Responsibilities:
- Master the complexity of our business and understand its financial implications
- Analyze, consolidate and interpret the developments in today’s business
- Model business evolution under different strategies to support management decisions and conduct ad-hoc analyses
- Support the assessing business's performance as well as other internal and external factors impacting profitability to identify volume, So M and revenue growth opportunities.
- Centralize the long-term planning process and meld the input of multiple stakeholders ensuring continuous growth of the business
- Regularly monitor company’s performance and present information of volume, SOM and financial results and trends.
- Participate in cross-functional projects
“Your day to day”
- Analyze & present strategies to increase profitability, providing support and data analytics for decision making purposes.
- Provide advice to improve performance (Volume & SOM) and support other functions by providing finance perspective to the business.
- Comply with actuals and forecast reporting requirements, including system inputs, business highlights and press release coordination and reporting.
- Business Performance analysis and advisory:
o Monitor and follow up business evolution, volume and financial trends.
o Analyze industry trends, SOM evolution, competitors’ activities, being able to structure and present data showing meaningful information for decision making process.
o Business Partnering, providing support to Commercial and Marketing teams.
o Maintain good networking and communication with different areas being able to challenge, create value and give insights on potential opportunities/projects.
o Preparation of effective management presentations and reports to provide a clear and comprehensive view of the business.
- Revenue forecasting (RF and OB) preparation and analysis reviews to ensure consistency on data reported.
- Support Business Partner leaders with ad hoc requirements & check market trends.
- Support business users on finance tools guiding them on how to use it/who to contact and follow up on timely resolution.
- Participation and execution of long-term planning process and melding the input of multiple stakeholders ensuring continuous growth of the business.
- Identify areas/process to improve and automation, eliminating inefficiencies and make them more agile. Actively guide and take ownership of proper solutions avoiding any disruption/impact on finance processes across the organization having always in mind our internal customer orientation.
- Execution and proper maintenance of Business Planning department principles & practices including SOX Controls.
Who we are looking for:
- An energetic, driven candidate with a college/university degree, preferably in Finance, Business Accounting, Administration, Economics or Industrial Engineering
- A professional with minimum 5-8 years of experience in Finance Business Planning, gathering, analyzing and presenting data structured in an efficient way.
- An intermediate English level (MUST)
- Experienced in MS Office (advanced Excel, Power Point) and SAP, Power BI is a plus.
- A proactive organized person with strong analytical, attention to details, problem solving and communications skills, able to work in dynamic scenarios.
- Autonomy and independent person and flexible to work in a collaborative environment within the team.
- Highly effective communication, influencing and collaboration. Facilitates productive discussions, challenge resolution and decision taking (MUST)