Commercial Finance Senior Analyst

Job Title: Commercial Finance Senior Analyst

Location: London, UK

Summary:  

The Senior Financial Analyst is the owner of all customer and brand reporting & analyses for the EU Europe markets (France, Isreal, portugal Regionl distribtors, Netherlands) – including P&L by Country, Customer & Brand, Segment, driving discussions & aligning action points with cross functional team in line with commercial strategy and profitability benchmarks. Leads Outlook & Plan for the business unit, prepares related communication materials to senior management in corporate & is responsible for driving cross-functional team to deliver the results. Key stakeholder in the overall Trade promotional governance to optimize spending and evaluate spends. Supports Month-end process.

Summary of major duties:

Drives and supports the integrated process of Annual Plan, Business Outlook and supports the SNOP process of the Europe markets  Sets timeline, task list and deliverables for the cross functional team & delivery. Prepares analyses and financials for review before finalizing presentation slides for Europe Management team reviews .

Owns P&L by Country, Customer and P&L by Brand analyses & insights driven action points. Meets with sales and brand managers regularly to improve margins while optimizing Trade Promotions and Direct Brand investments. Mananages Risks and Opps to drive the right business decisions. Governs and monitors the overall trade promotions with the commercial teams to ensure the trade spends are optimizations and the right level of rigor into the analysis and promo analysis.

Supports portfolio including innovations and pricing decisions as well as distributor pricing structure while working closely with sales and marketing teams. Oversees portfolio profitability at the item level and contributes to growth strategy while analyzing and providing recommendations to improve efficiency of price promotions and marketing investments. Contributes to innovation process considering the consumer, retailer and distributor knowledge as well as projection of pricing and profitability of innovation items.

Maintains a healthy understanding of the distributor’s workstreams for HSY business, seeking dialogue for ways of improvement & synergies. Contributes to key financial aspects of distributor relationship such as conflict resolution, annual contract evaluation, FX rate settlement.

Works closely with Controlling team, including Asst Controlling Mgr EMEA as well as Global Business Services team members (including DBE Accounting, General Ledger Accounting, Accounts Receivable etc.) in order to drive decision and improvement points through insights & analyses.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:  

Must have excellent skill level in Excel, Good Presentation skills, Good understanding of Management Accounting. 

Must have excellent Teamwork, Collaboration and Organization skills. Must possess high quality level of Curiosity, 

Initiative Taking, Status Quo Challenging, Conflict Resolution, Sensemaking in Ambigious situations and Enterprize/Process/Systems Thinking.

Must demonstrate potential for growth and taking responsibility.

Education:

BA/BS Degree in Finance / Economics / Accounting / Business. Masters degree not required (but can be useful/favorable).

Experience:

4-5 years of experience in a related field.