Finance Analyst: Sales

6 months ago


Durban, South Africa Unilever Full time

Place in organization

Reporting to: FET - Finance Manager SOP

Overall role
- Own and continuously improve the end-to-end financial forecasting process from a Finance perspective
- Represent Finance in any process improvement initiatives

Key accountabilities and deliverables
- MR and S & OP - lead the discussion at BT.
- Lead engagement on forecast submissions and provide challenges on the S&OP process. Clear identification of risks and opportunities (gap close)
- Be the finance champion for forecast bias and accuracy
- Prepare supporting analysis of forecasts and key month end deliverables
- Month end deliverables ( GMVA, Small C reporting packs, BT Reporting Suite)
- Interact with BT leads (including Finance Agile Business Partners) regarding S&OP
- Ensure proper and clear communication in place within Finance (Agile Business Partnering and Supply Chain, CDF)
- Adhoc decision support (where applicable) Provide cash up with the agreed timings within the S&OP cycle, on time and in full, both qualitative and quantitative (zero error rate).
- Support and develop S & OP analyst.
- Look at ways of streamlining the cash process within the cash up tool to drive efficiencies.
- Ensure that financial forecast submissions are completed within the agreed timelines.

Skills and Competencies
- Qualified CA or CIMA
- Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail
- Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
- Strong engagement, presentation and communication skills
- Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems that support the S&OP process (e.g. SAP, cash up tool)
- Ability to work collaboratively with other key stakeholders (business partnering)
- People management skills
- Demonstrate competency at growing people and strong teams

Core interactions
- FBPs: interact on risks and opportunities in Financial forecast on which interventions are required (Decision Support, Supply Chain, Agile)
- Business Customers: Understand needs from Business and translate into simple DS tools. Support teams on business challenges. Proactively develop new insights for BTs to drive high value decisions
- SC: Ensure full alignment on latest S&OP input and P&L implications via cash up (volumes, product cost etc)


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