Haleon plc is a British multinational consumer healthcare company with headquarters in Weybridge, Surrey. It is the largest consumer healthcare business in the world, with brands including Sensodyne toothpaste, Panadol and Advil painkillers and Centrum vitamins

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Finance Business Partner, SSA

Job TypeFull Time

QualificationBA/BSc/HND

Experience5 - 7 years

LocationNairobi

Job FieldFinance / Accounting / Audit

About the role

The Finance Business Partner drives performance through insight, challenge, and decision support. Partnering closely with commercial and cross-functional leaders, the role shapes plans and forecasts, evaluates investments, and enables profitable growth.

Key responsibilities

• Act as a trusted finance partner to commercial and cross-functional leaders, providing insight, challenge, and recommendations to drive profitable growth.
• Own financial performance management for assigned brands/channels: deliver clear analysis of actuals, risks and opportunities, and outlook.
• Lead planning, target setting, and forecasting (including Latest Estimates) in partnership with Sales, ensuring transparent assumptions and regular cadence updates.
• Control, track, and coordinate trade investments and commercial spend with key stakeholders; provide governance and post-evaluation.
• Partner with marketing/trade marketing to evaluate A&P investments, including ROI and effectiveness tracking to improve programme outcomes.
• Build business cases and P&Ls for innovation, portfolio, and revenue management initiatives; support go/no-go decisions and benefits tracking.
• Partner with supply chain to manage product and logistics costs, monitor COGS, and identify efficiency and cost-saving opportunities.
• Deliver management reporting and variance analysis versus plan/budget; contribute to period-end close activities with relevant finance partners.
• Support ad hoc analysis and projects from regional and commercial stakeholders as required.

Qualifications and skills

Essential

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 5 - 7 years of experience in finance, FP&A, and/or finance business partnering, ideally within FMCG or similarly complex industries.
• Solid technical finance capability, including accounting standards, performance management, forecasting, ROI evaluation, and strategic analysis.
• Strategic and analytical thinker with the ability to challenge constructively, simplify complexity, and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Experience operating in complex, matrixed and global environments; collaborative, proactive, and comfortable working independently in fast‑paced settings.
• Exposure to auditing, controlling, statutory accounting, and commercial spend management is an advantage.

• Act as a trusted finance partner to commercial and cross-functional leaders, providing insight, challenge, and recommendations to drive profitable growth.
• Own financial performance management for assigned brands/channels: deliver clear analysis of actuals, risks and opportunities, and outlook.
• Lead planning, target setting, and forecasting (including Latest Estimates) in partnership with Sales, ensuring transparent assumptions and regular cadence updates.
• Control, track, and coordinate trade investments and commercial spend with key stakeholders; provide governance and post-evaluation.
• Partner with marketing/trade marketing to evaluate A&P investments, including ROI and effectiveness tracking to improve programme outcomes.
• Build business cases and P&Ls for innovation, portfolio, and revenue management initiatives; support go/no-go decisions and benefits tracking.
• Partner with supply chain to manage product and logistics costs, monitor COGS, and identify efficiency and cost-saving opportunities.
• Deliver management reporting and variance analysis versus plan/budget; contribute to period-end close activities with relevant finance partners.
• Support ad hoc analysis and projects from regional and commercial stakeholders as required.

• Strategic and analytical thinking
• Ability to challenge constructively
• Ability to simplify complexity
• Effective communication with senior stakeholders
• Experience operating in complex, matrixed and global environments
• Collaborative
• Proactive
• Comfortable working independently in fast-paced settings
• Exposure to auditing, controlling, statutory accounting, and commercial spend management is an advantage

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 5 - 7 years of experience in finance, FP&A, and/or finance business partnering, ideally within FMCG or similarly complex industries.
• Solid technical finance capability, including accounting standards, performance management, forecasting, ROI evaluation, and strategic analysis.