Commercial Finance Analyst - London, United Kingdom - Consumer Additions Ltd

Consumer Additions Ltd

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

About the role:

Consumer Additions has partnered with an Exciting, Global FMCG Brand in search of a Commercial Finance Analyst to join their London-based team.

You will be responsible for driving top-line income performance by providing commercial decision support to theEurope commercial teams and assisting the Head of Commercial Finance and FD in the execution of their activities.

Requirements:

Examine business results, and work with European sales teams to ensure they understand the drivers of their results, key trends, and variances.
Investigate data issues and recommend corrective actions to help salespeople make better decisions.
Drive insightful and valueadded reporting that prompts a detailed review of monthly performance with business leaders.
Assist the Head of Commercial Finance in carrying out their responsibilities.
Collaborate with sales account managers to support results delivery.
Improve sales pipeline visibility and reporting using SFDC.
Collaboration with sales, demand planners, and other teams to ensure that forecasts across systems drive the appropriate internal processes and behaviours.
Support the development of strategic plans and longerterm contracts for key customers, including regional GEAs, by developing financials and advising and challenging the commercial team on underlying assumptions.
Tenders/Quotes focused on larger, more strategic files, tenders and quotes are prepared and executed.
Assist sales and product management in setting annual volume and pricing goals ahead of the annual contracting round.
Before setting prices, ensure that the commercial organisation understands the cost drivers and headwinds, particularly NRM.
Assist the FD in establishing appropriate category targets by leveraging their inherent knowledge gained through close relationships with commercial teams.
Provide 'realtime' impact analysis on contracting results to date, ensuring issues are quickly identified, resolved, and consequences quantified, as well as weekly progress reporting.

Responsibilities:

Chartered Accountant (or similar relevant professional qualification)
Experience analysing performance and understanding the profitability drivers in a large corporation
Experience working with imperfect systems and data
Evidence of successfully partnering with senior management and nonfinance individuals
First class verbal and written communication skills
Chartered Accountant (or similar relevant professional qualification)
Excellent attention to detail
Logical with strong analytical skills