Commercial FP&A analyst

Job Purpose

• The FP&A Commercial analyst reports to the Head of BU 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 Activities

Key Areas of responsibility (previous experienced needed)

• 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.
  • Gathering insight in review meetings with the business.
• Management Reporting & Analysis (OPEX / S&D)
  • Finding and explaining variances between different plans and scenarios.
  • Identifying cost savings opportunities from data.
  • Standard and ad hoc reporting & analysis.
• 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.
  • Presenting and communicating the result to key stakeholders.
• 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
• Collaboration
  • Commercial navigators in the region

Experience

Competencies & Behaviours

• 5+ years’ experience in a similar role/field.
• Qualification – CA or CMA
• 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