Haleon
Website:
haleon.com
Job details:
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.
The Digital & Tech Solution Manager: Product Costing & Inventory Finance plays a critical role in ensuring Haleon's Technology Platforms enable enterprise finance and manufacturing processes to be designed, governed, and operated in a consistent, scalable, and future-fit way.
The Solution Manager is the enterprise-wide technology enabler for Product Costing and Inventory Finance processes and is responsible for functional design, delivery, service operation, and continuous improvement across all markets and functions under the direction of the End-to-End Record to Decision Solution Owner.
This role sits at the centre of Haleon's transformation journey, ensuring Product Costing and Inventory Accounting processes evolve from legacy and fragmented ways of working into integrated, standardised, and digitally enabled capabilities that unlock value, improve financial transparency, strengthen controls, and support business growth.
The Solution Manager acts as an informed decision-maker for the enterprise, enabling Business Process Owners, Process Experts, Finance Leadership, and Supply Chain stakeholders to break down functional silos and ensure technology decisions are made for the benefit of the whole organisation.
Solution Managers safeguard Haleon's Technology Principles through adoption of market-standard capabilities, reduction of custom solutions, acceleration of speed to value, and delivery of globally aligned finance operations that support sustainable growth and transformation.
Key Responsibilities: Product Costing & Inventory Finance
SAP S/4HANA and SAP ECC Functional Expertise In
- SAP Product Costing (CO-PC)
- Material Ledger
- Actual Costing
- Inventory Valuation and Accounting
- Manufacturing Finance
- Cost Object Controlling
- Work in Process (WIP)
- Variance Calculation and Settlement
- Material Master Finance Integration
- Cost Component Structures
- Universal Journal (S/4HANA)
- Financial Closing for Manufacturing Operations
Solution Delivery
- Own the global Product Costing and Inventory Finance solution, technical standards, delivery governance, operational governance, and technical documentation.
- Deliver ERP programmes and transformation initiatives aligned with global standards and business priorities through internal and external delivery partners.
- Ensure standardisation and harmonisation of Product Costing and Inventory Accounting processes across all markets.
- Lead delivery of SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA enhancements supporting manufacturing finance and inventory accounting objectives.
- Govern solution quality throughout design, build, testing, deployment, hypercare, and sustainment phases.
Solution Design
- Enable business process design and continuous improvement activities across all phases of Enterprise Transformation (Design, Build, Test, Deploy, Sustain).
- Act as a key contributor to the Design Authority for Product Costing and Inventory Finance processes and solutions.
- Develop and maintain the functional roadmap for Product Costing, Inventory Accounting, Material Ledger, and related manufacturing finance capabilities.
- Partner with Business Process Owners, Process Experts, Data Teams, and other Solution Managers to ensure integrated end-to-end process designs.
- Drive adoption of SAP standard functionality and best practices while minimising technical debt and custom developments.
- Ensure finance process designs meet control, compliance, statutory, tax, and audit requirements.
Operate Existing ERP Solutions
- Deliver ongoing BAU support and enhancement activities across SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA landscapes.
- Provide deep functional expertise to resolve critical Product Costing, Inventory Accounting, and Manufacturing Finance incidents.
- Accountable for lifecycle management activities including legal changes, financial controls, compliance requirements, upgrades, and technical debt reduction.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial close activities related to manufacturing and inventory valuation processes.
- Partner with operational support teams to ensure solution stability and service excellence.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Business Process Owners, Process Experts, Manufacturing Finance teams, Supply Chain stakeholders, and Functional Leaders to embed and sustain process improvements.
- Ensure effective integration across interconnected business processes including:
- Source to Pay (S2P)
- Plan to Produce (P2P)
- Logistics and Distribution
- Record to Report (R2R)
- Commercial Finance
- Supply Chain
- Collaborate closely with Data, Architecture, Cyber Security, Compliance, Testing, Controls, and Change Management teams.
- Support enterprise-wide adoption of standardised business processes and data governance principles.
