Assistant Manager/Manager - Financial Planning & Analysis - FMCG

WE are looking for a FP&A Budget & Forecasting, whose objective is to support Management from an operational, analytical and tactical standpoint, by handling stakeholder requests, solving team's questions, auditing and controlling different activities from colleagues on the operations floor, along with running reports, maintaining files and leading continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities :

- Work closely with various stakeholders to understand business transactions

- Ensure appropriate accounting & Reporting of expenses

- Financial Planning and Analysis

- Prepares monthly summary of actuals posted in SAP

- Prepares variance analysis on monthly actuals results versus forecasts

- Identifies relevant transactions and takes these into account for management reporting and forecasting

- Clarifies with other cross-functional teams in Finance (Business Process Teams, Legal Entity Controllers, and others) any material transaction or book adjustments made on Budgeting and Forecasting

- Obtains and discusses budget assumptions with Business Unit (Finance, Comp/Ben and function units)

- Prepares and facilitates the Strategic & Annual budgeting and monthly forecast process

- Prepares YTG forecast based on latest Marketing plan and business assumptions

- Ensures adherence to the Approval matrix as set forth by company policies and guidelines and/or other regulations or legislation

- Perform Reporting and prepare dashboards on performance

- Supports and facilitates discussion of Strategic & Annual budget and monthly rolling estimates

- Explain Marketing & Operating Expense variances versus prior year, budget plan and prior forecast

- Evaluates and communicates impact of changes in assumption(s) to BU Finance

- Provides risk and opportunity analysis for the current forecast

- Prepares and publishes Expense reports to relevant parties

- Identifying causes of significant or unusual business trends and variances by conducting research (e.g., run reports, run queries) via client interviews, data verification, and/or transaction level research, etc.;

- Developing action plans to resolve variances during the rolling estimate process by working collaboratively with a cross-functional team

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum qualifications :

- Experience in Financial Planning & Analysis with some knowledge of Marketing Expense Management, Budgeting and Forecasting, and operating expense planning

- Excellent written & verbal communication skills

- High proficiency in MS Office preferably with extensive database modelling experience and advanced working knowledge of MS Excel

- Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small: showing concern for all aspects of the job, accurately checking processes and tasks.

- Determining Financial Impact: Understanding the financial consequences of decisions

- Good Knowledge of FP&A concepts like Variance Analysis

- Good accounting concepts

Preferred qualifications :

- English Intermediate

- Prior experience in FMCG industry preferred