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Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let’s build a brighter, healthier future for all.

REPORTING TO: SENIOR MANAGER, FINANCE

Are you ready to grab this fantastic opportunity to join our global company and be part of a team of purpose driven and commercial pet lovers? You might think it’s an unusual mix but at Hill’s it isn’t and we are here and excited about finding our new Nordic Finance Team colleague.
We are looking for a curious, proactive and ambitious team player for the Hill’s Nordic hub (covering Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland). We are based at the Nordic Hub head office in Copenhagen Capital Region, Denmark. This role reports to the local Head of Finance.
We are looking for someone that can adapt global strategies into local activation plans.

• Building a leading forecasting process
• Reflect the Nordic hybrid go-to-market structure in a financial model which can be used to model the impact of key strategic decisions
• Liaising with our European HQ, provide insights and explanations to support the Nordic submissions
• Together with the Customer Development and Marketing teams, build collaborative tools to collect data and business insights
• Provide financial guidance to the commercial team about the impact of strategic decisions
• Take local ownership of the corporate planning tool, test any system developments to the tool and optimise its use
• Work closely with the Commercial Finance Manager to plan net sales and customer promotional activities
• Loading and tying out all planning submissions between the various planning and reporting systems
• Optimising the Nordic cost to serve
• Working together with the head of CS&L, identify & model opportunities to minimise warehouse and distribution costs without compromising customer service e.g. MOQ’s, order patterns
• Marketing Partnering
• Driving the brand planning process including pricing, volume and margin estimates and Advertising and Promotion (A&P) spend
• Provide reporting tools and analysis to evaluate new product launches, price changes and margin development by brand, size, type etc.
• Reviewing the monthly A&P spend, ensure adequate month end provisions and provide variance analysis to budget and prior year
• Providing guidance on the correct treatment of promotional spend and ensure accounting treatment is in according the current financial guidelines
• Analysing the impact of promotional support on product range performance with ROI calculations
• On-going support towards:
• Roll out of new financial applications
• Ensuring an accurate and timely financial closing process
• Monitoring product pricing within the pricing corridors
• Other ad hoc / project work to support the commercial organisation