Why join our team?
Commercial Finance FP&A Team sits under the Finance ops supporting the Commercial Finance Team and wider Sales/Controlling teams across many day-to-day operations including commercial planning, planning, and forecasting. Working across the CFM team and Sales to ensure our quarterly commercial planning process runs efficiently and effectively! In addition, support completing/uploading monthly forecast ensuring the simulated data is accurately reflected in the system.
Your Key Responsibilities:
Quarterly Commercial Planning
- Responsible for updating and maintaining the commercial plan templates for all products.
- Responsible for consolidating the commercial plans so the consolidated plan, including revenue and weekly sell-out, can be presented to the business with short lead time.
- Support Sales team when they have issues/queries with the plan templates.
- Assist FP&A manager to upgrade the planning templates to reflect various requirements from Sales and other relevant teams.
Financial Forecasting/Targeting/Planning
- Conduct the upload process for forecasting the simulated forecast/target data within a very tight schedule. This will require paid overtime once a month.
- Responsible for updating and maintaining the forecast templates for all products.
- Support Yearly Management Planning process including prep work and upload.
- Collaborate closely with Commercial Finance team to support them with forecasting and planning.
Financial Management & Control
- Support FP&A manager to manage monthly reporting including financial performance and ad hoc reporting within deadlines.
- Support to produce and consolidate data from finance/operation systems.
- Be one of the team super users for NERP / systems.
Ad-hoc Support
- Support ad-hoc financial analysis to deliver insights including financial/operational results within deadlines.
What we need for this role
To be successful, you will possess the following skills and attributes:
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables and v look ups) is required.
- Experience of using ERP systems (preferably SAP) is required.
- Ability to learn and absorb new knowledge/skills quickly.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and adapt to a changing, fast paced environment with a sense of urgency.
- Ability to work in a high-pressure environment, take quick and effective decisions.
- Excellent analytical skills and ability to focus on detail.
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively and work with others.
- Ability to solve problems under pressure by navigating yourself to the most suitable solution.
What does success look like?
- Experience of working within the corporate sector
- Experience of working with different cultures.
. Experience of working with big data . Forecasting and reporting experience
The interview process
There will be a two-stage interview process.
First round will be via Teams with the hiring manager and the second round will be with the HOD.
The first round will include an Excel test.