Senior Team Leader Regional FP&A

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The Reginal FP&A Team Leader is responsible for consolidated analysis and forecasting of financial results across multiple business units within the EMEA region. This role plays a key part in providing strategic financial insights, ensuring accurate financial reporting, and driving business performance through effective financial planning and analysis. The role requires strong analytical skills, leadership abilities, and cross-functional collaboration to support business decision-making.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities 

Lead a team of analysts

• Responsibility for performance management and development of a team fostering continuous learning and collaboration;
• Proactive monitoring of quality of work to address issues before customers are impacted;
• Coaching the team to continuously strive for improved performance.

Financial Reporting and Forecasting

• Lead the preparation and analysis of financial reporting in close collaboration with regional finance teams to identify and explain reasons behind variances to forecast, plan or previous performance;
• Manage the regional forecasting and budgeting process, consolidating inputs from multiple BUs and aligning with business objectives, ensuring timely submission;
• Review creation of forecast scenarios and forecast reports to document assumptions, surplus/gaps to target;
• Providing support to identify and explain reasons behind variances to various comparative scenarios at different levels in the organization;
• Active involvement in designing and maintaining standardized reports to support decision making of business leaders;
• Implements future changes in processes and system, supporting the testing coordinator to fully test the solution and train business users.

Process Improvements - Standardization

• Identification and implementation of opportunities for automation and process standardization;
• Participate actively in transforming finance processes in line with business objectives;
• Install a culture of sharing best practice and continuous improvement.

Ad-hoc requests

• • Act as business partner and ensure collaboration across different departments, hubs and regional teams;

Others:

• Monitor performance of tasks against agreed Service Levels and Metrics;
• Review quality and ensure maintenance of process documentation;
• Provide cover for other team members to support vacation or sickness.  

Knowledge & Skills: 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proactive and results-driven
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and the ability to work with high volumes of financial data accurately;
• Ability to work as part of a remote team;
• Strong communication skills with an ability to listen effectively and articulate queries;
• Fluent spoken and written English. Other language skills may be a further benefit.

Our offer:

• Pay for Performance incentive plan.

• Recognize and reward success.
• Provide adequate health care: medical subscription & eyeglasses reimbursement.
• Protect our associates during unexpected moments in life: life insurance, employee assistance program, aid allowance.
• Support your personal plans through the Flexible benefits budget. 
• We truly believe in a healthy balance between your personal and professional life, through:
  • Flexible work schedule - specific to the activity /department.
  • Hybrid work schedule
  • Vacation: 25 days/year
  • Additional days off for special events.
  • Library Subscription through Bookster
• Easter and Christmas Allowance
• Referral bonus for new colleagues recommended by you.
• Discount price to purchase Goodyear tires.
• Discount offering for products and services through agreed partnership.
• We provide the resources to continue developing your abilities and career to realize your full potential: whether it’s learning from assignments, exposure to new experiences or coaching and mentoring.
• Fun and CSR team is delegated to coordinate team events or community support initiatives.

Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 71,000 people and manufactures its products in 55 facilities in 22 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate.