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 Activities
Generatinginsightsandanalyzing 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
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
- 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.
- 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
