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Chicago, IL
Commercial Finance Manager
Chicago, IL
Block-Gibson
Chicago, IL
Commercial Finance Manager
  • Works with commercial team to develop ways of working to measure and monitor distributor performance
  • Working with the leadership teams to set medium-to-long term strategic direction and operating plans, and develop business strategies that create solutions
  • Improve and update company internal control managerial workflow
  • Provide regular financial analysis and provide qualitative and quantitative information to determine business units and client performance
  • Work in partnership with Head of Business Lines and Regional Heads to report and improve visibility on performance and targets
  • Provide financial planning and analysis support to senior Business Unit management and other managers as requested including
  • Lead and manage EMEA Commercial Finance Business Partner / team, including objective setting, regular feedback and development and performance reviews
Houston, TX
Asean Commercial Finance Manager
Houston, TX
Hilpert-King
Houston, TX
Asean Commercial Finance Manager
  • Provide financial advice on business strategies (e.g., revenue management, pricing, promotions, product initiatives) to optimize value creation potential
  • Provide a complete view of the value chain analysis across the system focusing on Stills business and initiatives. (60%)
  • Manage Collaborative Partnerships with BU/Region Stakeholders to assess Stills investment opportunities by partnering with BU/Region Stills team
  • Manage communication between BU Stills and Region and related finance functions
  • Provide support on BU Financial projects ie. Revenue Growth Planning, System Economic Tools, new standard volume and revenue reporting tool etc
  • Provide financial support to BU/Region in Stills negotiations regarding various initiatives across the BU
  • Review and assess Stills Pricing Analysis provided by BU Marketing and Stills team to capture stills growth opportunities
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Philadelphia, PA
Senior Commercial Finance Manager
Philadelphia, PA
Wolff, O'Connell and Herman
present
Philadelphia, PA
Senior Commercial Finance Manager
present
  • Drive Key account operating rhythm with the country key account leadership teams – order pacing, planning cycles, reporting and closing activities
  • Partner with business leader and Sales Directors to drive operating performance supporting Commercial teams during bidding and negotiations with customers
  • Assist with management reporting (regional and segment P&L’s), supporting Key Account organization with reviews, and planning sessions (SII, OP…)
  • Lead the way by being a catalyst for change, championing new initiatives and working to fix the root causes of problems
  • Supporting the provision of monthly, weekly and daily management information, including P&L, balance sheet, key metrics and revenue analysis
  • Supporting in the delivery of board and investor reporting packs
  • Lead and monitor weekly financial OPEX forecast, annual budgeting, and also manage quota setting process
Education Education
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
California State University, Fullerton
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
Skills Skills
  • Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders across different disciplines and build strong relationships quickly
  • Good knowledge of financial systems, financial reporting, internal controls and strong MS Office skills including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
  • Strong team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong knowledge of financial modelling and forecasting, scenario building and modelling tools and techniques
  • Analytics experience – Ability to build complex financial models; Ability to draw insights and actions from data
  • Ability to manage up and separate important observations from the detail
  • An enquiring & analytical mind capable of seeing the big picture while also demonstrating attention to detail
  • High attention to detail with a strong due diligence mindset
  • Strong line management capability to challenge, inspire and support others
  • Excellent analytical ability and Excel spread sheet skills
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Financial planning and performance
  • Deliver margin modeling and advice to support account strategy plans. Continually measure success
  • Advise on, model and ensure stretching and achievable targets in the annual revenue plan, ensure effective ownership across leadership
  • Advise on performance and forecast expectations against plan throughout the year, deliver insights and recommendations to achieve optimal financial performance
  • Validate quality of financial data
  • Margin optimization
  • Model and advise on where to improve margin, agree on targets for improvement, continually measure success
  • Set, socialize and promote adherence to framework to manage and maximize margin across all engagements
  • Analyze margin performance throughout the year, make recommendations for optimization
  • Provide robust margin modeling in support of largest and most complex pursuits
  • Analyze engagement margin drivers and collaborate to course correct or maximize results
  • Contract Management
  • Set and socialize framework to apply MSA/rate cards and other client procurement requirements for the best margin outcome across all engagements
  • Support largest and most complex pursuits and engagements to apply MSA/rate card and other client procurement requirements for the best margin outcome
  • MSA/Rate Card Development
  • Advise on and deliver margin modeling to support negotiation and decision making
  • Account revenue planning
  • Facilitate and develop plan and secure ownership with key stakeholders
  • Account client and engagement set up
  • Set, socialize and advise on framework to be applied across all engagements
  • Working Capital Management
  • Constantly analyze and advise on potential inventory exposure and risk which might impact margin
  • Knowledge Share and Development
  • Work with G360 finance community, share policies, expertise, ideas and successes. Bring leading practices to own accounts
  • Client centric business focused reporting
  • Leverage global leading practice and support on reporting, and on all
  • Other account and engagement processes for the benefit of own accounts
  • Analysing large quantities of data in order to form and communicate a crisp view of the global account performance landscape
  • Continuously advising the account leadership team on expected financial performance vs. plan based upon analytics such as trend analysis and modelling of forward looking scenarios
  • Providing financial modelling and advice to support pricing decisions
  • Analysis of cause and effect correlations
  • Developing financial forecast scenarios for account performance based on information such as sales pipeline, resourcing, etc
  • Assessing the drivers of financial results with constant focus on improvement and rapid course correction where necessary
  • Fluent in English – written and verbal
  • Able to work in a self-sufficient manner, operating across multiple projects and priorities
  • Understands the commercial drivers of account performance
  • Focuses on solutions that drive continuous improvement of account performance
  • Synthesizes and communicates detailed financial information in support of an effective decision making process
  • Navigates the full extent of accessible EY resources to deliver effective solutions
  • Demonstrates the ability to apply a forward thinking customer focused lens to developing business solutions
  • Utilizes sound financial practices to support operational decisions
  • Forms and communicates a clear and concise view of financial performance
  • Drives interactions that build trust and manage expectations with all stakeholders
  • Demonstrates the ability to challenge assumptions and decisions in an appropriate manner
  • Delivers cogent messages, encompassing financial analysis and recommendations
  • Teams effectively to provide seamless end to end support of key account processes
  • Demonstrates appreciation and respect of varying cultures - both corporate and geographicalWho we are
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide commercial financial support on the planning and reporting process, annual budget cycle and profit, cost centre, balance sheet and cash flow reporting, including variance analysis and commentary
  • Assist with ad hoc projects including acquisitions
  • Partner with the Finance teams to ensure correct revenue recognition for client engagements ensuring revenue recognition models are validated and margins are adjusted as necessary
  • Analyse and control operational and fixed asset costs for cost centres, analyse bid costs, sales and revenue recognition with client facing functions
  • Support bid modellers on an ad hoc basis
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • A qualified Senior Finance Manager - with 'blue chip' commercial, multi site experience e.g. £100m+ t/o co's
  • Recent success supporting board level decision makers in a multi site arena e.g. retail, hospitality, leisure
  • Demonstrable influencing and challenging skills working with 'tough operators' at senior management level
  • Proven success in delivering cost reduction/profit improvement programmes at site and corporate level
  • Proven ability in managing and developing a team of graduate level commercial support analysts
  • Demonstrable success in managing the generation of complex 'real world' business models and financial plans
  • Strong planning and organisation skills - able to prioritise well under pressure, ensuring deadlines are met
  • Hands on track record; able to plan and manage a programme of work, 'doing the detail' when the job requires
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Leading the identification, evaluation and execution of commercial business opportunities
  • Liase with deal teams and negotiate business critical contracts
  • Commercial analysis and knowledge of Treasury and Tax
  • Managing the due diligence process including dealing with external advisors and service providers
  • Working with the leadership teams to set medium-to-long term strategic direction and operating plans, and develop business strategies that create solutions
  • Supporting Business Managers in the analysis and valuation of business opportunities
  • Qualified Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst or a strong degree in a finance related discipline
  • Experienced in financial modelling and very strong numerical ability
  • Aviation or asset management experience essential
  • People management experience essential as this role will be leading a team of analysts
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Review monthly cost centre results and liaise with departmental managers to ensure accuracy
  • Support group presentations and investor reports with key analytical information
  • Control and report on key lines for cost of sales and central overheads
  • Manage the month end timetable to ensure deadlines are achieved
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Act as the finance representative on new propositions alongside Marketing/Country Heads
  • Prepare business cases to support investment decisions
  • Build models to increase knowledge within commercial finance
  • Perform ad hoc requests as required by Line Managers
  • Work alongside group finance regarding the budgets and forecasts
  • Review and evaluate proposed terms for new contract negotiations
  • Provide the business with trend analysis, insights and help to identify and coordinate the development of revenue and profit streams across the Group
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Responsibility for business unit P&L
  • Manage Customer Level Pricing and Trade Spend
  • Manage Customer Level Promotional programs – Accountable for managing against budget
  • Prepare Week/Month/Quarter/Year End Commercial Finance reports
  • Ad-hoc reporting as dictated by the business
  • Evaluates effectiveness of pricing strategies and modifies pricing structures as needed to align to divisional and corporate strategy
  • Build strong relationships with the Sales and Marketing teams to drive the successful implementation of identified optimization opportunities
  • Analyze new contract requests for alignment with pricing strategies and account growth objectives
  • Perform price change impact analysis, including GM risk and profitability assessments
  • Continually evaluate competitors and company's position relative to the marketplace
  • Customer Business Reviews – Accountable for timely and accurate reviews
  • Develop an understanding of food manufacturing and distribution costs
  • Effectively work cross functionally on new food development
  • Independently lead and drive various special projects to improve gross profit and competitive position in the marketplace, including initiatives that may be ‘owned’ by other functions
  • 5+ years of in-depth financial analysis experience
  • 1-3 years of pricing and trade management experience
  • At least 2 years of reporting experience
  • Previous pricing experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Accounting
  • Able to collaborate and work in diverse, cross-functional teams
  • Must be able to work in a fast paced environment
  • Demonstrated initiative and follow-through
  • Food and/or Retail background preferred
  • Highly skilled in Microsoft Office Suite especially access and Excel
  • Prior SAP experience preferred
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Senior Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Closely work with cross functional teams throughout the order-to-cash process to support deal closing and ensure the overall compliance process
  • Cooperate with commercial teams to customize deal structures to meet customers' specific requirements, as well as develop new business models to capture new business opportunities
  • Lead and monitor weekly financial OPEX forecast, annual budgeting, and also manage quota setting process
  • Develop subject matter expertise in different processes and subjects with a view to establishing best practices and in-depth knowledge
  • Managing withholding tax and business tax in China
  • Partner with Account Sales team to provide advices on deal structure and business models
  • Other daily financial analysis jobs and ad hoc tasks from HQ
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance or Accounting
  • Approximately 10+ years of experience of professional accounting/finance experience
  • Highly self-motivated to “make a difference”
  • Capable of deploying and articulating strategic solutions to prospective business opportunities
  • Strong knowledge of operational and financial processes and practical application of financial and strategic analysis
  • MBA and/or CPA
  • Microsoft Access skills
  • Direct supervisory experience
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Wcs Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Primary point of contact with Treasury, Capital Markets and the GE Capital bank as it relates to funding needs/options for TPS. Including existing portfolio and new business opportunities
  • Sign off on all new supplier activations that do not meeting the APR / ROI threshold
  • Work with Sales Team/RM on special pricing for large strategic suppliers… pre prospecting activities include interpreting financials, determining current borrowing costs and partnering on sales strategy
  • Handle all interaction with TAG (GECA, GEC & Fairfield), the Tax teams (DMD, Global Expansion) and Regulatory (R&R Planning, Stress Testing) as it relates to TPS
  • Finance lead on business cross functional team that assess various BD/new business opportunities for TPS product
  • Attend customer meetings with Commercial Leader
  • Daily sales monitoring & analysis, determine funding needs
  • Ad hoc margin & profitability analysis
  • Gather and agree on front end assumptions for Planning
  • Strategic new product development; other initiatives
  • Sign off on supplier activations outside APR/ROI threshold (Joint activity with Global Pricing)
  • Define special pricing for large suppliers (Joint activity with Global Pricing)
  • Work with operation team, monitor supplier/client funding
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business
  • Deliver clear, concise messages both verbally and in writing
  • Demonstrated leadership skills: confidence/assertiveness with strong influencing skills across multiple key stakeholders
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Assistant Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Minimum 3-4 years work experience with finance area
  • Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines
  • Willing to put in extra effort when necessary to get work done
  • Ability to build effective working relationships at multiple levels
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Minimum 8-10 years working experience with finance field
  • Strong business sense and analytical skills
  • High energy and motivation level
  • Able to work effectively across organizational/ functional boundaries
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Manage the System Economic Models, by continuously maintaining the financial models and working closely with bottling partners, management and other business functions. Assist with managing the Value Sharing Process and Equity Investment reporting. Ensures that RFM is supported in the area of System Economics and system profitability models
  • Periodic update of system value chain information for existing products, by SKU by channel to ensure pricing strategies are sustainable and appropriate value sharing models are implemented. Assist management with RGM initiatives
  • Supporting RFM with financial Modelling related to Long range and short range planning as well as supporting the monthly RE process. Supporting RFM with Monthly Reporting and variance Analysis
  • Preparation and review of key customers (McD, Burger King and key accounts) P&Ls for the system (KO and Bottlers) including all financial submissions (BP, RE and actuals), as well as managing the CPA process
  • Assist management in competitive financial analysis and scenario planning
  • Other commercial finance related ad hoc projects
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Support trends across all products
  • Review sales propositions
  • Produce trading budgets
  • Input financials into business cases
  • Proactively work with the wider business
  • Qualified Accountant - Ideally 2-3 years' PQE
  • Experience business partnering with non-finance functions, ideally sales
  • Ability to build strong relationships
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified or equivalent
  • Multi-site, retail or consumer experience
  • Commercial background working with Operations/Sales
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence senior managers
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Engage with the Business Owners and operational teams, to drive robust financial decision making supporting the long-term strategy of the business
  • Support the Business Owners in operational activities requiring finance input - i.e. Contract developments, Pricing, Discounting, Remuneration schemes
  • Develop and maintain Finance and Non-Finance KPIs to drive operational performance
  • Support the month end process, reviewing outputs and delivering commentaries, which provide insight into business performance
  • Manage the mid-term planning process for the business owner and drive the development of local operational plans to support the financial expectations. Ensure that the business is accountable for the plans
  • Work collaboratively with FP&A to capture the mid-term plans in the central repository and provide commentary on performance, risks and opportunities
  • Maintain rolling forecasts supported by immediate threats and opportunities. Use these to support the month end close
  • Work with the Business owners on long term threats and opportunities, providing insight to influence decision making
  • Commercial Revenues
  • Product and Technology
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills across Finance, business owners and operational teams, including the ability to quickly absorb and apply new information
  • Proactive approach to work, with an enquiring mind with strong analysis, numeracy skills and the willingness to take ownership of complex/difficult tasks
  • Effective prioritisation of workloads and initiatives which deliver results in a timely and relevant manner. Manage conflict effectively if required
  • Proven ability to present complex financial information, to various stakeholders in the organisation in a clear and easy to understand format. Confidence to challenge across organisation at all levels
  • Good knowledge of financial systems, financial reporting, internal controls and strong MS Office skills including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
  • At all times and through consultation with senior colleagues, demonstrate excellent commercial awareness, teamwork and flexibility
  • Finalist/Qualified Accountant ACCA/CIMA
  • Commercial industry experience, with an understanding of the media business desirable
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Manage value sharing protocols and monthly incidence reconciliation process and routines with the bottlers as per approved guidelines
  • Managing and analysis of system economics including scenario planning process working closely with commercial teams and bottler finance teams for short term and long term projections supporting SBP and EBP routines
  • Responsible to develop new products system value chains and margins analysis working closely with bottler and commercial teams. Provide commercial finance support on development of OBPPC initiatives
  • System DME management – ensuring timely review of system spends and work closely with marketing teams on tracking of big bets spends and KPIS
  • Minimum 5-6years experience in financial analysis and business finance roles
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Act as a Business partner to provide market forecast and sales forecast using both top-down and bottom-up analysis, especially pay special attention to product mix margin analysis
  • Develop and maintain regularly reporting packages, including monthly/quarterly forecast plans, and customer/order information, etc
  • Consider market business cycles to normalize forecasts in respective region, as a key stakeholder to lead through management discussion with regional VPs
  • Create forecasting tools to help better monitor actual business status, in order to drive performance to commitments
  • Maintain accuracy of production demand forecast updates executed by regional forecasting teams based in China, Korea and Japan
  • Support and coordinate with Marketing on long-term strategic planning
  • Support long-term net revenue forecast modeling, analyze and report sensitivity
  • Drive cross function players to complete required analysis and execution within time
  • Other M&A related analysis and tasks based on management team's requirements
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Performance management, measuring variance to plan / kpi-targets & driving corrective actions
  • Validate accuracy, consistency and relevance of PM information, i.e. Sales, cost of sales, GM, cost wedge and business pipeline In SFDC
  • PM covering the analysis of actuals and the financial accuracy & integrity of forecasts, budgets and strategic planning
  • Develop pricing strategies, review of strategic quotes
  • Accountable for the implementation of mass price increases. Drive & support commercial negotiation process through the negotiation planner template
  • Tracking business wins & losses
  • Monitoring, tracking & driving cost reduction for the business (linking with the functional leads)
  • Investment support (capex / M&A) where required
  • Enabling commercial & business leadership to drive execution (business partner)
  • Responsible for MDM integrity of all commercial reporting (SAP, Olap & SFDC), central liaison into EMEA MDM team
  • Ensure that all relevant risk components are assessed, mitigated and communicated to BU management and risk management commercial control
  • Cash management (debtors overdues/terms)
  • 1) 4 - 5 years PQE - ACCA or CIMA preferable
  • 2) Experience within a commercial environment and with an appropriate third level qualification
  • 3) Knowledge of Hyperion and Hyperion preferable
  • 5) Advanced Excel skills
  • 9) Ability to effectively communicate and build relationships - e.g. R & D, Sales Team, and Purchasing
  • 1) Commercial and business acumen on review of the margins within the business and recommendations of enhancement or maintenance of existing process
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Building and maintaining a relationship with the Sales and Marketing team, acting in a business partnering capacity in order to provide commercial support
  • Reporting on the performance of Brands, Categories, Customers, and Promotional strategies
  • Managing the budgeting process and forecasting processes, helping the Sales team manage their business in line with the budget
  • Review and analyse trade pricing/margin and provide commercial support on areas of risk or weakness
  • Drive process improvement initiatives and seek to outline opportunities for potential efficiencies
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Senior Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Qualified accountant (CIMA or equivalent) with relevant post qualification experience in a commercial finance/ business partnering environment
  • High quality analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to quickly review and understand business models and strategies, focus on key issues, and deliver creative and insightful analysis
  • Good commercial judgement; ability to develop awareness of commercial issues and provide sound financial support and advice
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to quickly form working relationships and gain credibility with a wide selection of staff from different levels and disciplines
  • Strong influencing skills and sound judgement to achieve an appropriate balance between challenge and partnership
  • Confidence to initiate, drive and deliver change and improve engagement of stakeholders with finance
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills. Experience in developing reporting and KPI content, format and style to effectively communicate a breath of information
  • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience of and ability to leverage different IT systems
  • Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to successfully balance multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines
  • A team player. Someone who is open and who is able and willing to deliver beyond his or her personal brief
  • Highly motivated individual with a desire to develop the role and the ability to challenge current practices and think innovatively. You will thrive in a developing and evolving commercial finance team looking to improve constantly
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China Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Work with managements to plan and analyze P&L performance
  • To provide finance professional advice in service business analysis and service projects analysis
  • Be responsible for financial planning, analyzing and reporting and provide financial support to daily business activities in China
  • To be in charge of annual budgeting process including planning, monitoring and controlling in accordance with the goals set for country business plan and OPEX
  • To assist management team in asset management especially on service Account Receivable and inventory area to achieve country goals on DSO and inventory turn
  • To review and control expenses to achieve country goal on service operation expenses
  • To work together with finance shared service team, support monthly closing to ensure accurate monthly reporting and planning for China business
  • Other position associated tasks as requested
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Overall responsibility for the reporting, analysis and commentary of the practice group's financial performance both in Finance SMT/Executive documents and for inclusion in practice group management meetings
  • Responsibility for practice group budgeting, planning and forecasting as well as contributing to target setting
  • Pitch support for partners covering tenders to clients including pricing, alternative fee proposals and ongoing post tender review
  • Secondment analysis - responsibility for analysing, reporting and critiquing the firm's client secondment commitments in order to ensure investments are focused in the priority areas
  • Establish and grow key stakeholder relationships with the senior leaders across the practice group. Being able to understand and know the numbers in detail yet discuss them with Partners in a commercial and insightful manner is an invaluable skill, whilst simultaneously building a rapport
  • Represent Finance at practice group meetings discussing all aspects of financial performance, proactively challenging issues, driving through change and gaining commercial insight
  • Lock Up (working capital management) - drive the resolution of WIP and debt issues in Company Commercial clients through a close working relationship with the revenue and credit controllers in Finance thus driving down lock up days
  • Day to day management of a Commercial Analyst to support you and the team in achieving the objectives of the role. Developing this resource effectively and play a key part in training him to ensure their longer term development and succession is achieved
  • Proactively seek out project work that either crosses Practice Groups or plays a key role in assisting the commercial and firm wide teams
  • Ability to influence key business strategies and initiatives. Can take a strategic view of the business and impact on Finance to improve and deliver a proactive service
  • Commercial finance background, able to demonstrate the creation of a results driven environment
  • Strong verbal, written and presentation skills with an ability to write insightful financial and commercial commentaries based upon sound financial analysis
  • Strong knowledge of management information systems (including Excel) and making best use of these for reporting purposes
  • Build credibility and confidence of senior business leaders so they view Finance as a key business partner
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Revenue Growth Management
  • Understand and manage Value Chain
  • Leverage Resources
  • Strong business communication skills ( PPT , Presentation)
  • Influencing skills
  • At least 8-10 years’ experience, preferably worked/ exposed to commercial finance in FMCG or Bottling operations
  • Experienced in full spectrum of financial skills competences and capabilities
  • Proven ability to effectively & efficiently lead a diverse project teams towards outcome
  • Ability to work productively and add value across different stakeholders, company division, regions, bottler Group and Central
  • Ability to translate thought leadership into tangible action/ results
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Setup of Finance & Controlling function
  • Preparing annual budget process
  • Familiar with relevant national tax policy and able to provide or optimize the tax proposal, including skilled handling tax and contract related issues
  • Be familiar with the audit process and to correct the consolidated financial statements
  • Be familiar with the financial statement between China and Headquarter(Including Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly Financial Statements and consolidated them)
  • Improve and update company internal control managerial workflow
  • Reporting to China Management Team
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Commercial Finance Manager CZ / SK Resume Examples & Samples

