VMC FP&A Analyst DP EMEA

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Date: Feb 16, 2026

Location: Pune, IN

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

 

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com 

 

© 2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.

Job Purpose

  1. Planning (QRF + Budget):
  • Budget Preparation: Prepare budget templates, gather inputs, and load FLM data; run validation checks and resolve data issues.
  • Rolling Forecast: Update drivers and post approved manual adjustments; ensure documentation and version control.
  • Forecast Translation: Upload and reconcile forecast data in HFM; resolve validation errors under guidance.
  • Cross-Functional Coordination: Collect inputs from Demand, Data Science, Costing, and Procurement FP&A; track submissions to closure.
  • Cost Trend Packs: Generate cost-trend reports vs PY/BUD/QRF; prepare variance tables and initial commentary.
  • VMC Bridge Build: Consolidate inputs for PVM bridge and co-ordinate with HRT; validate mappings and ensure consistency with prior versions.

 

  1. Strategic Business Support:
  • Variance Packs: Prepare MEC variance packs and waterfall charts; summarize drivers for review.
  • A06 Preparation: Populate A06 (P&L Variance) templates; compare to prior periods and fix mapping issues.
  • KPI Dashboard: Refresh KPI dashboards (VMC, VMC/L); run data-quality checks and highlight outliers.
  • PVM Observations: Draft observations from PVM results for VMC Story-telling.
  • IBP Support: Compile IBP materials, update slides, record minutes and action owners
  • Inventory Revaluation: Calculate RMPI-based forecast impact; maintain workings and assumptions repository.

 

  1. Data & Process Integrity (System hygiene, process hygiene):
  • Data Hygiene Monitoring: Run exception/integrity reports; flag anomalies (e.g., not-in-use materials) to owners.
  • RCA Support: Provide data extracts and trend summaries for RCAs; track action status.
  • Gap Ticketing: Raise system/process gap tickets and follow up to resolution.

 

Key Accountabilities

 

  1. Process Improvements:
  • Product Cost Checks: Validate BOM/routing and cost splits; flag anomalies to costing.
  • CI & Automation: Build macros/Power Query/Power BI measures; document steps and handover notes.
  • System Reconciliations: Execute reconciliation scripts across HFM/CFIN/Crystal/SAP; log and categorize issues.
  • Digital Tool Usage: Adopt approved AI/digital tools; provide structured feedback.
  • Data Standards: Apply naming conventions and data definitions consistently.

 

  1. Project Support:
  • Project Documentation: Maintain project trackers, timelines, and RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependency) logs for assigned initiatives.
  • Data Provisioning: Extract, cleanse, and provision datasets for project charters and ad hoc analyses.

 

  1. Training & Development:
  • Peer Support: Support training of junior team members; create how-to guides and walkthroughs.
  • Knowledge Sessions: Coordinate logistics for training sessions and capture FAQs for reuse.
  • Self-Help Repository: Maintain a central repository of tools, templates, and SOP links.

 

Key Activities

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  1. Control & Compliance:
  • PLENT Checks: Run PLENT/account-coding checks; correct errors and document fixes.
  • SOP Updates: Update SOPs and work instructions to reflect system/process changes.

 

  1. Additional Responsibilities:
  • Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate with analysts/managers across BU/Region/Country/Cluster; provide timely updates.
  • Decision Authority: Execute tasks per instructions; escalate exceptions and risks to Senior Analysts.
  • Work Planning: Maintain task lists, manage SLAs, and communicate blockers early.

 

 

Experience

5 to 7 Years of Experience.

Education

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

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