Job Description Summary
About the role:
The SFA would be responsible for driving BPA activities within the Sales/GTN BPA team. The individual will play a key role in driving financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting processes. This individual will provide critical insights to senior management to support strategic planning, budgeting, and decision-making.
Job Description
Key Requirements:
- Support Finance stakeholders with the operational conversion of the BPA strategic goals within Sales and GTN areas -Works with direct managers to support financial activities, decision making and general projects.
- Provide analysis or reporting with particular emphasis on accuracy, compliance and timeliness of data provided.
- Ensure ongoing business performance is appropriately monitored and measured, and drive early warning for re-direction of resources with Business Partners.
- Ensure integrity of data provided by commercial teams, and provide value added; provides recommendations on forecast accuracy improvement.
- Support the improvement and streamlining of existing management reporting processes and the definition and implementation of lean processes.
- Coordinate Business Partnering with other areas of the business (FRA, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain and other functions) to support on time and accurate information gathering.
- Supports and improves business case proposals and profitability tracking and the annual budgeting, rolling forecast/Latest outlook and Strategic Planning processes.
Essential Requirements:
- University level degree in Finance / Accounting / Business Administration/ Economics
- Chartered Accountant / MBA desirable
- 3+ years of financial experience in various areas (Controlling/Business Planning & Analysis)
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-national, matrix organization.
- Previous experience in Budgeting, controlling and reporting.
Desirable Requirements:
- Strong Communication, Facilitation and interpersonal skills
- Strong Customer Service experience
- Demonstrated ability to work with international colleagues
- Excellent people skills
- Excellent Stakeholder engagement skills
Skills Desired
Ability To Influence Key Stakeholders, AI Driven, Compliance And Controls, Critical Thinking, Data Cleansing / Normalization, Data Visualization, Employee Engagement, Financial And Management, Giving And Receiving Feedback, Insight Generation, Interpersonal Savvy, Managing Ambiguity, Market Understanding, Planning & Analysis, Process Optimization, Rapid Problem Solving, Reporting, Understanding Value Drivers