  • Drive the preparation of reports to assist the local Operations and Marketing teams to understand and monitor business performance leading or assisting in the presentation and explanation of results as required
  • Give support to the local Operations and Marketing teams in preparation of financial projections to support Annual Business Planning and Long Range Plans processes
  • Design and prepare the relevant value chain analysis to support brand extensions or new product launches
  • Work with local Operations, Marketing and Bottler teams to assess financial implications of existing and new Occasion-Brand-Price-Pack-Channel strategies while supporting development and execution of Reliability Growth Management process
  • Assist the local Operations and Marketing teams in the interpretation and practical application of The Coca-Cola Company financial policies and procedures
  • Assist the Marketing teams in driving improvements across brand portfolio and resource allocation management decisions
  • Organize and model work around economics of competitive landscape including financial projections of selected competitors and industry profit pools
  • 8-10 years of relevant working experience, in particular in the area of commercial finance, working with Bottler operations and working with non-finance colleagues
  • In depth understanding and knowledge of The Coca-Cola Company franchise operating model, systems and business processes
  • Strong persuasion and negotiation skills
  • Ability to influence key stakeholders at a Board level
  • Advanced excel fluency
  • Capable of articulating complex problems in a simple manner
  • Stewards Financial Resources
  • Builds Collaborative Business Partnerships
  • Drives Process Improvement
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Manage financial planning and analysis activities
  • Forecast and plan, volume, revenue, spending and profitability
  • Prepare company financial statements, analyzing financial performance
  • Prepare reviews of the business for monthly and quarterly discussion with senior management - Finance & Administration Director & Regional Directors/ Director of Business Units
  • Variance reporting and explanation for Volume, Revenue, Marketing, Channel/Price/Mix and Margins
  • Deep understanding and analysis of the in-market commercial drivers, value chain and price management
  • Analyses markets and brands to identify opportunities. Creates medium and long term plans supporting business goals
  • Works with commercial team to develop ways of working to measure and monitor distributor performance
  • Works with commercial team to develop market insight and knowledge, driving improvements in the reporting and understanding of the business
  • Manage complex analysis projects; evaluate findings, prepare reports and make recommendations to senior management about the financial implications of proposed investments
  • Develop a team of financial professionals to ensure financial planning and analysis projects are conducted credibly and that recommendations are accurate and timely
  • Recommend ways to reduce costs and increase profits
  • Bachelor's degree, ACCA/CIMA qualified
  • Master's Degree in Business (desirable)
  • 5-8 years' management accounting experience
  • Commercially focused and experience in managing an international business
  • Knowledge of SAP preferred
  • Advanced skills in Excel and Powerpoint
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide analysis of the monthly management accounts, including consolidation of reports, forecast, budget and year end results
  • Management of the month end process including variance analysis
  • Balance sheet reconciliations
  • Managing forecast and budget of the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow for corporate costs
  • Business partnering with the Head of Finance, Division Stakeholders and Brand Managers
  • Provide analysis and assist with strategic planning and decision making
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Senior Commercial Finance Manager Poland & Baltics Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide Finance leadership to the POL & BAL businesses so as to deliver the following
  • Develop close working relationships with all other members of the CSE Finance Leadership team plus all members of CSE BU and CCH as and when required
  • Local leadership role in M&A and Tax projects working in concert with CorporateAd-Hoc projects as and when they arise
  • The person will form an integral part of the POL & BAL Region team as well as finance team so will have dual responsibilities and will be expected to help drive profitable volume growth in the years to come
  • Given the myriad agreements, structures, and mixture of success so far, this role will require a seasoned commercial finance person with strong analytical skills, proven negotiating competencies and agility in action and focus
  • Proven commercial finance experience
  • Must have managed the financial delivery of key marketing projects by having partnered with the marketing teams
  • Must have led and developed a team and/or have a proven track
  • Strong persuasion and influencing skills – this should be cross function and to Senior leadership team level
  • Good oral and written presentation skills
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Interest in brands and marketing
  • Ability to make decisions and act autonomously
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Leads the business unit to achieve agreed strategic and financial targets
  • Develop & maintaining strong commercial controls within the Sales teams
  • Degree Educated
  • Qualified CIMA/ACA/ACCA with Minimum of 4 years PQE - 1st time passess preferred
  • Relevant FMCG Experience - essential
  • Proven track record in financial analysis & interpretation skills - essential
  • Planning & Budgeting experience - essential
  • Knowledge of trade terms and discount/pricing structures - desirable
  • Strong awareness of financial controls - essential
  • Excellent systems grasp and knowledge
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Produce budgets and forecasts using key trends and variances, recommending any corrective actions identified
  • Provide data analyses and be involved in the financial year-end process, to include assistance and preparation of information
  • Ensure the timely and accurate production of the monthly branch reporting packs and league tables
  • Establish / report on KPIs and generally monitor sales and margin performance of branches. Identify, highlight, analyse and seek explanation on specific performance issues with local management
  • Ideally CIMA / ACCA qualified or equivalent with previous experience within a management accounts role
  • Dynamic, strong personality, open to change
  • Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints with an excellent multi-tasking ability
  • Excellent excel skills. Previous experience of SQL and Microsoft Dynamics beneficial
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • ACA / ACCA Qualified with 1 to 3 years post qualified experience preferred
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to build strong working relationships
  • Good organisational skills, balancing demands and working to tight deadlines, therefore having the ability to manage time
  • Experience in SAP is an advantage
  • Liaising with area offices and contract managers and generally provide a service to our operational teams
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Commercial Finance Manager, ANZ Resume Examples & Samples

