Finance Manager CZ & SK (FMCG)

The Role

The Finance Manager CZ & SK is a key member of the local leadership team within an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. Based in Prague, this role holds full financial responsibility for both the Czech Republic and Slovakia, offering the opportunity to shape financial strategy across two markets.

As Finance Manager CZ & SK, you will lead financial planning, reporting, and performance management, with end-to-end ownership of finance, accounting, tax, reporting, and controlling activities. Partnering closely with Operations, Sales, Marketing, P&C, and Supply Chain, you will drive performance through insight, decision support, and constructive commercial partnership, acting as a true Connected Leader and role model of Imperial behaviors.

Principle Accountabilities

• Drive business performance and insight
  Analyze financial performance against budgets and forecasts, identify variances and opportunities, define and track KPIs, and deliver clear, actionable insights, reporting, and scenario analysis to support market and cluster decision-making.
  
  

• Lead financial planning and strategic forecasting
  Own the end-to-end business planning, budgeting, and forecasting cycles for both markets, including long-term strategic planning, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and market priorities.
  
  

• Oversee accounting, statutory reporting, and controlling
  Ensure accurate, compliant, and timely accounting, statutory reporting, tax, and controlling activities across both markets, with full ownership of financial governance and alignment to business unit objectives.
  
  

• Partner cross-functionally to enable sustainable decisions
  Collaborate closely with Operations, Sales, Marketing, P&C, and Supply Chain to ensure business strategies, investments, and initiatives are financially sound, sustainable, and value accretive.
  
  

• Manage financial risk and controls
  Identify and assess financial risks, support the development of mitigation strategies, and ensure strong internal controls and adherence to financial policies, promoting transparency and accountability.
  
  

• Develop teams and support finance transformation
  Lead, mentor, and develop finance teams, support financial capability-building across the business, and actively contribute to the Finance Operating Model and ongoing data, systems, and technology transformation.

Skills and Experience Required

• Demonstrated experience in finance leadership roles, including business partnering, performance management, and people leadership within complex or matrixed environments.

• Experience working within the FMCG sector in a large, international organisation.

• Fluent English, with the ability to communicate clearly in reporting, presentations, and stakeholder discussions.

• Proven ability to translate financial data into clear, meaningful insights, supporting informed decision-making.

• Effective collaboration and influencing skills, enabling productive partnerships across functions and beyond finance.

• Consistent focus on quality and accuracy, delivering reliable, well-structured financial outputs.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

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