FP&A Lead

About the role

At Kraft Heinz, our Finance team plays a critical role in creating and protecting value through strategic insights, rigorous analysis, and process excellence. We are looking for a seasoned FP&A Lead to join our UKI Business Unit Finance Organization. This role is pivotal in shaping financial strategy, enabling business decisions, and driving performance visibility across the region.

The FP&A Lead will oversee strategic business planning, forecasting, and process optimization, ensuring data integrity and analytical accuracy across systems. Reporting into the Finance Director, this position manages two direct reports and a team of 5 people and key stakeholder to Leadership Team for the UKI BU and Zone.

Key Responsabilities:

- Lead UKI Business Unit financial planning, including Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Monthly Forecast Process and the Financial Month Closing.
- Partner with business leaders to translate strategy into actionable financial plans, supporting decision-making through robust modelling and deep insights.
- Drive process optimization and leverage technology for greater data accuracy and visibility, ensuring adoption of Single Source of Truth (SST) practices.
- Manage and mentor the FP&A Commercial and ZBB teams to deliver accurate and timely reporting, analysis, and system-driven efficiencies.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and finance policies, while contributing to the transformation of finance processes through digital tools.
- Collaborate on initiatives related to Zero-Based Budgeting, Price-Volume-Mix (PVM) analysis, and cost-benefit evaluations.

Key Capabilities and Tools

- Strategic Planning & Forecasting
- Financial Analysis & Modeling
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Data Democratization & Process Automation
- Systems: Tableau, Power BI, SAP, Hyperion, SST, ZBB tools

Qualifications

- Proven experience in Financial Planning & Analysis within a complex, fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership experience with direct people management.
- Advanced technical proficiency in Tableau, Power BI, and Excel.
- Exceptional communication and business partnering skills.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver results with agility and precision.

What you’ll need

- 6+ years’ finance roles experience

- Strong strategic and commercial mindset

- Ability to influence and operate credibly with senior leaders

- Ability to structure ambiguous problems and turn imperfect data into clear, actionable recommendations

- Highly analytical; comfortable working with large and messy datasets

- Experience conducting stakeholder interviews and synthesising insights

- Collaborative working style , strong interpersonal skills

- Bachelor’s degree (minimum)

Professional Attributes

- Influencing & Relationship building At Kraft Heinz you’ll work in a highly cross-functional, fast-paced environment, often needing to influence decisions without formal authority. Therefore it’s important you can build trusted relationships quickly and align diverse stakeholders to drive results

- Communication Skills At Kraft Heinz you’ll be exposed to senior management, no matter your level. Therefore it’s important you have excellent communication skills to deal with all kinds of different stakeholders.

- Resilience You’re able to recover after a disappointment or set back, and a demanding and dynamic environment is what keeps you energized.

- Ability to Simplify We like to keep it simple, and execute fast. You are able to bring simple solutions to complex challenges.

- Analytical We’re a very data driven company. You know how to translate complex data into a simple solution.

- Curiosity, positivity & enthusiasm You have a growth mindset, and people know you as the motivator of your team.

- Great teammate Achieving with the team is simply the best. You’re a team player, which means you’re sometimes a leader, sometimes a follower, but always working towards the same common goal, together.

What we offer you

- An ambitious employer with an industry-recognised career development pathway
- A meritocratic, pay for performance approach
- A fun, collaborative office culture that celebrates good food and good times with regular events and socials
- An active network of Business Resource Groups, sponsored by leadership, that promote education, celebration, & allyship, helping to create an inclusive work environment
- Flexible and hybrid working approach, including ability to work from abroad
- Family-friendly; market leading parental leave benefits & sponsored nursery scheme

Wellbeing

- Private medical cover & Digital GP
- Comprehensive Life Assurance & Group Income Protection
- Exclusive gym discounts & cycle to work scheme
- Premium membership to Calm App
- A variety of amazing sports teams & clubs!
- 3 volunteering days per year (e.g. Soup Kitchen, Magic Breakfast)

As a Disability Confident employer, we are happy to accommodate any reasonable adjustments you may need during our screening and interview process.