  • Partner with the ANZ General Manager and management team to identify and analyze growth opportunities in the market
  • Responsible for the quarterly/annual operational budgeting and forecasting process for ANZ, including business/financial modeling, resource allocation, head count planning, variance analysis, monthly financial analysis and performance reviews
  • Financial structuring of projects and initiatives (CAPEX, OPEX, Revenue, Head Count, profitability analysis, etc.)
  • Review pricing for strategic and custom sales engagements with APAC customers and prospects
  • Providing direct financial support to the business leaders through the provision of quality management information and commercial advice
  • Supporting, developing and implementing business and operational strategies to drive profitability and efficiencies throughout the business
  • Working with FP&A to run scenarios affecting the business units
  • Recruit and manage one or more Financial Analysts including setting and reviewing objectives
  • Bachelors in Business Administration/ Finance/ Economics/Engineering
  • MBA, CFA or similar would be an advantage
  • Preferred experience in: technology firms, high growth sectors, or investments
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including financial modelling; Experience with Oracle and Hyperion a plus
  • Excellent business partnering and stakeholder management skills
  • Self-starter that takes ownership of issues and drives them toward a conclusion
  • Able to succeed in a fast-paced, high-growth and fairly unstructured work environment
  • Demonstrated ability to make sound commercial decisions autonomously
  • Ability to dig into details as well as analyze data from a high level view
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal/networking skills
  • Responsible for adhering to company security policies and procedure as directed
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Preparation of and presenting to the Management Board quarterly retailer profitability analysis within the Home Entertainment division
  • Preparation of and presenting to the Management Board physical video and games budgets and forecasts by retailer
  • Represent Finance in retailer term discussions, preparing business cases and identifying the impact to the business on new terms of trade
  • Monitor Key Performance Indicators and provide appropriate reports
  • Manage the initiation of new business trading models, including consignment, with retailers and embedding associated new processes as business as usual
  • Manage the month end accounting and monthly forecasts for all retailer associated cost of business (annual retrospective discounts, promotional markdowns, marketing spend)
  • Manage the oversight of all SAP activities, including disputed items resolution
  • Ensure Commercial Finance Analysts are resolving all finance related issues with retailers and actively participating in retailer account teams
  • Encourage and drive process improvement activities (territory and enterprise wide)
  • Manage ad-hoc projects and requests as necessary
  • Directly managing a Junior Analyst and support the Senior Finance Manager by indirectly managing the other Commercial Finance Analysts
  • Graduate or graduate caliber
  • Qualified Accountant (ACA / CIMA / ACCA or international equivalent)
  • Understanding relevant industry environment – FMCG, retail customers, sales-led organisations
  • Previous SAP / other ERP experience preferred
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide financial expertise on key finance and business processes
  • Month end analysis, planning process
  • Reporting and forecasting
  • Building all models for the plans
  • Prepare detailed financial analysis and ad hoc reports to the Board
  • Qualified accountants (ideally ACA / CIMA)
  • Ideally relevant experience in an international business and have gained solid business partnering and analysis experience
  • SAP BPC experience essential
  • Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Ideally good post qualified experience (CIMA / ACA / ACCA)
  • Good experience working within a commercial finance environment, preferably within a FMCG company
  • Strong analytical, improvement-focused and problem-solving mindset
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages and styles to different situations or audiences and to influence effectively across functions and levels
  • Proactively identifies improvement opportunities, embraces change and reaches out to both finance and non-finance to drive initiatives
  • Advanced MS Excel modelling (including pivot tables, lookups, charts) and PowerPoint skills
  • Understanding of the link between FMCG suppliers, retailers and wholesalers
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Business partner with Commercial Teams to develop and build strong relationships, ensuring that you are fully involved in their financials to drive growth and profitability
  • Pre and post new product launch evaluation, providing deep insight and challenge to financials
  • Proactively highlight future performance concerns and opportunities to the Commercial & Finance Leadership teams and account teams
  • Monitor budgets and spend to ensure accurate postings. Review spend across brands to assess return on investment
  • Prepare quarterly product/customer forecasts and annual plans for product porfolios
  • Perform key tasks within the Commercial Finance team to ensure that reporting is both timely & accurate
  • Provide management with relevant financial information as requested
  • Complete ad-hoc financial analysis of UK management projects to ensure sound financials are behind the decision making process
  • Work within the team to develop new tools & systems to improve the return on investment
  • Manage and develop 1 or 2 direct reports ensuring that the function receive the right level of financial input, support and challenge
  • 2-5 year PQE ACA or CIMA with strong Academic background
  • Strong commercial awareness and previous experience of business partnering in a cross functional environment gained within FMCG or Retail
  • Confident at the challenging the status quo and both influencing and challenging decisions at a senior management level
  • A confident self-starter who uses their initiative and can work independently with little supervision
  • Entrepreneurial - help the commercial team develop new initiatives / spot and resolve problems
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Implement transparent monthly reporting across multiple business areas
  • Prepare and consolidate of monthly management accounts packs including analysis and commentary
  • Prepare and consolidate the quarterly forecasts, annual budget packs and long term financial plans including analysis and commentary
  • Ad hoc analysis as requested by the Business Services Finance Director and the Group Operations Director
  • Provide a full business facing financial partnering service to the Head Office and Shared Service Heads of Departments
  • Work closely with Heads of Departments and teams to ensure clear understanding of monthly financials, forecast and budgets
  • Plan the Business Services timetables and processes - half year / year end and forecast / budget / strategy processes
  • Ensure strong financial control framework in place, including regular balance sheet reviews, monitoring and reporting of risks and issues
  • Fully qualified accountant (ACA/CIMA/ACCA) or overseas equivalent
  • Experience within catering/hospitality is desirable and/or experience in a complex listed business
  • Previous senior stakeholder exposure
  • Strong budgeting and forecasting skills
  • Having strong analytical experience
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Build and maintain respectful relationships with the teams which allow decisions to be challenged and executed in a commercial manner
  • Work with teams to produce monthly reforecast and understand actuals variance to forecast
  • Produce robust annual budget
  • Support business with scenario planning for new initiatives
  • Carry out adhoc analysis when required
  • Manage analyst and support in their career development
  • Experience in driving initiatives in an autonomous environment
  • Excellent organisational, written and oral communication skills
  • High attention to detail with a strong due diligence mindset
  • Experience with TM1 and Microstrategy a plus
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Coordinate & manage capex budget for multiple DC’s
  • Develop robust analysis of operational costs, ensuring that cost to serve is monitored and understood across the business
  • Report and monitor initiatives to ensure that detailed cost benefit analysis is completed before project sign off & post-delivery analysis is completed
  • Weekly monitoring and reporting on all financial aspects of the Super group warehousing operations
  • Work with internal stakeholders to build strong relationships. Throughout the business develop understanding of various business areas to ensure proposals are bigger picture and incorporate impacts across the group
  • Drive improvements in third party behaviors to deliver in line with the contractual agreement
  • Undertake advanced and coherent analysis of complex data sets, bringing value and understanding to customer requirements
  • Working with peers coordinate the disposal route for old stock, including financial analysis & online auctions
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Support development of customer strategy, making sure thinking is understood and bought in to by Customer Directors. Development of target and delivering customer annual plan which reflects these and makes choices
  • Act as ambassador for customer strategy making sure key themes and choices are understood and are reflected in their plans
  • Support delivery of bottom-up rolling forecast for the business at customer level, understanding variances and root-cause analysis to raise future forecast accuracy and other sales fundamentals
  • Being the lead finance contact for a number of customer teams to manage their promotional spend and other customer investment
  • Evaluation of customer specific initiatives to drive profitable growth
  • Managing the annual Promotion and Trade Investment spend, including controlling spend to ensure that good value is achieved and analysing past performance to improve return on investment in future utilising the Promo analyst role
  • Support live customer negotiations, providing objective and pragmatic support while ensuring the outcome maximises value for the company AND Retailer in the short and long term. Working with customer sales teams to evaluate Joint Business Plans from a BirdsEye and customer perspective
  • Depending on candidate, Line management and development of initially one direct report
  • Maintain strong control environment for all customer spend ensuring SAP system is not compromised
  • Specific experience of commercial decision support/business partnering
  • Analytical, ability to understand key drivers of performance and identify trends in the data
  • Highly computer literate: Advanced Excel required
  • A commercially minded qualified accountant (CIMA/ACCA / ACA) preferably with a minimum of 2 years PQE
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Responsible for full month end process for two areas including financial analysis on future performance
  • Business partner with key stakeholders to deliver phased budget
  • Lead production and development of reports clearly to be understood by non financials
  • Financial evaluation and analysis of various projects
  • Providing support and challenging business cases including costs and benefits
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provides analytical and pricing support for customer specific products
  • Develop price recommendations based on existing protocol
  • Direct call responsibility with Supply Chain when presenting pricing to the customer
  • Provides commercial finance analytical support for new product innovation
  • Responsible for determining costs and recommended margin across products
  • Work with cross functional stakeholders to ensure their understanding of the of the financial analysis and recommended price
  • Manage the RFA process and ensuring proper coordination and research and resolve any issues identified
  • Performance Management Routines
  • Analyze actual results, preparing volume forecasts and rolling estimates, and reviewing financial transactions for accuracy and reasonableness. Research and resolve any issues identified
  • Provide input and analytical support to Annual Business Plan
  • Strategic Project Analytical Support
  • Provide ongoing ad hoc analytical support for key projects
  • Minimum Required: 8 years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry. Business experience providing financial analysis for multiple product lines
  • Preferred Level: 8 - 12 years of experience, preferably in the consumer goods/beverages industry. Customer/Sales management experience. Planning experience
  • Analytics experience – Ability to build complex financial models; Ability to draw insights and actions from data
  • Commercial Finance Expertise – Ability to perform and thoroughly understand value chain analyses for both TMD and customer, and provide financial leadership and analysis for all stages of commercialization of new products and/or services
  • Proven track record for delivering sustainable results
  • Strong change management capabilities – demonstrates innovation & creativity to create business solutions; ability to influence/gain alignment across divergent perspectives
  • Drives organizational performance, efficiency and effectiveness by translating analytics into actions and sustainable results
  • Customer Relationship Management - Strong Communication, Influencing, and Relationship Building Skills. Comfortable presenting to customer and key stakeholders, clearly communicating pricing and other relevant financial data, and influencing towards desired outcome. Associate must be able to build trusting relationship with customer and other key stakeholders, including cross-functional team members
  • Negotiation – ability to make conditional tradeoffs
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • 5-7 years of financial experience in the area of finance and accounting
  • Commercial Finance experience with client support including bottler is critical
  • Strong Excel, PowerPoint skill
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skill
  • Strong accountability and result oriented
  • Multi-tasking skill is required
  • Strong data analytical skill is required. Utilize Excel data warehouse by extracting key data and summarize with financial implications for management review
  • Good knowledge in cost accounting is required
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide commercial deal support for execution of investments, acquisitions and joint ventures (M&A valuation and scenario analysis, ROI, new strategic business reviews)
  • Excellent Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint, and Word skills
  • Breadth of financial modelling skills and fundamental understanding of valuation and investment analysis (DCFs, ROIs, NPV, etc)
  • Strong presentation skills – ability to autonomously design and story-board financial and strategic analyses
  • Strong verbal skills and ability to present to an executive audience if required
  • Ability to conduct research independently
  • Proactive with obtaining resources required for analysis
  • Solution-focused with high attention to detail
  • Strong business partnering and teamwork skills is crucial
  • Ability to think strategically about the changing TV and media landscape
  • 3+ years in M&A, corporate / business development, consulting or financial advisory strongly recommended but not required
  • TV, media and relevant industry experience is preferable
  • Willingness to work the hours as required by a high growth business
  • All applicants must be able to provide documentation to prove they are eligible to work in the United Kingdom
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Commercial Finance Manager Logistics Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide periodic analysis against budget/forecast and understand what this means for the remainder of the year, highlighting risks & opportunities and challenging the business stakeholders
  • Develop 5 Year plan, annual budget and monthly re-forecast working with logistics and group FP&A team
  • Build effective relationship with internal & external stakeholders to support & challenge the business
  • Supporting Logistics Directors to determine how to expand the warehouse network internationally to enhance customer proposition whilst optimising end to end costs
  • Develop robust business cases for new investments. Initiatives will range from large capital infrastructure to smaller P&L investments
  • The primary finance partner to the logistics directors & senior team supporting them with regular reporting, & ad hoc analysis
  • Manage & coach a team of two analysts
  • CIMA, ACCA or ACA qualified or overseas equivalent
  • 2+ years of post-qualified experience performing a commercial finance role preferably in the Retail or eCommerce industry
  • Proven experience in establishing and managing relationships with stakeholders and business partners, including non-finance functions at senior and executive level management
  • Experience supporting key business partners
  • Strong analytical and advanced financial modelling skills
  • Ability to communicate and present analysis and recommendations to business partners at various levels of management, including executive-level
  • Ability to comfortably work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
  • Advanced knowledge of Excel and Powerpoint
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Forecasting, financial planning and budgeting across departments
  • Financial analysis of investment, sales, research and development
  • Building strong relationships to ensure finance works effectively in the strategy, decision making and running of the business
  • Oversight on project accounting and treasury management
  • Oversight of month and year end accounting and production of management packs
  • Monthly review of the portfolio balance sheet and P&L
  • Providing decision support to senior managers and business teams, including the development and challenge of business cases
  • Presenting back to the business including commentary and analysis
  • Providing leadership and support to members of the team
  • Through strong data analysis you will perform evaluations, analysis and present reports that help the company remain competitive
  • Client KPI and Value Add reporting
  • Performing business and contract evaluations to identify future opportunities for improvement and barriers to achieving financial objectives
  • Responsible for an in-depth knowledge of the terms and conditions of the contract to ensure that all cost elements are appropriately billed and accounted for
  • Developing models that provide financial implications and direction in support of projects, change requests, new business and opportunities
  • Assisting the Business Development Group to analyse and recommend structure, pricing and terms/conditions for rebids, expansions and new business proposals
  • Commercial contract management
  • 3+ years' experience as a Finance Manager with commercial focus, qualified with ACA, CIMA or ACCA
  • Demonstrable experience in the Software and/or IT sector with exposure to commercial infrastructure
  • Exceptional analytical, starter/completer, strategic, execution, presentation and IT skills
  • Must have the right level of judgment, drive and influence to successfully inform the commercial business agenda and influence strategic direction
  • A track record in successful business partnering with non-finance teams and a strong relationship builder able to communicate at all levels
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and the confidence to articulate clearly and to challenge stakeholders. Also, with the conviction, energy, ambition and enthusiasm to grow, innovate and lead in the fastest of fast moving organisations
  • An individual who is not intimidated by the opportunity to leave a significant legacy in a crucial role facing directly into the most senior people in the business
  • Experience with contract management
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Commercial Finance Manager, North East Africa Resume Examples & Samples

