Overview
The Global Operations Finance team is seeking a
Senior Finance Analyst to strengthen department performance through data-driven insights, analytics, and business intelligence, with a clear primary focus on Global Net Commodity Inflation (NCI) reporting. This role offers the opportunity to lead NCI reporting deliverables for a large global organization, partnering closely with Finance and Procurement stakeholders to ensure timely, accurate, and decision-ready outputs, while also driving process efficiencies and elevating reporting through clear, impactful visualizations for leadership.
The position supports the Global Procurement Finance organization and reports directly to the Senior Manager of FP&A for Global Procurement Finance. You will own and coordinate key global reporting deliverables across financial cycles (monthly forecasting, quarterly close, and Annual Operating Plan), helping scope and improve end-to-end reporting processes to streamline effort and improve consistency. In addition, you will partner with cross-functional teams to enable system solutions and automation that improve data quality, reconciliation, and reporting speed.
Alongside core reporting ownership, you will support the Global NCI Planning Lead by maintaining and refreshing NCI assumptions and scenario outputs for approximately $33Bn of spend, delivering trend analysis across sectors, business units (BUs), and categories. You will also collaborate with the Mosaic Team to enhance the NCI Simulation Tool (PRISM) within TM1 through user testing, issue resolution, and continuous improvements, while contributing to performance management reporting, cause-of-change analysis, and productivity insights to help stakeholders understand key drivers and take action.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of accurate, timely NCI reporting across monthly forecasts, AOP, and strategic planning cycles
- Provide strong technical and business support to regions, and ensuring NCI outputs reconcile with the NOPBT CoC submission each period in Cockpit.
- Deliver clear NCI driver analysis, identifying and explaining the key contributors to period-over-period changes across sectors, BUs, and categories
- Prepare the monthly NCI Review deck after each forecast and AOP cycle.
- Support Global NCI Financial Planning & Analysis for next year's AOP cycle by:
- Act as a key user for the NCI Simulation Tool (PRISM) in TM1.
- Partner with sectors to ensure data quality, completeness, and accuracy.
- Coordinate and managing NCI updates in alignment with sector teams.
- Test new functionality of the tool and recommend improvements based on business needs and user feedback.
- Support Power BI data refreshes the Global Ops NCI Central Hub.
- Support Global Productivity reporting by:
- Support data integration for periodic productivity reporting from PowerSteering and Cockpit into Power BI.
- Enable self-service analytics by publishing productivity outputs and delivering user training and documentation.
- Collaborate with sectors to ensure reporting data quality and accuracy.
- Execute ad-hoc analyses and requests
Qualifications
- 7-8 years of Corporate Finance experience preferred
- High level of proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel including, processing large volume of data and interfacing with corporate reporting systems
- Business intelligence and dashboard tool experience, such as Power BI
- Ability to collaborate with others to drive functional priorities with a diverse cross functional, global team
- Track record of identifying innovative opportunities, presenting plans and building support for improvement in processes
- Strong teamwork, communication, interpersonal, analytical/problem-solving skills, and attention to detail skills
- Strategic problem solver with the ability to see the big picture while working with ambiguity and uncertainty
- Independent self-starter with ability to prioritize and respond quickly as well as work under pressure
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
