Welcome to Haleon. We're a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we've grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.
Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.
Now it's time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.
Job Purpose:
The role is part of Haleon's North Africa Consumer business and finance team. It reports into the North Africa Finance director and provides commercial finance partnership to the General Manager, Country Manager as well as the Marketing, Supply Chain, Commercial Expert and HR teams looking after Egypt market. It requires deep financial knowledge, commercial acumen, strategic insights, a broad perspective, rigorous analysis, proactive challenge and advice as well as project management skills.
Key Responsibilities:
Business Partnering:
- Act as the primary contact point for the Leadership Team and their teams to advise on growth and margin opportunities
- Provide analysis, assistance, and advice to management as required by the Business Unit, Finance Director, General Manager and Leadership Team
- Actively participate in key projects and provide input to business case development and general financial and business expertise.
- Help create robust business cases for significant business decisions; analyse proposals brought forward for review.
- Business Analysis: Support Leadership Team in business analysis, forecasting and setting ambition for key brands and financial/commercial consultancy
Planning:
- Responsible for the timely and accurate submissions of forecasts, Plan and updates
- Run the Monthly Performance Review meetings (MPRs) with the GM, the FD and relevant attendees
- Consolidate and analyse any other information necessary for a healthy growth (Stock in Trade, price volume, Advertising &Promotion and overheads etc).
- Responsible for the consolidation, analysis and reporting of the forecast and budget as well as active involvement in plan reviews and presentation of plan.
- Manage the cost flip exercise to ensure there are no exposures after COGS are updated.
Reporting:
- Develop and prepare various internal financial and commercial reports along with related analysis and commentary as decision support tools for the leadership team.
Projects:
- Participate in key projects within North Arica and MEA to help grow the top line and improve profitability
Why You
Basic qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in a FMCG multinational company
- High level of technical financial competence in Financial Accounting and Reporting, Management Accounting and Budgeting.
- Relevant finance experience and a proven record of success in a matrix environment working with multiple customers
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to proactively challenge and advise
- Experience of dealing confidently with senior management
- Broad perspective and business insight
- Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple priorities and deliver high quality outputs within deadlines
- Strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills
- Experience of developing creative business solutions
- Excellent powerpoint and excel skills
Preferred qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- MBA (with heavy finance components) or equivalent experience
- Effective knowledge of all accounting standards, including IFRS, US GAAP and Sarbanes-Oxley
- Delivering on value opportunities while balancing risk and opportunities (Stewardship & Governance)
- Developing highly effective working relationships and managing key stakeholders to achieve the partnership status with your business
Job Posting End Date
2026-07-29
Equal Opportunities
Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It's important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.
During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees.
The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.
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If you require a reasonable adjustment or accommodation or other assistance to apply for a job at Haleon at any stage of the application process, please let your recruiter know by providing them with a description of specific adjustments you are requesting. We'll provide all reasonable adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process and treat all information you provide us in confidence.
Note to candidates
The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.