Operations, Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Ensure availability and reliability of Product Costing and Inventory Finance capabilities through close partnership with support teams.
- Monitor process performance and identify opportunities for simplification, automation, standardisation, and digitisation.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives leveraging SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA capabilities.
- Evaluate emerging SAP innovations and industry best practices to support Haleon's long-term Digital & Technology strategy.
- Improve financial visibility, inventory accuracy, costing transparency, and manufacturing reporting capabilities.
Profile & Experience
Essential Experience
- Extensive experience in SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA Finance solutions with deep expertise in Product Costing and Inventory Accounting.
- Proven experience leading global ERP transformation, optimisation, and support initiatives.
- Strong hands-on experience in:
- SAP Product Costing (CO-PC)
- Material Ledger
- Actual Costing
- Inventory Accounting
- Manufacturing Finance
- Cost Object Controlling
- WIP and Variance Processing
- Financial Close Activities
- Demonstrated expertise in integrating Product Costing and Inventory Accounting with:
- Materials Management (MM)
- Production Planning (PP)
- Plant Maintenance (PM)
- Sales & Distribution (SD)
- Financial Accounting (FI)
- Controlling (CO)
- Strong understanding of manufacturing business processes and their financial impacts.
- Experience operating within large global organisations with complex ERP landscapes.
Secondary Experience
- Knowledge and experience across broader SAP Finance capabilities including:
- General Ledger (GL)
- Accounts Payable (AP)
- Accounts Receivable (AR)
- Asset Accounting (AA)
- Cost Centre Accounting
- Profit Centre Accounting
- Internal Orders
- Financial Reporting
- Treasury and Cash Management
- Experience working with enterprise technology functions including:
- Enterprise Architecture
- Data & Analytics
- Integration Platforms
- Testing & Quality Assurance
- IT Service Management
- Release Management
- Cyber Security
- Controls and Compliance
Leadership & Behavioural Capabilities
- Ability to align technology solutions with business strategy and transformation objectives.
- Enterprise-first mindset that prioritises end-to-end business outcomes.
- Strong leadership, influence, credibility, and presence with senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity while driving decisions and results.
- Strong collaboration skills across global teams and functions.
- Ability to challenge constructively and influence without direct authority.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and business audiences.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Highly organised and capable of managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
- Resilient, adaptable, and solutions-oriented.
Why Haleon?
Our Win as One Framework is a simple, stretching definition of our future direction. It includes our purpose, ambitions, strategic drivers, and behaviours that will enable us to Win as One. This framework guides our decision-making, strategy, and culture. The successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:
- Consumer first, always: Engage key business counterparts and operational stakeholders to deliver operational execution of Haleon strategies related to eCommerce activities, always putting the consumer first.
- Collaborate for impact: Establish and maintain relationships with critical groups to ensure customer knowledge is utilized to inform and deliver on the eCommerce roadmap, collaborating for impact.
- Unlock value, at pace: Drive business process improvement throughout the commercial and operational support teams, unlocking value at pace.
- Grow myself and others: Continuously look for opportunities to learn, build skills, and share learning, growing myself and others.
Code of Conduct as a Leader within Haleon , as a manager, you have an important responsibility to ensure that this Code is applied correctly and to promote an ethical culture.
- Be the role model that brings our Code to life, by always acting with the highest ethical standards.
- Ensure your team, especially new members, are familiar with our Code and the Ethics & Compliance contact, in your market.
- Maintain an environment of trust that allows all to Speak Up, reinforcing the guarantee of anonymity and non-retaliation.
- Listen to your team and promptly raise any compliance concerns you become aware of.
- Make any necessary corrective and preventive decisions, in a timely manner.
- Recognize those in your team who display ethical behavior; share examples of good ethical decision-making, so all understand how we expect them to act.
- Provide timely support into any company investigation of potential wrongdoing.
Job Posting End Date
2026-10-17
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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Note to candidates
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