Finance Business Partner - Commercial
Finance Business Partner - Commercial
The Customer Finance Manager - Zone is responsible for leading customer/zone performance, promotions and trade terms and ensuring compliance and controls are applied and embedded at all times. He/She needs to fulfill the role of a co-pilot to the Zone Managers, providing strong business partnership support and together, drive and execute Customer / Zone business strategies. He/She must bring his/her commercial and financial skills and experience into the strategy development process to ensure that the plans are relevant yet challenging.
What we ask
Academic/ Professional Qualifications
Education: preferrably Accounting Course or any relevant Finance related course
Experience
at least 5 years relevant Commercial Finance experience
Experience with working in professional and multinational company, preferably in FMCG
Working knowledge on Compliance & Controls
Behavioral Competencies
- be articulate English and Filipino
- be customer-focused
- be able to act with speed and decisiveness
- have a strong sense of ownership and accountability
- have strong sense of collaboration
- have excellent oral and written communication skills
- High attention to detail
- good influencing and business partnering Skills
What we offer
- Unique company culture of Filipino heritage and international presence.
- Competitive salary & benefits package and engagement programs that focuses on well-being.
- Diverse training and development programs to help you grow on your own professional journey.
- A friendly working environment and professional team members to help you broaden your knowledge and growth paths.
- Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world.
Vacancy description
- Lead customer / zone team performance agenda. Understands key drivers and leads action to improve financial performance at Customer level across brands, investments (both promotional and A&P-sales) and growth building blocks.
- Visibly leads value creation and brings multi-functional team together to deliver on opportunities identified and goals
- Leverages deep understanding of retailer / distributor to help secure disproportionate support from our customers (business strategy, shoppers, profitability, company growth, key leaders, innovation, supports deployment of JBP).
- Support customer/zone strategy, segmentation and profitability targets. Helps define how we will play to win and propose appropriate investment allocation.
- Drives trade spend efficiency - trade terms governance, benchmarking investment levels across customer teams, budget controls and Trade Spent ROI framework including post launch learnings with actions to improve Financial delivery. Drives ROI mindset.
- Governs delivery of Trade Spend optimisation targets.
- Leverages or launches technology and tools - Customer Scorecarding, Customer and Retailer P&Ls, Trade Promotions Management tool (Lexia) and Trade Promotion Optimisation (Tableau)
- Continuously seeks best-in-class internally and externally as benchmarks to reapply, then actively use technology to create analytics, simplify and shorten leadtimes
- Drives ROI mindset and builds capability of multi-functional team on financial acumen
- Co-own customer agreements and Trade spend accruals.
- Leverage external / market info
Team Details
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