  • Partner with business leader and staff to drive operating performance & act as champion for strategic initiatives within the organization
  • Effectively manage/lead/coordinate/develop a team of Financial Analysts and/or Finance Managers determine clear roles & responsibilities, identify and action development needs to ensure superior finance business support
  • Work with Controllership & Operational teams to adopt Healthcare SOP’s; Drive profitable growth in the region by providing analysis of results and identifying & tracking key metrics while advising the leadership team on risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions
  • Work with the Controllership and Planning & Analysis teams to define the relevant IT platform and requirements to support analysis, improve data visibility and ensure controllership
  • Lead cross-functional projects to drive simplification throughout the organization and to improve rigor in key Finance processes, reducing costs & improving profitability
  • Provide Finance leadership for NPI activities (e.g. target costing, margin analysis, etc.)
  • Leadership experience: has two years experience leading team members balancing execution through others with inclusiveness, leveraging expertise, clear thinking, imagination, and external focus
  • Experience successfully leading cross-functional projects and process improvement within the operations/finance functions; able to quickly grasp new ideas
  • Experience leading in a matrixed environment
  • Trained and/or certified in process improvement methodology such as LEAN or Six Sigma
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Services Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Partner with APAC Services Operations leader and staff to drive operational rigor, analyze service segment profitability, cost to serve and lead/support strategic initiatives to improve productivity in services business for APAC region (Japan, Korea and ANZ)
  • Lead commercial finance analytics (eg. Contract and parts pricing, capture rates, cost to sell/serve, product lifecycle analytics, operations productivity, service revenue segments profitability etc.,) & provide meaningful insights/ actionable outcomes to leadership to drive profitable growth and operational rigor
  • Collaborate with Equipment teams in APAC and regions to better connect the dots & provide actionable insights (eg. Product lifecycle costs & share correlation to Equipment sales, replacement rates, NPI performance/effectiveness)
  • Actively partner with FP&A team and provide insights for developing estimates/forecasts, operating plans, blue print reviews and operating/strategic reviews
  • Collaborate/ Lead cross-functional projects to drive simplification/ standardization and/or improve rigor in key Commercial/Operations and Finance processes for better/sustainable growth & profitability
  • Collaborate on projects related to internal controls over financial reporting for example Policy 5.0/ Policy 6.0 process & controls, Contract T&C’s standardization, contract offerings etc.,
  • Develop and improve financial processes/tools – for instance, live & dynamic reports/dashboards, scenario based outcomes, budgeting and estimating processes, project pay-backs/ROI’s
  • Leadership experience: has experience leading team members balancing execution through others with inclusiveness, leveraging expertise, clear thinking, imagination, and external focus
  • Confidence / Assertiveness: Strong influencing skills across business functions; confidence to approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend position; for example, work closely with business leaders to achieve business objectives while driving controllership/GE Values
  • Experience working in global business environment with sound understanding of global process and transactional flows. Fluency in English
  • Integrity: Accepting and adhering to high moral, ethical, and personal values in decisions, communications, actions, and when dealing with others
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Act of the finance business partner to the Head of Ops and Account Directors
  • Line management including objective setting and performance reviews
  • Consolidation of financial results and reporting of business performance
  • Provide analysis and identify areas for risk and opportunities that will drive financial performance
  • Setting the budget and forecast targets
  • Identify and implement new controls
  • Own the roll out of new commercial initiatives
  • Analyse new business opportunities and assess the profitability
  • Qualified (CIMA/ACA/ACCA) - ideally 1/2years Post Qual
  • Excellent stakeholder management and the ability to challenge and persuade senior colleagues
  • Experience in multi site large company
  • Ability to identify inefficiencies and drive change
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Commercial Finance Manager Central Resume Examples & Samples

  • Profitability reporting
  • Portfolio review & Enterprise Excellence projects
  • Customer Pricing implementation & reporting
  • Excellent English and a second language German mandatory
  • Degree in Finance or Accounting
  • Strong business acumen, customer- focused, market knowledge
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited university or college
  • Minimum of 10 years years of experience in a financial position
  • Master’s Degree in Business Administration from an accredited university or college
  • Experience of finance within the industry
  • Demonstrated ability to lead in a matrix team environment. Strong interpersonal skills with ability to influence others and drive change while working across all levels, functions, and regions
  • Solid PC skills: experience with financial systems/applications, strong Excel skills in data compilation and aggregation (i.e. pivot tables, Vlookup and macros) and strong skills in PowerPoint
  • Able to anticipate, identify, and resolve complex financial issues Demonstrated team leadership ability
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Commercial Finance Manager French Speaking SSA Resume Examples & Samples

  • Key owner and lead for all finance related activities for GE Healthcare in the French Speaking Sub Saharan Africa LCT (Local Customer Territory)
  • Ownership for developing estimates, operating plans/forecasts/reviews
  • Drive financing structuring to support sales efforts (Leasing, Bank loans, ECA financing…)
  • Driving profitable growth by providing analysis of results and reporting key metrics while advising the leadership team on risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions
  • Work cross functionally to adopt Healthcare SOP’s; Drive profitable growth in the region by providing analysis of results and identifying & tracking key metrics while advising the leadership team on risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions
  • Contribute to improving efficiencies and performance as well as providing quality financial information (e.g. report dashboard and VC/BC productivity)
  • Assist with management reporting (regional and segment P&L’s) and communicate results to managers
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance (preferably in banking), or Business Administration and minimum of six years of financial work experience or High School Diploma/GED and minimum of ten years financial work experience including banking activities and financing
  • Fluency in English & French
  • Basic understanding of financial compliance: SOX, GAAP
  • Masters’ degree in Business Administration
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Commercial Finance Manager SPS Mena Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide business partnership and finance support to the Gulf team in deal negotiations and financial risk management. Exercise delegated authority
  • Drive completion of KYC process, Rev Rec models, Letters of Credits, Bank Guarantees, Cash-Flows, FX ITO hedging models etc
  • Serve as functional owner of deal opportunities and orders/sales/CM pipeline reporting for the sub-region, by P&L and by country. Track & drive active opportunities against target and estimates
  • Drive Receivables turnover improvements: drive awareness and ownership by implementing best practices across region to reduce receivables past dues; analyze and improve payment terms and coordination with collection teams; support GE Capital and 3rd party factoring penetration
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, with at least 10 years of finance experience
  • Strong leadership, communication & presentation skills
  • Strong quantitative & analytical skills with good detail orientation
  • Self-motivated, ability to operate independently
  • Team player with ability to coach and mentor
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Commercial Finance Manager GPS Mena Resume Examples & Samples

