & enablement, lead communication w/ SAC user community
Monitor quality and data processing efficiency for data models and overall SAC to pro-actively derive enhancements
Collaborate with SAC model managers: create value adding use cases, foster self-service and explorative BI, promote existing managed data models & functionalities
Design SAC technical architecture including interfaces and tool selections; continuously optimize SAC architecture and landscape to reflect business requirements
Solution lead of SAC (and corresponding data process)
Approval of demands for SAC implementation (in alignment with business priorities; up to certain effort limit)
Approval of transport to production (releases)
Responsible for performance, standardization, technical data quality and well-functioning of SAC architecture; compliance with defined technical guidelines
Qualification
Required
BSC or MSC, MBA
Fluent English is a must, any additional European language is welcome
8+ years of experience in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), controlling, or finance operations with a proven experience in financial planning process ownership and process improvement with at least 3–5 years in a senior specialist role
Expert-level understanding of integrated business planning (IBP), driver-based forecasting, and rolling forecasts in manufacturing industries
Proven track record of delivering complex planning solutions at scale, ideally in a global context, incl. strong project and resource management skills (incl. agile methodologies, e.g., SCRUM)
3+ years of people management experience
Leadership, training and coaching skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a continuous improvement mindset
Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a global, matrixed environment
Structured, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple priorities
Strong coordination skills, collaboration with key stakeholder is a must
Expert knowledge of requirements engineering, data modelling & systems design, visualizations
Expert knowledge of SAC customizing and programming capabilities
Knowledge of DWH/ETL, SAC, architectures and tools
Ability and interest to identify and introduce new technologies and methods
Regularly follow up new developments and the SAP roadmap to stay on top of new technical functionalities and how they can be used for Trivium
Company
Trivium Packaging
Trivium Packaging is a company that manufactures metal packaging solutions that include pet food cans, seafood cans, beverage bottles. It is a sub-organization of Exal.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Ardagh Group
2019-07-15Corporate Round
Leadership Team
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