Group FP&A Manager

Are you are talented and highly experienced finance professional looking to join the biggest jewelry company in the world? And do you enjoy working closely with senior executives on complex analytics supporting growth? Then this is the role for you! 

As Group FP&A Manager you will be a part of the Global Finance team. This is a critical role in the delivery of the Group's management accounts, completing key month end close processes and providing high level financial analysis that will be presented to senior management.

As FP&A Manager you will have extensive exposure to senior stakeholders in the business completing monthly performance reporting processes as well as ad-hoc analytics on growth numbers and company P&L specifically for our CFO. Moreover, you will provide financial reporting for both the ELT and BoD. 

Further responsibilities include:

• Support analysis and presentation of the Group management accounts - which is shared with senior management
• Ensure timely completion of key month end processes and high level financial analysis
• Be competent across a variety of monthly & quarterly reporting processes, including Group gross margin reporting and monthly performance reporting to the Board of Directors
• Maintain a high level of data output quality, ensuring financial information provided is accurate and precise
• Maintain associated financial system & models to support production of Group results
• Manage ad hoc senior stakeholder requests and support senior management up to CFO level
• Investigate monthly actuals vs forecast at both Group and market level 
• Support other functions, such as Investor Relations for external financial reporting purposes and Group Accounting 
• Serve as a link between the Global Finance Team and Pandora Production Thailand on manufacturing performance. Production Finance knowledge is a plus in this regard
• Prepare high level insight to senior stakeholders on monthly P&L position
• Capture key business performance drivers for actuals vs benchmarks, engaging with the business to ensure accuracy 
• Maintaining a business oversight role with monthly financial factbooks sitting within Global business services
• Proactively support the business by developing actionable insights in close collaboration with key stakeholders 

This is an exciting position, which we view as a feeder role into more senior roles in Pandora in the future. In other words, this is a great opportunity for a great talent to enter a strong career development path with Pandora!

Professional Experience

• Minimum 6-8 years’ experience
• Business commercial skillset, understanding the businesses growth drivers
• Highly detail oriented, with the ability to draw out key messaging for senior management
• Must have experience conversing with senior management, as there is direct exposure with the Group CFO
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities, allowing for clear and effective interactions with colleagues and stakeholders
• Be able to thrive in a fast paced environment both as an individual and team player
• Advanced user in excel and PowerPoint is a must
• Experience using consolidation systems (usage of HFM a plus)

Something about you
At Pandora, we recognise that it takes winning personalities to create winning cultures – and we believe it is of essence that you bring strong stakeholder management skills and an ability to collaborate cross-functionally and cross-culturally to secure business results. In addition, we would like you to have/be;

• Disciplined with an organized working style
• Have an analytical outlook, with a problem solving mindset
• Action oriented, resourceful and comfortable with ambiguity
• Effective stakeholder engagement
• Presentation skills
• Team oriented 
• Able to adapt to the business consolidation systems, quickly enquiring the knowledge to run queries against any financial metrics. 

Did we get your attention?  
We hope you got all your questions answered and feel confident and ready to apply for this position, however if you have more questions regarding the position, please contact:  

Christian Buch
Global Recruiter
chnbu@pandora.net

If you see yourself in the position and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply. We look forward to hearing from you!
   
We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com.  

Icing on the cake  
You will be working out of our beautiful Head Office in Copenhagen V, established in 2016 and designed to unite and inspire our teams. Besides our beautiful interior design, we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit. 

About Pandora
Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand. The company designs, manufactures and markets hand-finished jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,500 points of sale, including more than 2,500 concept stores.   

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 32,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery at two LEED-certified facilities in Thailand. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and will purchase only recycled silver and gold for crafting its jewellery by 2025 and halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated sales of DKK 26.5 billion (EUR 3.6 billion) in 2022.  

Pandora’s recruitment procedures are designed to be transparent and clear for all candidates. This helps us ensure that applicants are provided with a fair and equal opportunity to demonstrate their competencies and skills by removing blocking factors, possible biases, and risks of discrimination. We encourage everyone applying to our vacancies to refrain from adding identity-related elements such as a photo, marital status and age.