Commercial Finance Junior Manager

ROLE POSITIONING AND OBJECTIVES

This role is part of GBS Finance, Record to Report department.
The role is responsible for processing and analyzing the information within the R2R function with a focus on rule-based back office activities to ensure quality and accurate completion of services and key performance indicators (KPIs), as defined in the Service Level Agreement (SLA).

                 Reports to: Planning and Reporting Manager

                 Geographic Scope: Global

WHAT YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR

• Prepare management reports, including important and impactful commentaries to discuss with business partners
• Proactively monitor and track costs and highlights any variance from plan, both actual and forecast
• Collate and analyze detailed breakdown of cost and provide input to budget holder for their review
• Prepare first level commentary, dashboards & variance analysis, including analysis of MI commitments
• Provide the business with finance reporting information (Brand profitability / TCI analyses etc.) on a timely basis
• Run & understand all cost allocations, cost accounting & queries (. adjustments, accruals, provisioning)
• Distribute standardized reporting packs to End Market BPs for discussion with Marketing
• Support the preparation and reporting of financial and commercial plans, forecasts and budgets on Revenue side
• Build a proactive and effective partner engagement at middle management level to maintain good relationships.
• Identify and actively pursue continuous improvement opportunities to increase the overall efficiency and effectiveness of processes in GBS.
• Ensure a robust control environment and 100% SoX compliance for the activities performed.

CAN THIS BE YOUR FUTURE ROLE?
 

• Did you work before with Revenue and Costs?
• Do you know what are the IFRS Standards?

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
 

• Financial Analysis
• Good understanding and knowledge of SAP, BPC, Power BI
• Commercial understanding
• Excellent understanding of pink book
• Continuous improvement approach
• Planning and prioritizing
• Process compliance and optimization
• Business partnership thinking
• Ability to work under tight deadlines