Senior Finance Advisor, Castrol Global Functions

Key Accountabilities

Performance Management

• Work closely with dedicated support from the Finance & Business Technology (FBT) team to prepare timely, accurate, and reliable financial and management information to support business decisions. Develop and explain material for business performance leadership team discussions, including key messages, analysis, and insights. Provide performance insights to business stakeholders with a strong focus on managing costs.

Business Partnering and Performance Insights

• Build and maintain proactive business relationships with relevant Business/Function Leadership teams. With dedicated FBT support, drive the Performance Management agenda, ensuring robust and timely forecasts and delivery of MI analysis and commentary. Monitor and support cost reduction initiatives, ensuring effective tracking and accurate analysis of costs. Support ad-hoc and strategic business decisions.

Actuals Analysis

• Work closely with FBT support to analyse monthly/quarterly actuals, including trend analysis and explaining actuals vs forecasts. Highlight areas where performance is behind or ahead of plan and suggest interventions. Collaborate with the Global Marketing team to understand and explain movements in Global ASP.

Business Planning

• Play a key role in developing the long-term plan and annual plan update process. Coordinate planning for Global Marketing, GAM, and Castrol Head Office teams. Analyse plan data in SAP-based systems, generate Power BI reports, prepare presentation material with commentary, and answer leadership or central finance queries.

Economic Evaluation

• Support business teams in conducting economic analysis to evaluate financial viability of projects or scenarios. Review and provide insights into economic drivers and value sources, while challenging assumptions to ensure robust outcomes.

Control Environment

• Perform control-related tasks including maintenance of DOA, GRIR analysis, intercompany recharge setup, review of global marketing cost pools, fixed asset review, and due diligence activities.

Recharges

• Play a key role in the global royalty and residual fee process, ensuring accuracy and completeness of performance reporting, reconciliation to financial data/forecasting, variance commentary, and addressing business queries. Assist CFO delegate with overall sign-off of recharge calculation.

Simplification

• Promote use of standard systems and reports while driving standardization and simplification of performance management processes.

Education & Experience

• Degree in Business and/or Finance or equivalent
• 15 years of experience in commercial finance roles, preferably within FMCG
• Expert knowledge of Plan to Perform processes with strong digital literacy
• Excellent analytical and insight capabilities with continuous improvement mindset
• Strong communication skills to translate complex requirements into outcomes
• Strategic vision and business leadership with ability to anticipate issues and create solutions
• Experience with financial systems such as SAP, Microsoft products, and visualization tools like Power BI
• Ability to work across diverse global teams and cultures
• High standards of integrity and role modeling of organizational values