AkzoNobel - Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis - Contractual Role

Analyst - Financial Planning & Analysis GBS, Contractual

JD:

- The FP&A ISC analyst reports to the Head of Regional FP&A and works closely with the ISC Navigator, creating an impact by providing high value adding analysis to the ISC organization

- Supports the ISC Navigator in generating insights, particular in the area of manufacturing productivity, product costing, CAPEX monitoring, cost of quality, warehousing and distribution cost, inventories and slow moving inventory

- Supports the global FP&A ISC processes, like planning and budgeting that support the strategic objectives of AkzoNobel

- Supports continuous improvements and standardization initiatives

Job Responsibilities:

Long Description:

Generating insights and analyzing trends:

- Analyzes current and past trends in key performance indicators; monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance

- Analyses Manufacturing cost across sites and highlight reasons for variances and actions needed to control cost

- Analyses process order variance and highlight reasons for same in multiple plants

- Review ISC P&L of site and reason for variance

- Provide support in completing AR business case for capex

- Analyses inventory levels and alerts navigator on potential SLOB risk

- Develops financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives (such as ALPS/Continuous improvement, ISC cost of quality, footprint reduction)

Planning and Budgeting:

- Drives the continued development of the QRF and other planning and forecasting processes, in particular the COGS forecasting process

- Consolidates inputs from the ISC teams and navigators for submission of QRF and Budget into the required platforms

- Measures forecast accuracy and highlights to the Navigators areas for improvement

Continuous improvement:

- Proactively seeks opportunities to improve and standardize data reports to gain efficiency

- Eliminates, simplifies, standardizes, and automates outputs in a structured and consistent manner