Key responsibilities:

Performance Measurement / Business Strategy

• Track progress vs. KPIs (financial and non-financial)
• Prepare business cases and ROI
• Assist the team in any financial information they need while working on business cases, Strategies, etc.
• Partnering Brand Managers, supporting the development and implementation of Category strategy.
• PH creation & pricing template works
• Ad hoc analysis of data to arrive at actionable insights to support category growth

Innovative Business Partnering – Business Cases

• Working with the cross-functional team to generate scenarios and recommendations to maximize financial and strategic delivery of innovations
• Preparing business case summaries for the Category LT meeting
• Filing the business cases according to the Innovation Planning Management template and make sure to upload them to the system before each gate keeping

Budget and Budgetary Control

• Monthly review of budget vs. actual and highlighting teams on over & under spends
• Periodic update of budget to reflect change in plan and activities
• Responsible for monthly results preparation and analysis

Key Skills

• Strong analytical, influencing, business partnering and communication and interpersonal skills is key for the job
• Good working knowledge of management accounting and financial accounting principles/policies
• Business and Performance reporting, financial planning and forecasting, project costing and decision support and ad hoc evaluation
• Knowledge in PBI & good excel skills
• Methodical approach and problem-solving skill
• Strong Insights, strategy and solutions

Relevant Experience

Essential:

• Experience in core Finance in an operating company will be an added advantage
• Ability to deal with large number of contacts, across countries, and including senior management in Category.
• Business partnering experience will be preferred
• To good at Microsoft excel and power point

Desirable:

• A recognised degree in Accounting, ACCA and CIMA preferred.
• Experiences in working in World Class Business Organisation
• Able to work and communicate with diverse people