Lenovo

MBG Finance Controller - EMEA

LENOVO – The Largest PC Company in the World

Lenovo is a global technology company with revenues in excess of 70 USD billion offering a broad portfolio of solutions addressing the needs of users from personal devices to entire Data Center infrastructures. Lenovo's business is built on product innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and a clearly defined competitive Protect & Attack Strategy. Its product lines include a full range of commercial and consumer PCs, servers, storage, networking, and workstations, and a family of mobile internet devices including smartphones, tablets and convertible products. It has approximately 60.000 employees globally serving customers in 160 countries. 

Motorola Mobility (a Lenovo Company) is one of the world’s fastest growing Smartphone providers, creating groundbreaking, affordable, high-quality products designed and built with the global customer in mind and it’s our people who make this all happen. We are thinkers, risk-takers and problem solvers, working together to constantly challenge the status quo. If you share our commitment to ingenuity, creativity and innovation, we want you to help us define our world of tomorrow. 

As a Forecasting, Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Senior Analyst you will join Motorola Mobility, based in Chineham Basingstoke, just 45 minutes on the train from London or 16 minutes from Reading working within the UK finance team in the finance HQ for Europe. You will be supporting the Go-To-Market teams who work directly with sales & marketing and have frequent exposure to the European Senior Leadership Team (SLT). We are looking for an individual happy to work in a fast paced, varied and highly interactive role, who will: 
 

• Support all requirements for forecasting & reporting of financial information for Europe region
• Gather, interpret, and evaluate financial information, including past financial data and short- to long-term financial forecasts.
• Create clear and concise reports to answer key data driven questions related to European performance
• Own the monthly “Mx” forecasting process, attending territory strategy meetings, consolidating financial submissions, building data into an “easy to use” summary for SLT review and managing the system submission to Global Finance.
• Involvement in the annual Winter Planning exercise, building excel models to support data submission and analysis
• Control, check and review the creation of the month end close report to ensure accuracy
• Participate in Month end & Sales analysis and review.
• Expectation that the role will develop in the short/mid term to encompass review and control of operating expenses and Advertising and Promotional budgets, including developing a suite of reports for the territory teams and analysis of actuals vs budget and ownership of Anaplan.
• Drive process enhancements and efficiency improvements including projects to develop the use of tableau and other reporting packages
• Liaise with Credit, AR and Accounting functions to provide support to the Go-to-market team and some involvement in adhoc and priority customer claim resolution
• Tracking pricing against regional guidance and supporting forecast processes

Scope of Responsibilities:

• Support Sales & Marketing Structure from a Finance stand point.
• Developing professional expertise, apply company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.
• Gathers data and prepares reports and spreadsheets.
• Provides well-informed observations, analysis, and recommendations.
• Supports Accounting month-end closing activities.

You will: 
Hold a relevant undergraduate degree (minimum)

Ideally be part CIMA / ACCA qualified
Have 3+ years’ experience of working within a finance department, ideally within a large matrix organisation 
Have strong IT / Excel skills
Have excellent communication skills, ready to interact with a number of stakeholders at all different levels 

Be a proactive, self starter with a motivation for problem solving
Be an individual with an analytical mindset and a great attention to detail 

In return you we can offer you: 
The opportunity to finish your ACCA / CIMA studies fully funded with study days outside of annual leave
An environment that supports career development and fast progression 
A collaborative and diverse team 
The opportunity to join a team that works closely with countries across the world with possible travel opportunities. 
Competitive salary 
25 days holiday plus the option to buy 5 more! + bank holidays
Private medical insurance
Private dental insurance
Generous pension contribution 
Life Assurance 

Free bus from Basingstoke train station 
Plus other benefits.

What We Will Offer You:

• An open and stimulating environment within one of the most forward-thinking IT companies
• Flat structures and fast decision-making processes
• A modern and flexible way of working to combine personal and professional life, working from home
• An international team with a high focus on Gender Diversity
• Attractive compensation package

We are looking forward to discussing this position with you soon!

Lenovo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any federal, state, or local protected class.