Job Description
Job title: Commercial Finance Analyst\n\nLocation: Paddington / Hybrid\n\nContract length: 6 month\n\nJob Type: Full time\n\nRandstad Sourceright, a leading provider of RPO & MSP Recruitment Services are currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Analyst on behalf of Mars.\n\nIn our ambition to gain share and creating value, this position will play a critical role in providing financial leadership and decision support for the respective customer/channel group in line with our business strategies. Along with creating insights on finance performance, the position needs to ensure achievement of NSV target and that trade fund investments stay within budget. The role is co-creating business plans, challenging/reviewing assumptions, spotting opportunities & risks and ensure sustainable value creation whilst ensuring good control over financial data, reporting, systems and controls.
This position ensures that customers and internal clients are respecting the policies and terms of sale established by the various business units and that trade fund investments are utilized as effectively as possible through the reduction of non-working spends.\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n * \n\n Finance business partner for respective customer group/channel – as such supporting the definition of customer strategy and achieving targets set within operational plan/3 yrs value creation plan\n\n * \n\n Member of the Customer/Channel Management Team and accountable with the Customer /Channel Business Director of the business for the delivery, ownership and execution of the Operating Plan. Support in the preparation of annual trade negotiations and customer business plans.\n\n * \n\n Develop strategic partnership with the Customer Business Director through spending time in the market to understand the competitive landscape, uncover opportunities for growth, further understand the customer and strengthen the relationship with the Customer team\n\n * \n\n Finance business partner for consumer promotions and NQC Market P&L costs – owning the finance element of these areas, providing financial support to ensure control and target achievement.\n\n * \n\n Partner with SRM and the local organization to support and roll out ROI models and best practices to evaluate the effectiveness of consumer promotional activities and trade investments to drive value creation. Driving portfolio and customer mix as per business strategy\n\n * \n\n Partner with Sales and Supply Chain teams to review and challenge assumptions behind respective customer group/channel forecast.
Identity key opportunities and risks to delivery of targets with recommended remedies\n\nKey Skills / Experience Required:\n\n * \n\n Business Acumen & Insight\n\n * \n\n Drive for Results\n\n * \n\n Organizational Agility\n\n * \n\n Customer Focus\n\n * \n\n Collaboration & Influencing\n\n * \n\n Optimizes Work Processes\n\n * \n\n Tech Savvy