Finance Business Partner

Key Accountabilities:

• The Finance Business Partner is expected to provide insight and foresight that enables the Niche Product organization to consistently create value for customers and shareholders.
• The Finance business partner, through the operating system must maintain and contribute towards an effective performance management framework and have a detailed understanding of the financial numbers as well as solid business knowledge. Through this he/she must challenge and contribute to more data driven decisions.
• Responsible for supporting and engaging in business decision making for the Niche product Org, by providing value-add analysis, management reporting, deep dive analysis, performance management reporting and financial forecasts.
• Insights on Sign-up monitoring and asset allocation control, Contract Fulfilment, commercial pipelines Actively drive further standardisation and the implementation of a common reporting and analysis process across spend type, products and geographies, working closely with relevant COE leads
• Lead smaller and contribute to larger initiatives and projects related to improving performance management analysis, processes as well as projects seeking to improve financial visibility
• Be focal point for global / regional finance teams, Supporting data and narrative with Senior Leadership and Regions/Markets
• Run the quarterly forecast for reefer, understanding what assumptions and relationship to the model output are.
• Challenge input provided by the regions when it does not meet run rates or pre- agreed targets. Present and explain what the drivers of the performance of actuals are.
• Support preparation and presentation of business cases.
• Put clear data needs to BI team, have good understanding of data sets, intuitive data presentation.

Preferred candidate profile

Masters in finance (CA/ MBA-finance)

• 7+ years of experience in finance and analysis.
• Experience of financial modelling and forecasting with Business acumen
• Good communication and stakeholder influencing skills.
• Working proficiency on tools such as Microsoft Excel, MiniTab, SAP-BI/BW, Power BI