Junior Manager, Cash Planning - Maturing

Job title: Junior Manager, Cash Planning - Maturing

Contract: permanent

Location: Budapest

About the Function

Our Finance team deliver sustainable growth for our business, customers, and much-loved brands. We’re part of a $12.2 billion gross profit organisation, responsible for driving an exceptional level of performance and creating the potential for future growth.

Whether we’re utilising our digital capabilities and analytics to inform our business strategy or creating capacity to invest in the future — no two days are the same in our Finance team. Wherever your skills lie, we’ll help you to learn and develop, supporting you along the way in our inclusive culture.

About the role

• Lead the delivery and continuous improvement of global financial planning processes for the most complex markets and regions, ensuring planning activities are executed consistently, efficiently, and in line with global standards.
• Partner with senior Finance, functional, and market stakeholders to enhance planning effectiveness, improve forecast quality, and support business decision-making through robust planning processes and insights.

Role Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end delivery of financial planning processes for Maturing inventory cash flow line, ensuring adherence to global standards, governance, and planning timelines.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business requirements, resolve complex planning challenges, and drive adoption of global planning processes and solutions.
• Lead the implementation of planning process improvements, systems enhancements, and analytical capabilities to improve planning effectiveness, forecast quality, and operational efficiency.
• Monitor planning performance through KPIs and governance forums, identifying opportunities to strengthen controls, standardization, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a subject matter expert for assigned planning processes, supporting cross-functional initiatives and sharing best practices across the Planning organization.

What you'll bring

• University degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.
• 6–8 years of Finance experience, with significant exposure to FP&A, financial planning, forecasting, or business performance management.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end planning processes, governance, and finance systems.
• Experience leading complex process improvement or planning initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to partner effectively with senior Finance and business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Continuous improvement mindset with the ability to work independently in a global, matrix organization.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Flexible Working Statement

Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you, so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.

Diversity statement

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.