  • Work closely with Commercial Operations team and provide cost estimation support on active bids
  • Work closely with the Regional General Manager to drive GPB, BP and OP Planning sessions and drive proactive representation of region with senior management
  • Provide country/sub-region level analytics on order trends, regional sales, backlog & convertibility; cash-flow; base costs measurements
  • Execution focused, ability to set and meet aggressive goals and objectives
  • Flexible & has ability to embrace changes, capable of managing multiple priorities
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Manage month-end close in timely and accurate fashion. Ensuring that the deadlines are met with a high level of accuracy and understanding
  • Maintain accounting models and produce insightful month-end reports
  • Monthly cost and variance analysis against budget and mid-month outlooks
  • Present month-end numbers at meetings with insightful commentary as well as being responsible for meetings continuous improvement and enhancement
  • Perform Balance Sheet reconciliations and forecasting
  • Manage various stakeholder relationships across Finance and Marketing and advise on YTD spend and other queries
  • Responsible for liaising with both consumer and business planning teams and ensuring that they have relevant inputs for forecasting and planning
  • Drive improvements in accounting processes, challenging current policies
  • Pro-active approach to streamline and improve month end reporting and models
  • Help achieve clean quarterly/annual internal and external audits
  • Finance experience within a blue chip company
  • Advanced team-working and interpersonal skills and experience with building strong relationships across the organisation at all levels
  • Strong knowledge of financial modelling and forecasting, scenario building and modelling tools and techniques
  • IT literate, working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
  • Ability to identify problems and the confidence recommend solutions without prompting
  • High impact self-starting individual, resourceful and solution-driven. Must be personable, easy to work with and flexible but also be able to act with integrity and trust
  • Experience of a tight control environment as well as dealing with internal and external auditing
  • Strong commercial instincts and experience in making commercial decisions
  • Able to prioritise multiple demands and manage expectations accordingly
  • Ability to manage up and separate important observations from the detail
  • Ability to partner with and influence other finance members
  • Ability to package up the key messages and trends for senior leadership
  • Previous experience of SAP BPC/ revenue planning / Management reporting modules
  • CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified
  • Experience of multiple stakeholder management
  • Experience of working with minimal supervision, as well as part of a team
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide Commercial Finance Support to the UK Finance and Sales team
  • Analysis and review of financials to provide insight on key drivers and underlying trends
  • Provide financial support and analysis for marketing investment cases across all products within the channel
  • Provide financial support and analysis for launches of new Propositions and offers to the market
  • Performance of post investment reviews for any propositions, offers, capex, marketing and other investments impacting the channel
  • Track and monitor performance of transformation activities working with the business to ensure we have the most effective structures in place to deliver profitable revenue growth
  • Responsible for the development and tracking of the UK capex budget, working in collaboration with the Finance team and Digital, Product and Strategy team
  • Financial support for business cases supporting transformation across ensuring the appropriate level of challenge is provided to the business
  • Produce appropriate briefings for senior / executive management
  • Ad-hoc analysis to understand business drivers and resolve issues
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Develop strong and trusted partnerships with key budget holders within Product, Supply Chain Finance and Digital and with a commercial mind-set, provide analysis, challenge and insight on commercial finance matters and strategies – pro-actively addressing areas that may not have been previously considered
  • Provide effective monthly management reports for key budget holders and Finance leadership team (significant exercise for digital)
  • Support and influence key business decisions through the pro-active creation of business cases and ‘what-if’ scenario planning, ensuring there is a consistent approach applied across functions
  • Ensure sufficient financial rigour is applied on all key investment decisions and post investment reviews are carried out, with learnings communicated and embedded in future assessments
  • Play a key role in evaluating business performance and offering advice on the future direction to achieve business targets and KPIs. Track, report and monitor performance against these targets
  • Help drive efficiencies through value adding activities by leading and delivering commercial finance analysis and identifying and managing KPIs
  • Oversee the financial planning process and ensure sufficient financial rigour has occurred in identifying efficiencies and cost savings
  • Lead and co-ordinate delivery of the month end close and financial controlling liaising closely with Horseferry Management Accounting Team
  • Maintain a balanced connection between your key budget holders and the Finance Leadership Team
  • Partner closely with Commercial Procurement
  • Manage direct / indirect reports to optimise their performance and oversee their development, both as individuals and as a team
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • ICAS / CIMA / ACCA / ACA Qualification, or Finalists considered
  • Robust management of Working Capital
  • Considerable General Ledger, Balance Sheet Management (Interrogation, Reconciliation, Journals) and Month End Reporting experience required
  • Demonstrable business partnering skills including project bid/deal shaping
  • Excellent Excel modelling skills
  • SAP General Ledger/Invoice Billing
  • External contract accounting experience desired inclusive of IFRS revenue recognition
  • A natural ability to work well under pressure and tight deadlines and to influence at all levels within the organisation
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Asean Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide a complete view of the value chain analysis across the system focusing on Stills business and initiatives. (60%)
  • Prepare and develop and structure Stills value chain business case and financial analysis, assess Stills investment, identify value creation opportunities for existing and potential Stills category, recommend programs and define actions
  • Review and assess Stills related existing commitments and business models, opportunities evaluations across the BU markets, understand implications and trade-offs and provide financial recommendations
  • Understand the impact of long-term shifts between categories (SSD vs. Stills), implications of investments and ensure contingencies in place to address threats and acceleration to capture opportunities
  • Review and assess Stills Pricing Analysis provided by BU Marketing and Stills team to capture stills growth opportunities
  • Construct portfolio view of market opportunities regarding Stills investments and category growth. Ensure all projects and initiatives are properly researched, financially
  • Provide financial advice on business strategies (e.g., revenue management, pricing, promotions, product initiatives) to optimize value creation potential
  • Manage Collaborative Partnerships with BU/Region Stakeholders to assess Stills investment opportunities by partnering with BU/Region Stills team
  • Identify and leverage Stills strategies for multi- Region investments by partnering with BU/Region
  • Provide financial support to BU/Region in Stills negotiations regarding various initiatives across the BU
  • Create routines and collaborative partnerships to identify/document best practices within BU/Region and share insights with the stakeholders on how to capture Stills growth opportunities
  • Manage communication between BU Stills and Region and related finance functions
  • Provide financial support on other BU Financial initiatives and analysis, including System Financials and KPIs (20%)
  • Business case development to support BU initiatives and innovation projects, including financial analysis for CCFS (Freestyle) in Thailand and other markets in Asean
  • Support and implement BU/Region standard financial report and process
  • Prepare/consolidate monthly and other routine financial reports and analysis including System NSR, P&L, and adhoc financial analysis and presentation
  • Partner with Commercial Leadership in driving RGM Culture in Asean including implementation of Corporate initiatives, building capabilities and tracking RGM actions across markets in Asean (20%)
  • Provide support on BU Financial projects ie. Revenue Growth Planning, System Economic Tools, new standard volume and revenue reporting tool etc
  • Prepare variance analysis to identify volume, price, mix and other key drivers of revenue and profit
  • Strong Financial Analytical skills
  • Financial knowledge and good Business Knowledge
  • Optimizing strategic relationships and networks
  • Communicating effectively
  • Knowledge of programs and modelling techniques for developing projections and estimates
  • Judgments in decision making
  • Thinking Systemically
  • Building value based relationships
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Commercial Finance Manager St James s Gate Resume Examples & Samples

  • Support the development of the annual strategic plan, working with the Dublin Brewery Leadership Team to formulate and deliver improvement initiatives
  • Responsible for the preparation of the annual operating plan for St James Gate site through partnering for growth, driving cost reduction, and reliable delivery of financial commitments, thereby creating value for Diageo
  • Monthly report preparation for input to the central team, ensuring accurate information on performance is provided in line with central reporting deadlines
  • Monthly forecast reporting of raw material, recoveries, and overheads, working with different areas of the business to ensure accurate input of risks and opportunities
  • Provision of relevant information to Brewing Commercial Finance Manager and ISC Finance as required
  • Lead the BPM review with the SJG site leadership team, providing challenge and support to ensure full delivery of AOP and the site performance scorecard
  • Preparation of ad hoc financial analyses and reports as required for the Dublin Brewery Leadership Team
  • Professionally qualified accountant with substantial experience in a financial role preferably within a manufacturing environment, including decision support
  • Proven track record in financial reporting
  • Excellent communication skills to both financial and non-financial audiences
  • Strong ability to build relationships with senior stakeholders and influence change in complex supply chain environment
  • Idea generation and energy to find solutions and drive the productivity agenda
  • Knowledge of SAP and BW would be a distinct advantage
  • High degree of commercial acumen with significant experience with the manufacturing/logistics environment
  • Ability to work as leader within major site leadership team and within wider finance community
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Business and market development
  • Provide thought leadership and execution around GE Digital’s enterprise strategies (in terms of analytical and process-leadership capabilities) to identify business growth opportunities and promote the adoption of digital products and services in target verticals
  • Measure and anticipate shifting trends in the marketplace, along with customer desires, and develop strategies to position GE Digital and the Company to capitalize on such movements
  • Partner with internal and external subject matter experts to capture external perspectives and uncover opportunities for GE Digital across all regions
  • Drive an objective and analytical process, leveraging all available data, to support strategic decision-making with GE Digital’s Commercial Leadership team
  • Apply lessons learned through deal wins and losses and share best practices with the global team
  • Confidence and proven ability to influence and work across multiple key stakeholders
  • Solid analytical and process leadership skills
  • Strategic management consulting experience
  • Strong ability to deal with ambiguity and be a self-starter
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and achieve quality results
  • Experience in software commercial strategy and execution
  • Creative and innovative problem solving skills
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Managing the annual budgeting process; ensure targets set are realistic and reasonably stretched for the business; engaging various stakeholders in budget discussion
  • Managing and prepare monthly Flash and R&O submissions – P&L/ Balance Sheet/ Cash flow
  • Preparing monthly forecast and reports for FTZ business
  • Leading the monthly MOM meeting for FTZ business, which covers depletion update, customer stocks on hand and shipment status
  • Verifying depletion support claims
  • Preparing value chain analysis relating to new business opportunities
  • Preparing half-yearly Investors Relationship Report (IRR)
  • Leading in the discounting process and play a key role in ensuring that SEA cash conversion % targets are met
  • Owning the relationship with Global Pricing Team and ensure compliance with commercial decision in pricing
  • Participating in monthly S&OP meeting with key customer
  • Driving sales forecast accuracy
  • Being the Controls Assurance and Risk Management (CARM) Champion – Diageo internal control program, where we assess, test and report on the effectiveness of internal controls; to obtain satisfactory ratings for yearly CARM audit
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Commercial Finance Manager South & East Resume Examples & Samples

  • Chain Account Contract negotiation & review
  • Pro-forma analysis of new business
  • Rebate agreement review
  • Commercial governance (price corridors, incentive accruals, contract reviews)
  • 7+ years varied corporate finance experience
  • Excellent English and a second language Italian mandatory
  • Strong cross- functional communication, analytical and data management skills
  • Technical skills (SAP, Excel)
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Commercial Finance Manager Baltics Resume Examples & Samples

  • Develop productive relationships with the Finance team of our Bottling Partner and beyond and within the Franchise Operations Team to maintain in depth understanding and transparency of system financials
  • Conduct Business performance analytics on a monthly basis with regular pro-active feedback to the teams
  • Continuous revision of plans, creation of rolling estimate for Baltics, identification of risks and opportunities incl. mitigation plans
  • Post-evaluation of key marketing activities to provide input for country manager to improve plans
  • Min. Master degree in business studies with major in finance/economics or similar proficiency –
  • Experience within a challenging and dynamic environment with internal and external customers
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English are required; Estonian, Lithuanian or Latvian language skills is an asset
  • 15-20 % international Travel may be required
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Direct the financial strategy of the company and influence key business decisions by articulating the financial implications of opportunities and threats based on a deep understanding of the facts and recommending necessary actions/initiatives
  • Manage the System Economic Models, by continuously maintaining the financial models and working closely with various business functions, Bottling Partners and Region Management
  • Lead the system economics analysis and benchmarking - provide the business with a deep understanding of financial condition and economics of the system, comprising the company, the bottler and the customer through the lens of packages and brands resulting in a well-defined OBPPC and thus building incidence
  • Synthesize and analyze key operating and financial benchmarks for existing bottling operations vs. other comparable franchise bottling operations, International Bottler operations, Competition, etc., leading to improved productivity across the system
  • Analysis of new product financials through strong cross functional collaboration, developing system value chains and provide recommended options on pricing, margins and incidence rates. Maintain Finance Modules in Coke Works
  • Periodic update of system value chain information for existing products, by SKU by channel to ensure pricing strategies are sustainable and appropriate value sharing models are implemented. Assist Commercial and Marketing teams with Revenue Growth Management (RGM) initiatives
  • Engage bottlers / customers / other stakeholders and facilitate open discussions resulting in greater financial transparency which helps the joint planning process and eventually leads to higher value creation for the system
  • Preparation and review of key customers P&Ls for the system (KO and Bottlers), support pricing re-negotiation efforts through scenario planning as well as managing the internal Customer Pricing Analysis (CPA) process
  • Support RFM with System Economics, System profitability models, Long Range Financial modelling, monthly RE process, and any Ad hoc commercial finance projects
  • Provide the business with Competitor financial drivers/analysis and scenario planning
  • Minimum 8 years of experience in Commercial Finance / Planning and Analysis roles in FMCG or Consumer goods related industry,
  • Advanced Excel Modeling proficiency and Power Point Presentation skills,
  • Exposure to and knowledge of ERP / Analytical tools such as SAP, Oracle Hyperion, etc.,
  • High proficiency in Communication and Presentation Skills
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Defining the overall strategy and vision of West Central Africa through very close cooperation with the LCT GM
  • One-stop Finance Rep towards the GM and external partners – being amongst other things the link to the central FP&A teams
  • Close cooperation with EAGM, Africa zone and local Controllers
  • Strong contributor to Africa & EAGM FP&A for developing estimates, operating plans/forecasts/reviews
  • Driving profitable growth by providing analysis of results and reporting key metrics while advising the West Central Africa leadership team on risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions
  • Effectively manage, and coordinate the commercial finance activities across the region
  • Lead cross-functional projects focused on improving rigor in key Finance processes, reducing costs & improving profitability, such as Pricing, Warranty Accounting, Inventory
  • Help manage the GOF relationship by driving better quality input and monitoring and working collaboratively to improve GOF output
  • Compliance in challenging countries
  • Experience in presenting to high level management of private and government customers
  • Proven Track record of working successfully in a very diverse international and cross-cultural environment, ideally some years of residence / work in one of the larger markets of the region
  • Experience of BD / Due Diligence and Risk assessment
  • Approach business leaders with difficult messages and defend position; for example, work closely with business leaders to achieve business objectives while driving controllership/GE Values
  • Flexible in traveling in- and outside West Central Africa & the wider EAGM region
  • Graduate of GE's Financial Management Program (FMP), Experienced Financial Leadership
  • Program (EFLP) or Corporate Audit Staff (CAS); or graduate of other financial leadership programs of other companies
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline and proven years of experience in Finance or related function
  • Solid Analytical Skills
  • Prior management experience
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • To act as partner to the business, driving great performance by producing high quality plans and outlooks, analysing the business against those plans and working with team members to improve performance
  • To leverage financial leadership to partner and coach cross functional team members, ignite curiosity and facilitate value-creating decisions
  • To embed a culture and way of working across the team through using and developing analysis tools to ensure we are effectively and efficiently managing team performance
  • Promote strong sense of urgency and focus within team
  • MBA with 3-5 years Finance experience as manager, preferably in FMCG
  • Strong financial analysis skills, financial modelling skills
  • Ability to build relationship and influence people
  • Ability to work under ambiguity and cut through the quick decision
  • SAP-BW experience is preferable
  • Proficient in Excel
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Commercial Finance Manager, Product Cost Resume Examples & Samples

