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About the Role

This high-profile leadership role is responsible for providing market insight, pricing strategy, forecasting, and financial analysis to support business performance across Paper, Recycling, and Packaging operations. The role is critical in helping the business understand pricing drivers, enabling informed decision-making and supporting profitability. You will lead pricing governance, forecasting, transfer pricing, performance analysis, and integrated business planning activities.

Responsibilities

Develop long-term pricing strategies and price ranges by analyzing information from multiple sources and understanding commodity price cycles and key drivers.
Challenge and validate market assumptions with Paper Sourcing teams before presenting to senior stakeholders.
Model pricing scenarios and understand financial impacts across the value chain with Recycling, Paper, and Packaging teams.
Explain market dynamics and pricing assumptions to senior stakeholders.
Support the Integrated Business Planning process and improve planning and execution.
Benchmark paper and fibre buying performance using external market information and share insights to support pricing improvement strategies.
Manage competitive buying savings and track performance against market indices and third-party pricing data.
Identify and monitor improvement opportunities across the division with the Paper Finance team.
Ensure accurate calculation and invoicing of transfer prices, managing stakeholder communications and pricing queries.
Ensure fiscal transfer prices comply with transfer pricing policies.
Calculate index prices and communicate them to Paper and Packaging stakeholders.
Ensure accurate reporting of margins in line with Group requirements, completing reconciliations and reporting for sales, purchases, and margins within required timelines.
Analyze the impact of price movements on sales and purchasing performance, producing management information on volumes, margins, and supplier mix.
Lead the paper and fibre pricing forecast process, taking ownership of margin forecast accuracy.
Calculate external purchase costs and identify forecast risks and opportunities.
Support the Paper Sourcing & Recycling leadership teams with long-term strategic scenario modelling and pricing strategies.
Coach and develop the finance team, building business partnering capability and ensuring appropriate financial support and insight for the business.

Requirements

University degree with a finance qualification and significant post-qualified experience.
Experience in senior finance roles with strong expertise in financial accounting, governance, and controls.
Experience working on transfer pricing is advantageous.
Proven track record in strategic finance support and evaluation of long-term opportunities and risks.
Commodity pricing analysis experience is advantageous.
Financial modelling, scenario planning, and forecasting experience.
Reporting and analytical systems knowledge.
People leadership experience.
Comfortable navigating an international, matrix environment, capable of influencing without authority.
Ability to build and maintain strong relationships and influence at all levels of the organization.

Skills

Pricing strategy
Forecasting
Financial analysis
Market insight
Pricing governance
Transfer pricing
Performance analysis
Integrated business planning
Commodity pricing
Financial modelling
Scenario planning
Reporting
Analytical systems
People leadership
Influencing

Location

London (Paddington)

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior finance roles
Head of Finance

Education Level

University degree
Finance qualification

About the Company

DS Smith, together with International Paper, is a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based products.
We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change.
We employ over 65,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation, manufacturing, design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more.
Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time.
We aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce.
Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.
Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.