Senior Finance Analyst

at  General Mills

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Great things are happening in the Europe and Australia (EUAU) region. Each day, our 2,500 plus colleagues bring their passion to our offices, manufacturing sites, R&D center, and commercial/distributor markets across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We are energized by over 150 years of bringing people together with the food they love. With beloved brands Old El Paso, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Jus-Rol, Fibre One, Latina Fresh and more, we are on a mission to become the undisputed growth leader in food for EUAU. In a world that’s ever-changing, we look to stay ahead and seek people who share our love of food and are hungry to shape the future.
Job Description:

Reporting to the Senior Brand Finance Manager, the Senior Finance Analyst is responsible for the financial management/oversight of a key business unit, delivering multi-million dollar brand sales & profit targets and shape future strategy for some of our key global platforms.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Development of short & long term brand plans and strategy across UK & IRE Markets
• Work cross functionally to develop strong innovation pipeline across multiple markets,whilst optimising profitability and margin delivery across key strategic brands.
• Modelling and tracking of Strategic Revenue Management, providing recommendations to the brand leads.
• Scrutinise in-year financial & budget management
• Exhibit essential communication skills and crucial financial insights – identifying areas to accelerate opportunities whilst mitigating risk profile
• Implement tracking, action & optimisation of budgets
• Demonstrate exceptional leadership and excellent business partnership skills for the strategy, planning & financial analysis as part of the brand team
• Use financial expertise, utilising a high level of professional judgement
• Collaborate on decisions and recommendations for the brand and channel strategies
• Manage multi-million dollar marketing budget
• Responsible for the analysis of change & insightful commentary for entire brand P&L.
• Lead business case scenarios to guide marketing investment decisions across the business
• Present innovation key insights and learnings to leadership
• Demonstrate exceptional leadership on innovation items and marketing investment for annual plan process (based on innovation pipeline)
• Business partner with local/global marketing & sales teams to develop robust, assumption led new product business models
• Responsible for tracking and reporting of all new product development performance vs budget & YOY
• Manage the preparation & delivery of monthly brand results, accurate analysis of change and provide key and actionable commentary
• Provide relevant and insightful analysis along with recommendations to the brand leadership team to improve the quality of decisions and ensure the chosen business options deliver the highest financial value at an acceptable level of risk
• In partnership with the brand leadership team, responsible for the preparation and presentation of the latest Brand Forecast to senior leadership teams.
• Pro-active use (and development) of analytical techniques and models to influence business decision making.