Financial Planning & Analysis Manager; Cash

Position: Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (Cash)
Location: Brighton and Hove

Welcome to Haleon. We're a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we've grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter - one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands - including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® - lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it's time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose - to deliver better everyday health with humanity - at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

About

the role

The Group Financial Planning & Analysis Manager (Cash) will deliver world class financial analysis, planning, forecasting and budgeting processes for Haleon and ensure robust and accurate cash projections for the group to drive performance and long-term value creation. The role is high-exposure with strong leadership opportunities to lead and transform Global Processes through a broad range of stakeholders ranging across the Operating Units (OU) and Other Key Group Functions.

Key

responsibilities

• Own and actively manage Group in-year cash flow performance, providing clear visibility of actuals, forecasts and full-year landing, identifying risks and opportunities and driving interventions to deliver cash commitments.
• Lead the Group cash actuals and forecasting cycle, including OU and functional engagement, consolidation, challenge, analysis and preparation for senior management sign-off.
• Deliver high-quality cash performance insight, identifying the underlying drivers of FCF and working-capital movements, distinguishing timing from structural performance and translating analysis into clear actions and forward-looking implications.
• Partner with Operating Units and key functions to challenge performance and drive delivery, using exception-based analysis to focus conversations on material variances, forecast risks and opportunities, and required management actions.
• Translate complex cash performance into clear Executive-level narratives and decision support, including CFO reporting, performance bridges, presentations and other materials for senior leadership
• Continuously improve Group cash performance management, strengthening reporting, analytics, processes and tools to create a more automated, insight-led and scalable cash performance capability.

Strategic Long-term Cashflow Planning including Global Business Partnering

• Lead and support the Annual Business Plan (ABP) and Integrated Growth Plan (IGP) processes, including the strategic partnering throughout the organisation, target setting, preparation of guidance, modelling and process ownership, influencing & consolidations, and creation of Haleon Executive Team level presentational materials.
• Lead the translation of long-term cashflow conversion for Haleon Executive Remuneration Targets, scenario modelling, and monitoring & communication against those & other targets.
• Lead Group oversight of key capital expenditure performance, including spend tracking, forecast challenge, return-on-investment assessments and identification of risks and opportunities and lead the Capital Investment Review Board process.
• Support strategic working-capital optimisation programmes, partnering across Treasury, Commercial, GFS and other relevant functions to identify opportunities, establish initiatives and targets, track delivery and drive sustainable cash improvement.
• Lead and support…