Overview
Support Senior Associates to cater for a specific region, account or Finance teams’ requirements
Responsibilities
Functional Responsibilities
- Provide overall support for the period end results and preparation of forecast
- Create, update, prepare ongoing periodic business reports
- Working across multiple Finance functions to deliver Period forecast
- Understand key drivers of the P&L
- Work on key region/customer initiatives to drive business and region performance
- Performance analysis, including explanation of variance to plan, forecast and year ago
- Support the annual operating plan (AOP) process
- Create Channel/Customer promotional analysis to support business partners
- Maintain complex Excel models
- Develop PowerPoint presentiation to communicate business results and insights
- Manage exceptions through verbal and written interactions with Sales and Sales Finance
- Trade accrual process including quarterly merch scrubs
- Collaborate with sales and finance functions on ad-hoc projects
- Create an inclusive and collaborative environment
People Responsibilities
- Coach and on- board new members of the team in ways of working and processes
Qualifications
- 4 to 5 years of experience in finance and planning for post graduates (commerce, accounting, finance)
(3 to 5 years of finance experience for Chartered accounts preferred) - Experience in financial analysis, data integrity maintenance and systems such as SAP, Business Objects, Essbase
- Tableau knowledge
- Strong excel skills
- Able to work independently and takes initiative
- Capable of managing multiple time sensititive priorities simultaneously
- Detail-oriented; organized in approach and in document maintenance
- Ability to function well in a team environment
- Consistently shows urgency, courtesy and patience
- Exceptional communication skills. Proficiency in English language