  • Analyse the composition of product costs - materials, labour, overhead and profit
  • Gather and report on cost information from the market and the supplier community
  • Provide product costing guidance for seasonal forecasts, budget, and three-year plan
  • Report upon supplier financial performance, providing insights to Procurement, Sourcing and Development
  • Work on cross-functional project teams to bring cost savings in the product area
  • Ensure that investments in the areas of Product Quality and Engineering are delivering improved sales/margin
  • Navigate and provide commercial challenge to business leaders in Supply Chain
  • Track initiatives and saving projects through Supply Chain to their final impact on Gross Margin
  • Develop insightful reporting and analysis to report on costs incurred due to waste
  • Provide cash flow forecast to Treasury department to allow forex hedges to be placed as appropriate
  • Ad hoc analysis to support senior management
  • Line management responsibility for x1 Analyst
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Management of the sales forecast process by customer, sales person and product
  • Assist in the production and reporting for monthly closings, budget and forecasts covering revenue and costs (full profit and loss visibility)
  • Report and improve the visibility of the various revenue streams
  • Management and preparation of sales targets
  • Production of KPI reports including analysis by departments and fee earner performance
  • Own, analyse and reconcile all key metrics
  • Develop and maintain the business pricing structure and models
  • Preparation of succinct, insightful, financial and commercially-focused commentary
  • Maintain effective financial reporting systems and controls to ensure timely and accurate and compliant financial reporting and analysis
  • Manage the new implementation of the Financial Dashboard, simplifying the reports for Business Lines and Regional Heads
  • Provide regular financial analysis and provide qualitative and quantitative information to determine business units and client performance
  • Manage the monitoring of a CRM system for the Finance function
  • Produce elaborate complex reporting and assist with delivery of the Group annual planning process
  • Work in partnership with Head of Business Lines and Regional Heads to report and improve visibility on performance and targets
  • Improve the visibility of the client profitability reports - focusing on the business and driving the strategy of targeting new clients from it
  • Reinforce the quality and accuracy of the revenue reports, budgets and reforecast
  • Improve production process and accuracy of the entire commercial finance function
  • Build on the reputation of the commercial finance department, finding new and innovative ways to support the business
  • Develop enhanced reporting and analytical tools to improve decision making process
  • Drive project decisions and challenge stakeholder assumptions to ensure robust decision making
  • Degree level education
  • Qualified member of an accountancy body (ACA/ACCA or CIMA) or holder of an equivalent qualification
  • Advance MS Office skills (especially Excel) other reporting systems would be a plus
  • Management reporting and commercial finance
  • Budgeting and forecasting, financial modelling, pricing, KPI analysis, etc
  • Strong communicator and ability to create internal relationships (business partnering)
  • Strong character with confidence in challenging existing protocol and stakeholders
  • Excellent planning and organisational skills
  • Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills
  • Ideally, knowledge of CRM systems
  • Real Estate or brokerage experience will be an advantage
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Design process to track and report Partner Sourced and Influenced deals across GE Digital
  • Provide Partner deals transactional support (bid risk and reward balance), as needed
  • Partner with Go-to-Market and CE organizations to support Global Channels QMI
  • Lead Channels & Alliances budget and forecasting processes
  • Design and build budgets based on defined goals and initiatives that drive organizational success while building a culture of expense control in a high-growth environment
  • Provide accurate forecasting supported by Channels & Alliances specific financial and operating metrics
  • Liaison with GE Digital Commercial FP&A for planning and reporting
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline
  • 5 years work experience in Commercial Finance or Financial Planning & Analysis
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and achieve quality results Creative and innovative problem solving skills
  • Demonstrated ability as a self-starter
  • Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional team and a matrix environment
  • CAS or seasoned FMP graduate
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Be responsible to ensure that new business is priced up accurately and that all known risks (financial and non-financial) are documented & understood
  • Influence decisions on key commercial items, and where appropriate own the financial and pricing provisions on any bids
  • Be involved in creating innovative pricing mechanisms
  • Complete finance and legal briefs highlighting key areas which would cause deviations away from financials
  • Be involved in competitive dialogue and negotiations with non finance professionals
  • Actively seek areas where improvements can be made and seek to act upon them
  • Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
  • Previous "large company" experience
  • Products experience - and experience in bids and pricing
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills
  • Experience of winning &/or retaining contracts
  • Experience of models, understanding how to interpret them and how to flex them
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Business partner with Commercial Teams to build strong relationships
  • Monitor budgets and spend
  • Provide management with key analysis and reporting
  • Ideally relevant experience in an FMCG/Retail background, and have gained solid business partnering experience
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Senior Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Managing and analysis of system economics including scenario planning working closely with commercial teams and bottler finance teams for short term and long term projections supporting SBP and EBP routines
  • Responsible to develop new products and new SKUs system value chains and margins analysis working closely with bottler and commercial teams. Provide commercial finance support on development of OBPPC initiatives
  • Ensure Compliance to Global CPA Protocols, process compliance with regards to implementation of Value Sharing Mechanism, Concentrate Pricing protocols and other relevant policies
  • Competitor analysis – tracking of financial and business performance of key FMCG players and MNCs. Provide periodic updates and benchmark analysis to the senior management teams
  • Provide financial and strategic support to the Finance Director and leadership teams on new finance initiatives and business projects
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Act as Commercial Finance business partner to all areas of Brand Experience building excellent relationships with key stakeholders (including 5 Directors, 10 Heads Of Department)
  • Own & deliver a timely & accurate monthly re-forecast across 10 cost/activity centres in Brand Experience being fully aware of & communicating any risks or opportunities to the forecast
  • Drive the ‘Content / Propositions Valuation’ project forward with the data analytics community (Finance, CRM, CI, Insight) to understand customer value of our proposition by building & assessing payback models
  • Become an expert in ASOS Brand Experience strategy & ensure strategy is known & communicated across ASOS Finance
  • Provide strategic direction to BX stakeholders & challenge decisions in a constructive manner
  • Pick up new areas of reporting & analysis including Gift Card reporting & forecasting (retail & online vouchers)
  • Provide regular ad hoc analysis and support on BX campaigns including KPI planning & analysis, working closely with other departments across the business
  • Management & development of Finance Analyst in Brand Experience
  • 2+ years of post-qualified experience performing a commercial finance role preferably in the Retail or e-Commerce industry
  • Commercially aware within the e-commerce and retail industry
  • Ability to be proactive within a fast-paced, dynamic environment susceptible to change
  • Advanced Excel skills and computer literate with the ability to work with and manipulate large amounts of data
  • Customer focused
  • Strong communication skills especially with non-finance colleagues
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Continuous revision of plans, creation of rolling estimate for Ukraine, identification of risks and opportunities incl. mitigation plans
  • Understanding of the Bottling Company financials based on information gained from current cooperation, maintaining knowledge on profit split for the system
  • Post-evaluation of key marketing activities to provide input to improve plans
  • Provide clear analytical tools for the business and engage the teams to proactively use them
  • Provide relevant information and required reporting to the BU teams as per reporting schedule or need
  • CIMA or similar qualification preferable
  • Minimum 5-7 years of cross-functional financial experience in an international company – preferably within FMCG, Commercial Finance, Business Partnering
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English are required
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Southern Africa Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • One-on-One Partner with the GM and his/her staff to drive operating performance & act as champion for pricing, preparation of sales plan/monthly estimation of revenue to standard margin,
  • Playing a key role in development & execution of structured finance solutions for customers. Ability to interact with financing partners & banks and develop products under the oversight of the Africa CFO and the Global Financing Organisation
  • Defining the overall strategy and vision of Southern Africa through very close cooperation with the LCT GM
  • Proactively recognize standard revenue recognition practices in close cooperation with Controllership, deal escalation, contribution margin walks
  • Close cooperation with SHS, Africa zone and local Controllers
  • Strong contributor to Africa & SHS FP&A for developing estimates, operating plans/forecasts/reviews
  • Driving profitable growth by providing analysis of results and reporting key metrics while advising the Southern Africa leadership team on risks and opportunities, as well as recommending actions
  • Provide financial analysis and insight in support of business decision making needs, including evaluation of major risks and opportunities
  • Help define the IT platform and requirements to support analysis, improve data visibility and ensure controllership
  • Ensure Integrity is upheld throughout all processes, policies and practices, by ensuring appropriate communication, training and prioritization of related activities
  • Support the cash initiatives across the Cash / Credit / Risk Manager
  • Actively manage distributor performance, specifically on cash, through frequent direct interaction
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration and minimum of 15 years of financial and/or Commercial work experience
  • Experience within a commercial bank, trade finance or risk functions; or relevant Sales & Project Finance experience in a multi-national environment
  • Demonstrated experience and understanding of Accounting Principles and Controllership /
  • Strategic thinking/Able to understand market and financial trends and be able to recommend programs and tools to promote sales and services
  • Solid PC skills: experience with financial systems/applications, strong Excel skills in data compilation and aggregation
  • Demonstrated GE values and growth traits
  • Confidence / Assertiveness: strong influencing skills across business functions; confidence to
  • Flexible in traveling in- and outside Southern Africa & the wider SHS region
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Develop various economic models of the commercial proposal and business model to
  • Use externally as the commercial, customer-facing business model to support the LCD opportunity engagement
  • Use internally to quantify the deal value which may extend to various risk-sharing strategies and alternatives, multi-year managed services and implications to the Cisco revenue stream of such decisions
  • Include cost structures specific to, or supporting the project
  • Develop the financial models that underpin the proposition, working proactively to develop business models to maintain the “initiative” with the customer
  • Socialization of the financial strategy within Cisco across relevant stakeholders to ensure alignment and commitment to the strategy
  • Work with the Business Entities, Services, Operations, Tax, and Revenue Accounting to capture, quantify and agree risk modelling that clearly identifies and manages the risk to Cisco bookings and revenues explicitly
  • Case studies
  • Participation in the CFO Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) of XaaS deals
  • Post mortem deal analysis
  • Contribute to the development of the Cisco risk management methodology for complex deals so as to standardize and make decision frameworks and the application of tools more replicable within the context of making Cisco revenue streams more reliable and predictable
  • Must have strong financial modeling skills
  • 10-15+ years in proven commercial environment
  • Proven complex deal experience with a demonstrated ability to create high-quality customer-facing and internal-facing models
  • Understand scenario planning, and risk management / assessment techniques
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Costing & Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA)
  • Proven costing and/or commercial finance experience
  • Ability to digest and analyse multiple data sources to provide valuable insight in support of business decision making
  • Excellent computer skills (including Excel at pivot, vlookups, sumifs level)
  • Experience in a manufacturing / FMCG or retail environment would be a plus
  • Ability to interact effectively with functional stakeholders (Commercial, Operations and R&D functions) in building management reporting tools and business partnering to drive customer focus and cost structure efficiencies
  • Have a ‘hands on’ approach in a financial and operational context
  • Task management and personal organization – ability to organize own work and the work of the Costing & Commercial Finance team
  • Improve the flow of financial information to the organisation and its business partners
  • Coordinate the cost accounting activities – including standard costing rates, FX rates and production variances
  • Act as primary point of contact to the Commercial and Business Development teams in setting pricing & discount strategies, supported by sound cost-margin analysis tools
  • Support strengthening the Commercial finance tools in driving profitable top line growth (customer intelligence and competitive landscape, customer profitability, sales and bookings tracking, product life cycle impacts etc.)
  • Inventory management - drive inventory level improvements by building a tracking process to pro-actively identify excess and slow moving items, support cycle & full inventory counts
  • Support SIOP implementation from a finance perspective
  • Maintain a continuous assessment of risks and opportunities for each value stream within the BU in achieving its year-end financial budget/forecast and strategic objectives
  • Support implementation of a CAPEX tracking process and structure to monitor the Wireless investment needs over the year, to ensure alignment with the Strategy Plan and Budget as well as assess the business priority and financial impact
  • Project management support/coordination and other ad-hoc initiatives
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • A minimum of a Bachelor's degree required, preferably with a major in Accounting, Finance, or Business
  • CPA, CMA, and/or MBA are preferred
  • A minimum of five (5) years progressive accounting experience or related business experience is required
  • Experience in Commercial Sales/Marketing support is preferred
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint is required
  • The ability to think strategically and creatively and work in a team environment is required
  • Must possess ability to lead a team and drive change
  • Must have strong communication, presentation, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
  • This position requires a highly motivated individual with strong analytical skills, intellectual curiosity and proven leadership skills
  • The ability to lead a project or team and drive results through others is required
  • This position may require up to 5% domestic travel
  • This position will be located in Irvine, CA.Finance
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide financial insight into sales results, forecasts and budgets
  • Provide technical advice to the global sales team on commercial finance
  • Support month end reporting
  • Lead the commercial budgeting process
  • Manage the business credit control process
  • Support the wider Chemicals business across month end activities and other ad-hoc projects
  • Qualified accountant – CIMA, ACA, ACCA (essential)
  • Demonstrated commercial finance experience
  • Ability to translate complex financial data for use by those without a finance background
  • Experience of using SAP would be advantageous
  • Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel
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Senior Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Minimum Bachelor Degree (S1) or equivalent (preferable from accounting or finance) with minimum 8 years of work experience in accounting or finance positions
  • Qualified accountant preferable
  • Strong knowledge and understanding of FMCG business model
  • Strong knowledge & understanding of management reporting
  • Knowledge of tobacco industry is an added advantage
  • Strong & effective leadership while maintaining right level of attention to detail
  • Strong team player with excellent interpersonal & communication skills
  • Ability to work with all levels of staff and management across functions
  • Proactive and open to change & new ideas
  • Able to work in a disciplined and cohesive manner with the brand team
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering or related field from an accredited college or university
  • Significant finance experience
  • Experience working in matrix environment
  • Fluent in German and English
  • Demonstrated program / project management skills
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills
  • Prior experience in Financial Planning and Analysis, Order-to-Remittance Finance, banking sector
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Work with the business areas to develop KPIs, set targets and provide on-going performance monitoring to support business to deliver results across the franchise brands, Indies and new business initiatives (film, virtual reality etc)
  • Provide assistance with modelling business opportunities by investment case preparation for both existing business cases and new business opportunities to support development of commercial strategy
  • Provide financial interpretation of complex distribution, agency and digital partnership contracts for new business initiatives
  • Provide analysis and interpretation of the business area results, using monthly reporting packs to support the business to deliver the results
  • Co-ordinate development of quarterly forecasts to support the Finance Director / Head of Finance to deliver quarterly forecasts for the business areas
  • Lead, motivate, develop and manage the performance of junior team members, being an active member of a high calibre team with the skills and capabilities needed to deliver the required results
  • Professional qualification in accountancy (preferably ACA or CIMA) and able to demonstrate experience PQE
  • Proven track record in commercial finance is essential in a management accounting environment
  • Media sector and consumer facing business experience is desirable
  • Experience of working in a global organisation with regional / multi-site finance teams, is desirable
  • Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel (including pivot tables) and Powerpoint. SAP and BW experience preferable
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Assistant Commercial Finance Manager FTC Resume Examples & Samples

