Provide ongoing support to material forecasting process: Annual Operation Planning cycles, 5 Year Strategic Plans and Rolling Monthly Forecasts. Ensure the delivery of transparent (central cut) pricing assumptions, validate completeness and accuracy of the planning data.
Support business partnership to Central Europe, Greater Balkans. This Market has a complex category structure (juice, beverage, snacks), operating within the challenging and volatile macro environment. The analyst will support the needs of this market by providing regular updates as the right hand of the Manager. She/he will be facilitating the alignment processes between Supply Chain Finance and GP Category Purchasing leads as well as supporting Procurement reviews with CFOs.
Collect actual prices from the BUs and facilitate financial analysis of the material price variances.
Partner and facilitate the alignment processes between Supply Chain Finance and GP Category Purchasing leads (eg. Volume sourcing/Capacity discussions).
Subject matter expert when implementing new generation systems and tools.
Subject matter expert to provide insightful analytics and recommendations to Purchasing Teams to support key sourcing decisions.
Support GP Finance CFO and senior management with ad-hoc analysis requests.
Qualifications
Be a self-starter, flexible and be able to work autonomously.
Finance background in a BU, FPA or Supply Chain Finance in a multinational company, preferably FMCG (3 years).
Able to work under pressure and to meet demanding deadlines, while at the same time displaying attention to detail. Ability to manage and execute multiple concurrent tasks to meet deadlines.
Excellent skills in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint). Advanced Excel user is a must. Having a good understanding of database management and Cognos as a planning tool is a preferance.
Good commercial / strategic / analytical skills and understanding of business drivers; analysis of PL.
Interest in Economy, Macro trends and ForEx markets.
Fluent in written and spoken English
Able to communicate to internal stakeholders on a different levels (PMs, Directors, SCF and BU Planners)
Strong collaboration / ability to work in matrix environment
Strategic thinker with hands on attitude and challenging mindset
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,qualifications:
Be a self-starter, flexible and be able to work autonomously.
Finance background in a BU, FPA or Supply Chain Finance in a multinational company, preferably FMCG (3 years).
Able to work under pressure and to meet demanding deadlines, while at the same time displaying attention to detail. Ability to manage and execute multiple concurrent tasks to meet deadlines.
Excellent skills in MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint). Advanced Excel user is a must. Having a good understanding of database management and Cognos as a planning tool is a preferance.
Good commercial / strategic / analytical skills and understanding of business drivers; analysis of PL.
Interest in Economy, Macro trends and ForEx markets.
Fluent in written and spoken English
Able to communicate to internal stakeholders on a different levels (PMs, Directors, SCF and BU Planners)
Strong collaboration / ability to work in matrix environment
Strategic thinker with hands on attitude and challenging mindset
