Merchandising Finance Manager

Being a part of Ireland’s largest foodservice provider means joining a team that is passionate about the world of food and dedicated to the growth and support of the industry. Though we have always been a local organisation, being a part of Sysco means we retain an international focus that offers our employees the opportunities to learn, develop and pursue the career they have always wanted.

Our team at Sysco is the best at what they do, and it is through your hard work, passion and dedication that we’ve been able to become the largest foodservice provider on the island of Ireland. However, as we grow, we want you to grow too.

Now, we are looking for a Merchandising Finance Manager to join our team. This role will play a key part in the overall growth of the organisation along with helping to maintain our purpose – connecting the world through food and taking care of one another.

Key Accountabilities

• Financial management and oversight of the Merchandising function, providing the necessary support to the Merchandising leadership team to deliver our growth ambitions
• Provide a strong financial control environment, ensuring robust and accurate governance
• Partner closely with Finance leaders in the wider Finance function, working collaboratively to report and explain results
• Function as an independent adviser to the Executive leadership team
• Supporting the Merchandising team to optimise our performance through accurate analysis, which is data driven and practical. Understand and drive commercial performance by identifying, owning and developing the commercial KPI’s and related dashboards and reports
• Continue to drive for automated solutions in reporting and planning to help find efficiencies, accuracy & insight. Lead team in continuously identifying and driving process and reporting improvements bringing added value to business partners and enhancing end to end visibility
• Supporting with negotiations on key contracts with external vendors, alongside the Category and Trading teams
• Engage in SKU reviews, promotional planning, rebates & commercial tenders
• Working with the Procurement and Supply Chain teams to understand cost of supply for all products. Strong focus on cost of goods reporting and associated variance analysis
• Assessing the end-to-end financial impact of ad hoc projects and initiatives, drawing on a broad network and playing a key role in the decision-making process
• Ensuring project teams maintain financial diligence at every stage of project delivery, from initiation and business case creation, cost control throughout programme delivery, benefits realisation, and post implementation review
• Develop and support direct reports to meet agreed performance objectives and ways of working; identify and progress areas for personal development aligned to the Sysco purpose
• Manage the month-end financial reporting process for related financial statement areas and adhere to reporting timelines
• Manage the periodic and ad hoc reporting requirements of local commercial and financial information and metrics to the wider Sysco International and Corporate functions
• Support ad hoc projects and requests as required

Key Attributes Required

• Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with minimum 3+ years PQE of relevant multi-national experience in a fast-paced environment, including people management experience
• Previous experience in delivered foodservice or FMCG industries would be helpful
• A strong commercial awareness with an understanding of industry trends, competitors and customers would be desirable for this role
• Excellent communication and framing skills
• Ability to work on own initiative and to influence effectively at all levels of the organisation
• Creative & innovative individual with a continuous improvement mind set, with the ability to maintain and further enhance controls and process
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks simultaneously while meeting deadlines
• High competency in MS Excel and database systems
• Experience of Microsoft ERPs an advantage but not essential
• Strong presentation skills
• Strategic thinker
• Resilient attitude and desire to see things through to completion

The duties and responsibilities outlined in this job description are neither definitive nor restrictive and may change in detail from time-to-time to meet the changing needs of the business.

Sysco is an equal opportunity employer.