Finance Analyst
Job Summary
- Build financial reports that communicate consolidated and practice-level performance and analyse underlying trends across the regions.
- Prepare presentations in support of board and shareholder meetings monthly/quarterly senior leadership meetings and various strategic committees of the company
- Prepare and present variance analysis that compares historical performance and forecasted budget with actual results
- Assist with month-end close processes liaising with accounting to assemble accurate financials for management reporting
- Partner with Business Intelligence team to create customized financial reports on dashboard systems to monitor business activities develop operational benchmarks and automate manual processes
- Evaluate and forecast the financial viability and financial impact of expansion opportunities and new initiatives.
- Partner with Information Technology professionals to enable implementation of reporting systems and processes across Finance
- Act as a finance business partner and subject matter expert across the business
- Support the Commercial Team to ensure that their strategies lead to Net Sales Revenue and GP growth through the business planning and forecasting processes.
- Provide analytical support in evaluation of all Commercial initiatives in terms of product launches pricing promotional activities and direct marketing expenditure.
- Support to drive initiatives in order improve Gross Profit (Pricing Promo optimization Mix optimization Product profitability).
- Prepare in-depth & insightful financial analysis and decision support to the sales and category team including identification of opportunities and risks with commentaries/analytics.
- Evaluation and Monitoring of Trade Discount Incentive proposals/programs to drive promotional effectiveness/profitability.
- Provision of robust analysis and insight into pack profitability and portfolio management and preparation of value chain analysis for existing and potential products.
- 3yrs experience in financial planning and analysis department.
- Familiarity with Excel with Good command of spreadsheets and Excel Functions Formulas Pivot Tables
- Good understanding of systems and core accounting concepts.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Minimum of Bachelors in Finance Accounting or related fields.
- Membership ofChartered Accountant(ICAN or a similar professional body) is an
- added advantage
- Data Analysis
- Experience working with sizeable ERPs like Dynamics NAV SAP.
- Continuous learning mindset
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Just like Nigeria, the entity SevenUp Bottling Company was conceived in 1959 by a great visionary named Mohammed El-Khalil and began operations as a soft drink bottling company. As a company, we have since achieved great success in the soft drink and bottling industries since beginnin ... View more