  • To support decision making and delivery of governance requirements for a subset of EEMEA markets supported through the BATUKE legal entity
  • To manage the relationship with end market teams, area teams and supply chain organisations, proactively providing support to key stakeholders and managing issue resolution
  • Ensure financial planning at an end market level is robust, challenging assumptions where necessary to ensure integrity of plans. Support knowledge transfer into the Financial Controlling team to ensure control objectives and effective manage of credit and foreign exchange risk
  • Play a key role in the management of business change initiatives, ensuring appropriate project management approaches are adopted to ensure successful delivery of initiatives on time and in full
  • Provide end market related inputs to Quarterly Board updates for the subset of markets for which responsible
  • Qualified accountant with post qualification experience
  • SAP knowledge
  • Excellent influencing and communications skills with ability to interact with all levels of senior management
  • Ability to work effectively with all levels of staff within the Company and externally
  • Business understanding and awareness of all other functions and their interface with finance
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • As Finance Manager you will be providing insightful financial information and commercial support, to the packaging site operational teams
  • Coordinate and lead the annual financial planning process for the operational area, agreeing targets for the following financial year with stakeholders
  • Champion a robust control environment ensuring compliance with CARM. Constantly strive to improve accounting & control processes and champion the Code of Business Conduct
  • Be able to demonstrate on how use of functional skills has made a difference in a number of previously challenging roles
  • An enquiring & analytical mind capable of seeing the big picture while also demonstrating attention to detail
  • Self-motivated and resilient, able to proactively identify issues and drive delivery of solutions
  • Experience of managing and participating in cross functional teams
  • Experience of working effectively with non-financial stakeholders to deliver financial outcomes
  • Proven ability to engage and influence all levels of management
  • Display a willingness to make a difference in role
  • Able to self-manage and prioritise effectively
  • Ideally 2+ years’ experience in a commercial environment
  • A good understanding of what is manufacturing excellence and what difference can it make to a business
  • Experience of working within a FMCG manufacturing environment with demanding production and financial targets will be advantageous
  • Ability to work with a wide range of stakeholders across different disciplines and build strong relationships quickly
  • Proactively identify, drive and lead business improvement in your site
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Holder of professional financial qualifications (E.g. CIMA, ACCA)
  • Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
  • The ability to conduct finance conference calls and senior level financial updates
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Performance Reporting & Insight – Work across the Business Intelligence team, Group Reporting and market teams to drive consistent, relevant and timely sales reporting and analysis
  • Financial Planning – Integration of Digital into the existing ‘Latest Estimate’ financial planning process
  • Support ‘Test & Learn’ Initiatives – Establish robust processes to track the impact and ROI of demand generation initiatives and campaigns
  • Cross Channel Metrics – Influence Digital BBI investment by benchmarking the cost / benefit of Digital Marketing activities against traditional channels
  • Qualified accountant with extensive experience in similar role
  • Curiosity and problem solving skills, with determination and perseverance to push changes through
  • Ability to analyse data and trends
  • Ability to bring structure, planning and prioritization to a less structured environment in order to meet deadlines
  • Languages desirable
  • Experience gained within a Digital environment would be preferred
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Advise upon and adhere to divisional and group governance and control processes including internal audit and Capita risk control processes
  • Provide commercial support to the contract particularly around change control
  • Monitor performance of supporting work streams, ensuring a “no surprises” culture exists through adequate challenge and support to finance, business and operational leads on business unit level forecasts across the different services and across the company
  • Manage monthly reporting process for the contract, including agreement with the Client for invoicing and the financial management of the IT work stream
  • Actively lead and manage for the partnership all work on working capital and cash management
  • Monitor key performance indicators and calculate and liaise with the client around any financial penalties
  • Work closely with the Partnership Director to develop growth opportunities to the wider NHS market
  • Monitor the contract volumetrics and calculate any financial implications
  • Qualified Accountant, ACA / ACCA or CIMA
  • Strong financial reporting experience within large & complex organisation / contract
  • Excellent written & verbal communication skills, able to influence & engage senior stakeholders
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Commercial Finance Manager Guinness Storehouse Resume Examples & Samples

  • Qualified accountant with 3 + years PQE and/or MBA equivalent
  • Credible at FD, MD and senior leadership team level
  • Can demonstrate a strong track record of financial control, governance & compliance and achievement within a commercial environment
  • Able to find solutions in a dynamic environment challenge, flexing approach and challenging existing ways of working to identify and delivery opportunities and efficiencies
  • Ability to achieve results by working with and influencing other teams
  • Good communication and interpersonal capabilities
  • Project management capability delivering through from concept to implementation stage
  • People Management experience is required
  • Strong systems skills with knowledge of SAP accounting environments an advantage
  • Experience of either Tourism, Retail Marketing or FMCG Marketing would be an advantage
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Assistant Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Support delivery of management reporting for WECT Finance
  • Management of the relationship with end market teams and Cluster teams, acting as their key point of contact and providing the link to the wider WECT Finance team and other supporting functions
  • Proactively provide support to key stakeholders in respect of issue resolution in the management of Cost of Sales
  • Embrace and implement change and integrated ways of working
  • Support the management of the Cost of Sales (CoS) line: understand key drivers and assist end markets in preparing variance analysis at key reporting times
  • Support Regional performance analysis by managing restatement of costs to a standard approach and preparing reports detailing Unrealised Profit in Stock
  • Manage, review and challenge recharges below gross margin (e.g. GSD, T&A, Marketing Investment, etc.)
  • Maintain key balance sheet items (Creditors, Debtors)
  • Develop and maintain a detailed understanding of each market including key performance drivers and market dynamics to become an effective partner to WECT stakeholders
  • Provide end market related inputs to Quarterly updates for the subset of markets for which responsible
  • Ensure financial planning at an end market level is robust, challenging assumptions where necessary to ensure integrity of plans. Support knowledge transfer into the Financial Controlling team to ensure full alignment between end market and WECT, as well as leverage efficiencies
  • Support end markets in calculation of quarterly transfer pricing updates in line with the LRD model, providing a critical review of the detailed calculations
  • Build a strong network within BAT to ensure that issues can be quickly identified and resolved
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Commercial Finance Manager CEC Resume Examples & Samples

  • To drive proactively pricing and excise agenda in the cluster (facilitation of Pricing and Excise meetings, price noting, Regional requirements), providing relevant and valuable insights for effective pricing decision making process
  • To undertake analysis of competitors pricing, marketing investment and overall profitability
  • To provide marketing management with financial information and Key Performance Indicators on Brand and Trade Marketing plans and activities, while facilitating effective decision making and improving efficiency and effectiveness of spend across the cluster. The job holder proactively participates in the marketing decision making process, bringing financial / business focus to marketing activities as well as a marketing function focus to financial issues
  • To supervise the preparation of the marketing budget/plan and to provide accurate and timely information to assist marketing management in monitoring ongoing performance
  • To provide Commercial Finance support in forecasting and planning process
  • To provide Commercial Finance support to end markets (trading terms and conditions, distributor remuneration)
  • To act as a change agent that develops the department’s skill sets to focus on the value-added Marketing support in Central Europe Cluster focussing on the following areas of
  • Pricing and Excise
  • Distribution and Trade Remuneration support to end markets
  • Marketing Effectiveness and Efficiency
  • Ensures a challenging, supportive, and achievement-focused environment to motivate and develop Marketing Finance staff
  • Encourage development of staffs through education & training (e.g. excel, IFRS etc.)
  • Identifies and develops a successor from the lower levels of the pipeline
  • Ensure Talent & Reward cycles are followed OTIF
  • Ensure that all administrative activities related to Managing Team (Joiner, Mover, Leaver), recruitment, performance improvement, time-off etc are performed and followed OTIF
  • Ensure that appropriate performance objectives are in place for all employees within the team and measured against targets OTIF
  • Provide timely feedback and clarity on performance standards whilst coaching and developing performance of the team
  • Encourage development of the team through 70-20-10 concept
  • University degree in Economics or relevant area
  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken
  • High command in MS Office
  • At least 3 years of experience in Finance department in FMCG company
  • Deep knowledge in pricing, excise, portfolio strategy and budgeting
  • Effective leader / driver of new initiatives
  • Proactive, persuasive, creative and prepared to challenge existing ideas
  • Provider of financial insights regarding the impact of marketing strategies
  • Project management skills; the ability to define clear priorities in multi-project environments
  • Coaching, mentoring and leadership skills
  • Understanding of all functions within a FMCG company
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Commercial Finance Manager, NE Resume Examples & Samples

