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Job Purpose:
- The FP&A Commercial analyst reports to the Head of Regional FP&A 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 margin managament, OPEX, TWC and CAPEX monitoring.
- 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 responsibilities:
- Management Reporting & Analysis (Margin)
- Analysing current and past trends in key performance indicators, highlighting trends and determine causes of unexpected variance.
- Calculating price, volume, mix impact per channel/segment/customer and highlights areas for margin improvement.
- Maintaining standard and non-standard reports.
- Providing comments and insights on performance – along with recommendations.
- Management Reporting & Analysis (OPEX / S&D)
- Finding and explaining variances between different plans and scenarios.
- Identifying cost savings opportunities from data.
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Consolidating and validating input from the commercial teams and navigators for submission of QRF and budget into the required platforms.
- Planning and coordinating the process across your own area.
- Driving continuous development of the QRF and other planning and forecasting processes.
- 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.
Job requirements:
- Solid experience in a similar role/field.
- Bachelor degree in business management or related field.
- Advanced or Fluent English
- You are ambitious and see this function as part of your development to become an all-round Finance professional in AkzoNobel.
- 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 (preferable SAP) 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
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.
Requisition ID: 38684