Sales and Marketing Finance Manager

Other key areas of the role include preparation of the Annual Plan and monthly forecast, and preparation of the financial rates used in the forecast. You will ensure full financial decision support for all innovation projects and go to market activities, including launches, promotions, range monitoring and pricing.

Essential:

• Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A): Identify key business drivers for customers and explaining financial performance to senior management. Develop and manage the commercial finance elements of the annual budget, periodic forecasts, and long-term strategic plans for the business.
• Commercial Decision Support: Analyze sales performance to provide actionable insights to the business, specifically help in customer forecast preparation during Integrated Business Planning and yearly Annual Contract cycle. Support strategic business decisions with detailed financial models (e.g. trade spend, margin analysis) and business case development.
• Business Partnering: Act as a trusted finance business partner to senior commercial (sales) leaders and other stakeholders, providing high quality financial and strategical guidance
• Profitability Analysis: Execute regular product and customer profitability analysis to support pricing decisions, promotional spend, and cost management.
• Process Improvement: Lead projects to improve efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and embrace a mindset of continuous improvement.
• Ensure that Reporting and Financial processes are audit- and SOX compliant