Junior Finance Analyst

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Business Partnering: Provide financial insight and foresight to support the delivery of BBU goals. Flawless management and execution of financial planning and reporting to expedite decision making.


• Perform month-end close activities and communicate financial results in a timely manner after accurate financial analysis of budgets, forecasts and actual results, including SG&A costs & headcount tracking.


• Financial Planning: contribute to achieve successful submissions by loading inputs from the Business Units into the planning tool, checking business assumptions, making consolidation costs reports, brand allocation and sales forecast.


• Support the preparation of presentations and financial analysis used for Senior Leadership reviews


• Ad hoc functions: take part in Demand supply forecasting discussions, product launch, P&R requirements and foster a culture of best practice sharing.

Essential requirements:

• University Degree in Finance, Accounting or Economy


• Solid understanding of finance and accounting principles, forecasting and budgeting process.


• Advanced Excel and Power Point skills.


• English language proficiency is a must, both verbal and written (C1)


• International experience

Desirable requirements:

• Experience as Finance or Commercial Business Partnering/ FP&A within an international Pharma or FMCG commercial organization.


• Experience with financial systems (SAP) and able to learn fast new systems.

Competencies

• Problem solving & solution orientation; Able to handle of complex tasks; Critical and quick thinking; Decision-making ability and goal-orientation


• Entrepreneurship: solution-oriented, high flexibility, willingness to develop. Able to work under pressure, prioritize and deliver high-quality results.


• Analytical capacity. Ability to navigate high volumes of data and to make connections between various data sources.


• Attention to detail while being able to maintain the helicopter view


• Very good interpersonal and communication skills. Understand and navigate successfully cross-functional dynamics. Shows empathy and has a positive impact on the audience. Convincing, able to influence various stakeholders, senior management as well as colleagues with no direct reporting line.