• Support the sector and Senior associates to cater for a specific region, account or Finance teams’ requirements.
• Should have strong P&L, 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 Smartview, Essbase, SAP BO 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.
• Highly organized and responsive, with ability to work to SLAs and tight deadlines
• Numerate and a lateral thinker, good at data analysis, with a strong attention to detail

Functional Responsibilities

• Understand key drivers of the P&L
• 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
• 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

Bachelors/Masters/CMA/CPA