Deputy Manager- FP&A

Overview

This role will support the Marketing Finance / A&M agenda for two of the European markets, covering monthly close, forecasting, annual planning, reporting, system updates, and stakeholder coordination. The role requires strong financial acumen, attention to detail, comfort with SAP / TM1 / Excel, and the ability to manage recurring deliverables within agreed timelines.

The resource will work closely with Marketing, Control, Commercialization, and business stakeholders to ensure accurate A&M reporting, timely forecast and budget updates, proper reconciliation of financial data, and smooth execution of annual planning activities.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly A&M close activities, including GL review, FIFO postings, SAP/TM1 reconciliation, curve calculations, HFM reconciliation, and close result reporting
• Prepare monthly A&M forecast updates in SAP and TM1, including budget shifts, cuts, unfreeze updates, and approved changes from Sector / Control teams
• Build forecast and close reporting outputs such as landing files, variance analysis, brand-wise splits, and stakeholder review files
• Manage budget shifts between WBS in SAP and TM1 based on Marketing requests and approvals
• Support ad-hoc Marketing Finance deliverables including budget overviews, innovation dashboard inputs, and cross-charge related information
• Support the annual A&M planning / AOP process, including A&M overview files, brand-wise budget splits, Blackswan templates, and final budget uploads
• Update TM1 with brand-wise, WBS-wise, GL-wise, customer-wise, and managerial A&M inputs, ensuring alignment with approved budgets
• Coordinate with Marketing and BU FP&A teams to reflect planning assumptions, contractual rates, budget allocations, and related changes accurately
• Create WBS elements in SAP and upload final WBS-wise budgets for Marketing use.
• Work with SAP, TM1, Excel, HFM, Cockpit, and related tools to extract, validate, reconcile, update, and report A&M financial data
• Partner with Marketing, Control, Commercialization, and other stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate, and business-aligned finance deliverables

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of experience in finance and planning 
• CA/CMA/MBA finance preferred
• FMCG/Manufacturing industry experience preferred
• Experience in financial analysis, data integrity maintenance and systems such as SAP, TM1/Mosaic, HFM
• Tableau knowledge
• Strong excel skills
• Able to work independently and takes initiative
• Capable of managing multiple time sensitive priorities simultaneously
• Detail-oriented; organized in approach and in document maintenance
• Ability to function well in a team environment
• Consistently shows urgency, courtesy and patience
• Exceptional communication skills. Proficiency in English language