Senior Sales Finance Business Partner

Mars

79d

About The Position

The Senior Sales Finance Business Partner (BP) leverages efficient digital tools to partner with Sales and Strategic Revenue Management teams in driving profitable growth with our Pureplay eCom customers in line with a 3-year strategy. The BP works closely across the Market organization, and other key finance and non-finance stakeholders outside the Market, to steer value creation across our brand and customer portfolio. This role will be critical to help shape the eCom strategy alongside our Sales partners. The Sales BP is part of a pool of finance partners shared across brands and events to impact positively the business performance on the areas where the highest value is created, and is measuring this performance as per KPIs that are relevant to the Market’s accountability and Management P&L. The Sales BP is guided by a “North Star”: Acting as a catalyst for change by bringing the outside in and, the financial perspective, and framing the issue Being a strategic investor by providing holistic and innovative insights, displaying forward looking and long-term analyses, and anchoring an ROI mindset in the organization, and Being modern to the times by empowering uses with digital tools, working cross functions, and visualizing data & story telling in an engaging way.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in finance or related field.
• 7+ years of diversified financial management experience, including forecasting, planning and line management responsibilities.
• Experience in functional areas other than finance or relevant business experience.
• Demonstrated analytical and insights capabilities.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, intermediate Power BI.
• CPG experience is a plus.
• Experience with Supply Chain Finance is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Forecasting Market Contribution on a regular basis and supporting the Market’s management team in identifying gaps to objectives and putting in place remediation plans.
• Participating in pre and post-closing activities on a periodical basis under the leadership of the Controllership organization.
• Advising and supporting the determination of Customer plans and their follow through in partnership with the Sales and SRM teams.
• Participating in identified tasks in Trade execution, payments and settlements, Trade finance and Trade analysis.
• Supporting the Market optimization of the growth and profitability of its channel and portfolio of brands and customers through analyses and business steering.
• Acting as a key member of the Market sales step (DMR) of the Mars S&OP+ framework.
• Acting as a key advisor to the Sales team in the preparation, execution and follow-up of Customer negotiations.
• Ensuring Cost Center owners remain on track with their Budgets and empowering these budget holders to directly access digital technologies.
• Ensuring that the Market’s Annual Execution Plan (AEP) targets are effectively allocated into Pricing and Trade assumptions per Customer.

Benefits

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees