QUALIFICATIONS & SPECIFIC TRAINING

• 2 years experience in an FMCG or commercial environment.
• Degree qualified or working towards an Accountancy qualification.

EXPERIENCE

• Working across multiple company systems with reconciliation requirements.
• Experience gained in an organisation or environment with a high degree of complexity and pace.
• A background in businesses going through rapid growth is desirable.

KNOWLEDGE

• Wide knowledge of company systems (Power BI, Adaptive, SAP)
• Commercial awareness.

SKILLS

• Excellent communication skills - both verbal and written
• Excellent Excel capabilities with experience of manipulating large volumes of data
• Ability to prioritise and adapt to workload

JOB PURPOSE:

• To support our UK & International sales team via commercial analysis, reporting and being the team systems expert; using Adaptive, SAP, Power BI and Excel to ensure the reporting is accurate and reliable.

KEY RESULT AREA / PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Providing daily, weekly and monthly reporting to inform the Business Units on performance against budget and prior years.
• Being the team systems expert, using Adaptive, SAP, Power BI and Excel to ensure the reporting is accurate and reliable.
• Utilising our existing reporting to produce the weekly and monthly rates forecast file to accurately report on actuals and ROY forecast for all business channels.
• Managing the weekly profit forecasting process using inputs from the volume forecasting system, SAP and trade spend trackers.
• Working closely with Sales Managers and Commercial Finance Managers to provide the tools to allow investment proposals to be reviewed and analysed.
• Maintaining trade spend accruals, reviewing invoices received and following up on any issues arising.
• Supporting the rest of the Commercial Finance team with all kinds of ad hoc requests for information, analyses and invoice processing.
• Utilising existing tools to leverage reporting (Adaptive, PowerBI, etc).