Finance Business Partner Assoc Analyst

Overview

Support the sector and Senior associates to cater for a specific region, account or Finance teams requirements. Should have strong PL, forecasting and planning knowledge. Should be solution oriented and proactive to own the E2E process and also work on adhocs projects. Good proficiency in Excel powerpoint presentation is a must, hands on experience on SAP, Sales Force, TM1, Business intelligence tools (Power BI) would be preferred. Strong stakeholder management experience and good written and verbal communication skills. Candidate should be self driven to scale up the scope of the role by leveraging various resources and learnings.

Responsibilities

Functional Responsibilities

• Performance analysis, including explanation/commentary on variance to plan, forecast and year ago
• Create, update, prepare ongoing periodic business reports (POR deck, Flash report)
• Working across multiple Finance and sales functions to deliver periodic reports to higher management.
• Develop PowerPoint presentation to communicate business results and insights for the POR review
• Approval of Trade Events and Trade claims post verification
• Perform post audits on promotional spend to optimize events.
• Create Channel/Customer promotional analysis to support business partners
• Work on key region/customer initiatives to drive business and region performance
• Support the annual operating plan (AOP) process
• Work cross functionally to manage exceptions through verbal and written interactions with Sales and Sales Finance
• Detail-oriented; organized in approach and in document maintenance

People Responsibilities

• Support new members of the team in ways of working and processes
• Support the cross functional trainings to ensure efficient back up in the team
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Create an inclusive and collaborative environment

Qualifications

• Experience working on a PL, core financial planning experience
• 7 to 8 years of experience in finance and planning for post graduates (commerce, accounting, finance)
  (4 to 7 years of finance experience for Chartered accounts preferred)
• Experience in financial analysis, data integrity maintenance and systems such as SAP, Business Objects, Essbase
• Strong excel skills (Macro, advanced excel )
• Strong powerpoint presentation skills
• Self-starter and quick learner
• Able to work independently and takes initiative
• Capable of managing multiple time sensititive priorities simultaneously
• Ability to function well in a team environment
• Tableau/Power BI/Python knowledge preferred

Experience in FMCG preferred