Deputy Manager - Finance

Overview

Primarily focus on financial planning and analysis activities for Italy and partially for WE HQ, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, performance monitoring, and reporting. Support to drive strategic FP&A initiatives and deliver high-impact financial insights to stakeholders along with GRoW and HQ ICC lead.

 

Responsibilities

Accountabilities:

• Manage the robust administration and accounting of sales investments (especially promotions), including promotion review, invoice validation and deduction management.
• Support the period close process, including accruals management and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Support Business Partners & commercial teams to translate sales account initiatives into accurate sales data forecasts for promotions, new products and other initiatives, and determine the performance of historic sales promotions and record the sales uplifts accurately in the system (“actualisation”).
• Own data reporting for each account, including standard reports on a weekly and monthly basis, plus ad hoc requests.
• Ownership for some key D&A controls including monthly B/S reconciliations
• Strong collaboration with other planning analysts and wider business stakeholders embed new business processes following PGT implementation.

Qualifications

Qualifications / Requirements:

• -CIMA or ACCA (Part Qualified) preferred
• -Experience of working in an FMCG or Blue-Chip organization – 4 to 5 years
• -Advanced Excel skills, e.g. comfortable with Pivots and V-Lookups & accounting
• -Strong financial planning and forecasting skills
• -Good knowledge of financial systems
• -Assertive and independent with the ability to cope effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines
• -Quickly analyses complex problems to find actionable, pragmatic solutions
• -Consistently works against the right priorities and takes the initiative to find ways to get better results
• -Demonstrates a ‘can-do’ attitude and sense of passion, enjoyment and pride about their work