Deputy General Manager Financial Data Systems RD&A

The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey’s, Reese’s, KitKat®, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.

At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.

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The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.   How will you fit in the big picture?

The Manager FDS Data & Reporting will be responsible to partner with financial supply chain stakeholders to evaluate and define reporting requirements, to design and develop reporting solutions that leverage financial reporting platforms, and to support validation of foundational data products that can be used for finance and enterprise-wide reporting initiatives.   The Financial Data Systems (FDS) team ensures global financial data reliability, control and integrity surrounding technical, process and reporting solutions.  This group is responsible for development, deployment, and maintenance of all Hershey financial processes. Decisions and actions of this department affect the efficiency and effectiveness of transaction processing, financial analysis and reporting used across Hershey.   With Hershey’s global expansion and significant investment in financial system solutions, such as SAP S4 and Blackline, and financial reporting platforms (UDP, Datasphere, etc.), this group plays a key leadership role in defining sustainable and controlled process solutions and reporting capabilities. This position demands knowledge of Hershey’s global operations, systems and accounting requirements. A successful candidate will be able to combine new technology, data governance principals and an understanding of business reporting requirements to deliver optimized reporting solutions.  What will you do?

Evaluate Business Needs & Solution Development - The role partners closely with Supply Chain business leaders and technology teams to ensure reporting solutions align with business priorities and enterprise data governance expectations. The role will partner with stakeholders to evaluate process and reporting needs, leveraging Hershey’s growing technology solutions to develop reporting solutions that meet the business needs. Additionally, the role will partner with the business through the implementation of new or modified business processes, acquisitions, supply chain expansion, etc., within Hershey’s key strategic markets.  Evaluate reporting needs and develop reporting solutions, which may be developed within the FDS team or delivered through partnership with IS enablement teams (S/4 enablement, Data & Reporting, UDP, etc.)   Report/Model Design Development - Lead the development, execution, and governance and transformation of financial reporting within the finance and controllership teams. This role owns the creation, enhancement, and delivery of new reporting to meet the needs of controllership and Finance, reflecting the development of enhanced capabilities that leverage modern tools (BDC, SAC, Alteryx, PowerBI, CoPilot and other AI solutions). This role will evaluate and define the reporting requirements and will leverage FDS to build and enable new reporting