FP&A Analyst Commercial

Role & responsibilities

Generating

• Analyzes current and past trends in key performance indicators; monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
• Calculates price, volume, mix impact per channel/segment/customer and highlights areas for margin improvement
• Monitors brand, product, customer profitability
• Tracks NPI progress
• Supports the review of A&P and other discretionary S&D cost effectiveness
• Develops financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives (pricing, sale force effectiveness, cost to serve etc)

Planning and Budgeting

• Drives the continued development of the QRF and other planning and forecasting processes
• Consolidates inputs from the commercial teams and navigators for submission of QRF and Budget into the required platforms
• Measures forecast accuracy and highlights to the Navigators areas for improvement

Continuous improvement:

• Proactively seeks opportunities to improve and standardize data reports to gain efficiency
• Eliminates, simplifies, standardizes and automates outputs in a structured and consistent manner
• Shares best practice among the team and other regions
• Support the implementation of BI and other IT initiatives

Collaboration

• Commercial navigators in the region
• ISC FP&A in the region
• Functional controlling
• Commercial FP&A analyst from other region
• Global Reporting and Analytics team

Preferred candidate profile

• 10-12 years experience as analyst or as controller in a business environment and/or functional area
• You are ambitious and see this function as part of your development to become an all- round Finance professional in AkzoNobel.
• You are curious, eager to learn and always searching for improvement opportunities (process wise)
• You have affinity for numbers and systems, and have strong analytical skills combined with a critical, but constructive, attitude
• Experience in building automated reports and models is a must; excellent financial and analytical skills
• strong HFM, ERP and BI systems experience
• Strong analytic skills and the ability to analyze, organize, summarize and articulate complex financial information for decision making
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including ability to articulate recommendations in a concise and timely manner
• Able to prioritize and work with multiple supervisors
• Strong ‘can-do’ mentality and ‘drive’ to accomplish tasks in an environment with multiple stakeholders
• Self-starter, hands on mentality and team player
• Being able to make independent interpretation, draw conclusions and propose solutions
• Able to reduce complex and/or large volumes of data to a readable high level
• Accurate, organized and disciplined in order to achieve high quality output and to meet strict deadlines
• Experience in ‘change management’ in a finance environment is preferred