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Role Description
The CoE Manager is responsible for the Budgeting, Forecasting, Analysis and Management Reporting activities for designated markets in the Europe & Middle East (EME) region. This position will work closely with the in-market finance colleagues and the CoE Sr Manager to provide finance support for the commercial business.
The Finance Center of Excellence will be responsible for the following but not limited to:
- Working with the business to develop the bottom-up budget and forecast.
- Prepare standard, ad hoc reporting and key performance indicators (KPIs) each period for the business and finance management for defined markets.
- Review financial models for solutions to manage the budgeting and forecasting process to ensure consistency.
- Provide decision support to commercial leaders in defined markets as needed.
Responsibilities:
The CoE Manager will be primarily responsible for the completion of the activities related to designated Markets in the Europe & Middle East (EME) region, which includes but is not limited to:
- Responsible for the preparation of the budget and forecast, supporting the in-market finance colleagues, and providing analysis to the business to support their strategic planning activities including analysis on revenue, pricing, profitability, investments and other relevant drivers.
- Assisting Finance Director and the CoE Sr Manager in the development of accurate and relevant drivers of quarter closing performance.
- Prepare monthly Business Review to Top Management.
- Provide insightful analysis and explanations of periodic financial results for assigned markets.
- Responsible for working closely with ZFS (financial shared services) on month-end activities and accruals.
- Responsible to perform profitability analysis including price/volume and cost analysis (including mark-up adjustment).
- Routine communication with in-market finance colleagues and COE Sr Manager relating to financial close, outstanding matters and deliverables.
- Responsible for performing ad hoc analysis, special projects and reporting to improve process efficiency and performance.
- Respond requests from other CoE colleagues and International Operations HQ Finance Team in an efficient and timely manner.
- Work collaboratively with the Finance Director, CoE Sr. Manager, ZFS Shared Services and International Operations HQ Finance Team to ensure continuity of business knowledge and execution of the responsibilities related to budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting.
Education
- Undergraduate degree in Finance, Financial Accounting, Business Administration or similar.
- CIMA, ACCA, CPA or MBA in Finance/Accounting preferred.
Experience
- Minimum of 6-8 years of experience in financial analysis related roles, preferably in a multinational company.
- Ability to prepare, conduct and lead Executive-level presentations.
- Strong commercial business partnering and decision-making support experience.
- Understanding of financial planning, accounting and internal control processes.
- Hands-on finance experience in preparing budgets, forecasts and managing financials.
- Working knowledge of Anaplan, SAP, Hyperion Financial Management and/ or Essbase is a plus.
- Experience in a consolidation/financial reporting capacity and in large scale projects are a plus.
Personal Skills
- Ability to adapt quickly and learn new tasks independently and to be able to manage change within your team and with your stakeholders.
- Excellent organization skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to work in a matrix organization, interacting with multiple stakeholders, being able to tailor communication styles to your audience.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to influence and persuade through personal credibility, integrity, and professionalism.
- Strong written and oral communication skills are critical. Good English communicative skills are a must. The individual must be able to simplify complex financial information in a way that is easily understood and deliver the information verbally or in written form.
Business Skills
- Strong business and commercial acumen that allows you to quickly understand and embrace the business model across the different regions.
- Ability to identify business issues and opportunities through financial analysis and reporting.
- Ability to understand commercial strategies and to translate them into actionable items for you.
Technical Skills
- Objective-oriented and able to work independently in a proactive manner and to work collaboratively with cross functional teams.
- Proven ability to foster culture of continuous improvement relating to processes and operational performance across the organizations to deliver higher levels of customer satisfaction.
- Able to collect, organize, analyze high volume of data from multiple sources and aggregate it to meaningful insights and to convey this message to your stakeholder.
- Analytical and solution-oriented to resolve complex issues and problems with attention to detail.
- Microsoft Office capabilities, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word are essential.
- Working knowledge of SAP, Anaplan, Hyperion Financial Management and/ or Essbase are desired.
- Experience with Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate are a plus.
Full time
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✔ Work-Life Balance – Take advantage of paid annual leave to rest and recharge.
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