FP&A Analyst

Job Purpose

• The FP&A Commercial analyst reports to the Head of Regional FP&A Commercial and works closely with the Commercial Navigator, creating an impact by providing high value adding analysis to the Commercial organization
• Supports the Commercial Navigator in generating insights, particular in the area of sales and margin management, performance cell analysis, deal support and A&P effectiveness
• Supports the global FP&A commercial processes, like planning and budgeting that support the strategic objectives of AkzoNobel
• Supports continuous improvements and standardization initiatives

Key Accountabilities

Generating insights and analyzing trends

• • 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

Key Activities

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

Experience

• 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

Education

Bachelor Degree of Accounting from reputable university

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.

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