  • Build an in depth understanding of system economics and thorough knowledge of Bottler finance to support system economic modelling
  • Manage the financial results of the country operating unit, with a focus on driving NSR performance. Identify risks and opportunities and recommend corrective actions
  • Build System value Chains for all brands and projects, and implement WEBU pricing and value sharing guidelines with the Bottlers
  • Implement in collaboration with country Bottler, pricing, funding and cost sharing arrangements as per WEBU guidelines that allow i) capture BPPC opportunities, ii) achieve equitable value growth, and iii) drive the right behavior
  • Propose NPD and Brand Extensions pricing based on System value Chain analysis and agreed value sharing guidelines with the Bottler
  • Develop system P&L analysis by Brand Pack and Channel and update System financial data in VCM in collaboration with Bottler and WE BU System Economics Team
  • 6-10 years of relevant working experience
  • Knowledge of TCCC business
  • Ability to work in a team, both with internal and external partners
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Partner with Team Leader/Marketing Leader to “own” the appropriate P&L. Understand and influence drivers of all P&L buckets in support of division objectives, challenge assumptions and drive adjustments as needed. Obtain & provide clarity when numbers are off trend and work with Team Lead to course correct. Ensure attainment of financial and stretch objectives as committed
  • Prepare timely and accurate category/sales plans, forecasts, outlooks and strategic views
  • Ensure a seat at the decision table and provide high caliber respected advice / information for all strategic business initiatives
  • Manage functionality, usage and continuous improvement of various financial tools, process and procedures
  • Maintain positive and proactive interaction with category/sales management to ensure ongoing, effective two-way working relationships for exchange of quality financial information
  • Provide analytical support
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Energise and mobilise the commercial functions and create momentum behind the business financial agenda
  • Guide the development and support the implementation of distributor financing schemes to enhance delivery and achievement of business targets
  • Develop and nurture relationships key business stakeholders to further achievement of business goals
  • Contribute to the formulation of the Commercial Strategy by developing short to medium term operational forecasts and leading the commercial annual budgeting process
  • Maximise return on investment by holding the business to account to deploy our financial resources in the most effective way and supporting commercial teams through Decision Support activity to do this
  • Build financial capabilities of the commercial teams to help them formulate and deliver sound commercial plans
  • Provide leadership on compliance and act as a champion of compliance and ethics within the commercial teams. Own the integrity and control of customer profitability, ensuring business information provided is accurate and fair
  • Continuous process improvement and simplification will be a key enabler for the realisation of the business’ growth ambitions. The CFM is expected to challenge established ways of working and constantly improve commercial processes (e.g. R&O, BPM, Working Capital Forecasting, etc.)
  • 1st Degree in a business related field
  • Qualified Accountant (CPA (K), ACCA, ACA, ACMA)
  • 5+ years financial, commercial & market experience in accounting/analytical roles within the FMCG industry and experience of managing teams
  • Business Performance evaluation
  • Budgeting & Forecasting for multiple business functions
  • Good internal/external communicator being able to build strong relationships, influencing and presenting at a senior level
  • Knowledge of local market environment & trends, government policy and regulatory requirements
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Performs various financial analyses of new products to ensure optimal use of financial resources resulting in profitable volume growth. Prepares System/Value chain Profitability analyses as basis for decision-making
  • Quarterly NPD(new product development) reports which are used for NPD profitability analysis and NPD rebate settlement between KO and Bottler. Regular risk and opportunity measurement from NPD categories (to be used for BP/RE report led by Financial Planning team)
  • Analyze projected bottler financials for Business Plan purposes and compare versus financials provided by the Bottler for increased understanding of drivers affecting system profitability, as needed. (e.g. System Dashboard Report, Bottler Financial Reports etc)
  • Conduct post-launch review and analysis of product and price initiatives to determine financial impact of the project compared to the targets
  • Perform ad-hoc tasks that may be assigned from time to time
  • Managerial Accounting over intermediate level
  • Financial management, GAAP, General Tax and Financial Analysis
  • Overall Business/Brand Strategy, Insight on business
  • KO Standard Financial Reporting policies and planning practices
  • Well-organized, able to prioritize work
  • Ability to work under pressure with tight deadline
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Mercosul Line-commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Work with CFO and commercial leaders to drive improved performance trough performance metrics and indicators, providing financial reporting and analysis, and participating as financial representative in key strategic initiatives
  • Assist in preparing the forecast and ensure accurate and correct assumptions are used to reflect the best estimate for a true future picture for revenues. Make sure that all assumptions are properly documented and communicated and ensure that all relevant assumptions are being included
  • Ensure all monies due to the organization are collected promptly by contacting customers referred by clerks; investigating circumstances of non-payment; negotiating and resolving conflicts
  • Conduct credit checks on all customer, establish, manage limits, report and monitor any deviation
  • Ensure all cash received are properly applied via proper management of all cash applications
  • Report on weekly basis: cash receipt, DSO, aging totals, and invoicing totals
  • Accomplishes accounts receivable human resource objectives by selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising job contributions
  • Four year Degree in Administration, Economy, Accounting or Engineering (with emphasis in Finance)
  • Knowledge of SAP in Accounting to Reporting (ATR), Order to Cash (OTC), Receipt to Purchase (RTP), and Business Warehouse (BW)
  • Minimum of five years’ experience in credit provision and debt collections, including managerial experience
  • Experience in participating in cross-functional teams working on technical and operational projects desired
  • Very strong Excel and PowerPoint knowledge necessary
  • Very strong analytical skill set and ability to review complex problems and provide solutions
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal relations, good presentation skills, and cooperative skills
  • Ability to interact and communicate effectively with all levels of management
  • Fluency in English is mandatory
  • Fluency in Spanish is an advantage
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Finance lead to prepare and maintain a holistic value chain for business decision
  • Lead system profitability improvement through value chain improvement
  • Lead and support other financial analysis and review
  • Revenue Management
  • Identify Profitable Volume Targets
  • Portfolio Management
  • Business communication skills
  • At least 8-10 years’ experience, preferably worked/exposed to commercial in FMCG or Bottling operations
  • Ability to translate thought leadership into tangible action/results
  • University degree or above preferably in Finance or Business Administration
  • CPA/ACCA/CGMA/MBA preferred
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EU Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Supervise the collection and consolidation of all sales and order information from all GVR factories on a daily basis
  • Supervise the upload and management of the data into the Intuitive business dashboard system, and providing training and development as required
  • Coordinate the Daily, Weekly and Monthly reporting of key Sales and Order statistics to business partners
  • Manage the Sales Forecast process for all regions, liaising directly with the Sales leads, providing updates and reports
  • Conduct variance analysis as required, providing consolidated analysis to the FP&A Director and other stakeholders
  • Coordinate the latest Sales forecast information with the factories, supporting the PSI process
  • Work with the CRM (Salesforce.com) to drive strong analytics focused on funnel, conversion, book and turn etc
  • Provide support to the Sales community with tender preparation and analysis, providing recommendations to the business partners and Finance and Managing Directors
  • Coordinate with the Marketing teams the company price lists including updates and changes and guide the team on discount strategies
  • Drive a range of Pricing activity, including margin leakage and waterfalls, coordinating cross functional teams with a price-improvement action plan, and the development and management of Price Variation formulas
  • Measure the impact of price actions on a monthly basis and input into HFM
  • Produce the required management reports to support weekly / monthly meetings, and the provision and reporting of relevant and accurate KPIs
  • Monitor, measure, manage and recommend changes as required to the Sales Bonus Scheme
  • Conduct direct margin analysis, proving clear insight to the business on the impact of price and mix. Prepare scatter plots of volume/margin and help formulate Tail Management strategies
  • Provide financial information and analysis on a customer level to the commercial teams, and assist with analysis of prospective distributor partners
  • Establish direct relationships with financial leaders at our key strategic accounts
  • Other ad-hoc analysis as required
  • Supervise the Sales Business Analyst who will support on data collection and reporting
  • Interface closely with each of the factories, proving them with detailed Sales Forecast information (PSI process)
  • Need to comfortably work with all levels of the business (including senior European directors) with respect to Sales and Order Analysis, Forecasting, variance analysis, and other ad hoc analysis as required
  • Interface with other Fortive companies as required
  • Strong academics preferably including Finance/Business Studies and/or mathematics and/or History, plus a professional Accounting qualification such as ACA, CIMA or international equivalent
  • Advanced Excel Skills. IT literate good understanding of all MS Office applications
  • Good analytical and organizational skills
  • Experience of Salesforce or a similar CRM would be an advantage but not essential
  • Be able to manipulate and process large sets of data, using MS office applications
  • Show strong learning agility and apply a proactive process-improvement mindset
  • Be able to provide the bigger picture and verbalise the strategic intent of actions, but nevertheless have a close-eye on the detail, managing their work by fact and not supposition
  • Holds themselves accountable for performance and meeting customer requirements
  • High Personal Integrity and operates within Fortive’s Standards of Conduct
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Commercial & Finance Manager, Middle East Resume Examples & Samples

  • Support MD & FD, advising on financial matters and ensuring delivery of business and operational objectives
  • Support MD & FD in providing insight to aid forward-looking decision making
  • Support monthly close activities, in particular, interpreting results and manage monthly routines with Hub management team
  • Drive planning, analysis, coordination, and consolidation of corporate strategic plan, annual operating plan, quarterly forecast and monthly actuals reporting requirements
  • Analyse financial data by collecting, monitoring and creating financial models for decision support
  • Define and report regularly on KPI's as agreed with ME LT, recommending and driving mitigating actions where required
  • Help manage routines around key risks and opportunities across the Hub by collaborating with the commercial and finance teams
  • Support decisions on Product & Portfolio, ensuring they are measured against financial targets
  • Identify and address operational improvement and cost opportunities. Contribute and support to Finance transformation initiatives as required
  • Work collaboratively with Finance Business Partners to deliver key reporting, planning and forecasting processes providing accurate and timely future facing data on which to base decisions
  • Work collaboratively with Finance Business Partners to ensure targets, instructions and templates issued are clear and efficient
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Take full ownership for the EMEA P&L revenue number ensuring all G/L postings made by the Accounting Services team are correct and all reporting is accurate
  • Proactive and timely communication of insightful commercial performance information/reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis to drive successful achievement of the monthly and quarterly target expectations
  • Business Partnering - Provide daily business partnering to the EMEA Sales directors, Marketing and product Management
  • Forecasting - Own monthly and quarterly forecasting ensuring accountability and accuracy with a clear plan to achieve planned results, including defined risks and opportunities
  • Price – Own the EMEA pricing target, tracking actuals and providing understanding and support to the business to drive key actions
  • Commissions - Own the EMEA sales team commission plans from a finance perspective, ensuring full accountability of the AOP is cascaded down and appropriate bonuses are paid
  • Build the annual revenue AOP along with / revenue annual operating plan (AOP) alongside the commercial teams ensuring accountability is appropriately assigned
  • Support the commercial teams on decisions around effective headcount investments and resource re-deployment
  • Establish a set of meaningful KPIs and regularly challenge monthly KPI performance Review marketing initiative performance and provide challenge and suggestions towards improvements
  • Lead and manage EMEA Commercial Finance Business Partner / team, including objective setting, regular feedback and development and performance reviews
  • Subject matter expert and overall responsibility for global RFPs
  • Involvement in establishing GPO and Global Accounts reporting to measure ongoing performance
  • Work on other ad hoc tasks as required
  • Catalyst – lead change, continuous improvement, look for opportunities to constantly improve processes
  • Professional accounting qualification and /or Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Business Administration
  • Extensive experience in business/commercial finance
  • Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
  • Strong analytical skills, ability to present a business case
  • Ability to deal with complexity and isolate the essentials
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational and motivational skills
  • Ability to find workarounds in a less than perfect systems environment
  • Discipline – quality, attention to detail, focused on delivery
  • Curiosity – challenge, question, be intrigued kare
  • Strong communication skills, including an ability to effectively communicate with non-finance people
  • Is curious to understand business performance with an analytical mind able to translate this into insights for others
  • Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of customers
  • Experience of effectively leading a team
  • Experience in commercial and manufacturing finance preferred
  • Experience with SAP, Hyperion and Cognos a strong plus
  • Ability to work independently as well as in a group setting with little direction at times
  • Occasional travel can be expected with this position
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Assistant Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Preferred degree educated with professional qualification (CA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA/MBA)
  • Thorough understanding and knowledge of relevant finance tools and systems, i.e. SAP/HFM/BI/BCP
  • Ability to simplify complex situations and synthesise, communicate and present complex information
  • Insightful, comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty, pro-active, collaborative and consultative
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Effective leader of new initiatives and teams of professionals
  • Excellent communication and motivator of change
  • Proactive, persuasive and creative as the jobholder will be introducing new systems and procedures
  • Capable of analyzing financial impact of marketing strategies but also able to demonstrate the need for, and ensure implementation of, appropriate systems and controls
  • Strong team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • An ability to work with all levels of staff within the company and handle relationships with external parties
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Manage and report on aspects of Dyson product cost
  • Manage and report on provisions set against Cost of Sales
  • Conduct regular financial risk assessments of contract manufacturers
  • Value/non value add review of key processes leading to driving process improvement
  • Prepare monthly reports and analysis as part of cost of sales and Purchase Price Variance reporting scorecard or as required to support operations and decisions
  • Evaluate product non-material quotes against current costs and present to Commercial for further review/ negotiations with Contract Manufacturers (CMs)
  • Provide negotiation support to Commercial with data/ analysis/ scenario mapping
  • Understand and run analysis on non-material cost of sales to support decision making – moulding, manufacturing lean activity, contribution, labour costs, paint processing
  • Support the tender process with financial analysis in close conjunction with Commercial team
  • Liaison with Singapore, Malaysia and UK finance teams for month end close reporting
  • Manage the control environment within the risk buys, write off and rework, airfreight processes
  • Conduct and prepare any CMs related ad hoc reviews and analysis
  • Involved in annual budgeting process for cost of sales
  • Involved / take ownership of ad hoc commercial / strategic projects
  • May be required to work out of the Senai office for 1 day a week
  • MBA, Full/Part Qualified Accountant or equivalent post graduate qualification with experience in financial planning, analysis and/or strategy
  • At least 8 years of relevant work experience
  • Experience in rigorous financial analysis and comfortable with large databases
  • Excellent analytical ability and Excel spreadsheet skills
  • Ability to understand concepts and ideas quickly and model data in meaningful ways
  • Naturally Inquisitive - comfortable and willing to interrogate existing systems with large amounts of data for answers but accepts that not every query has an exact answer
  • Proactive in proposing ideas to challenge status quo
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment or engineering an advantage
  • Experience in working across functions and cultures and dealing with overseas entities
  • Excellent personal and business presentation skills, in particular the presentation of financial information to non-finance managers and directors
  • Assertive and able to influence upwards and peers
  • Good spoken & written English
  • Has strong sense of operational discipline and ability to meet deadlines
  • Tableau experience a plus
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Qualification : CIMA/ACCA/ CA having at least 10 years industry experience
  • Strong Financial Analysis, communication skills & stakeholder management skills
  • Proven people management skills
  • Excellent Microsoft Excel, power point & presentation skills
  • ERP Experience (JDE, or other system)
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Senior Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide commercial finance leadership for all O&G business/segments
  • Build and maintain relationships with banks and other financing institutions in the region; work with MENAT Commercial Finance team and EFS to arrange financing for key deals
  • Lead and drive pipeline visibility and operating rhythm with the business teams to improve deal conversion
  • Engage with channel team on channel strategy and explore options for consolidation while delivering incremental flow business & convertible orders
  • Provide financial support for commercial value proposition development for key strategic commercial projects
  • Provide leadership to cash team and drive past dues, dispute resolution and simplification of cash process across O&G businesses
  • Drive Key account operating rhythm with the country key account leadership teams – order pacing, planning cycles, reporting and closing activities
  • Drive SFDC tool utilization and quality across businesses, provide project visibility across business segments
  • Serve as key liaison on all commercial finance scope in region across all O&G businesses
  • Partner with business leader and Sales Directors to drive operating performance supporting Commercial teams during bidding and negotiations with customers
  • Drive the risk underwriting for key contracts & effectively coordinate with functions to ensure all timely approvals to secure deals
  • Assist with management reporting (regional and segment P&L’s), supporting Key Account organization with reviews, and planning sessions (SII, OP…)
  • 10 years of commercial finance experience with at least 3 years in leadership position
  • O&G sector expertise
  • Middle East experience
  • Experience in managing complex, multi-faceted projects
  • Excellent influencing and interpersonal skills, ability to work horizontally across the Finance & Business organisations
  • Strategic thinker: proven ability to anticipate and resolve issues
  • Good understanding of core revenue recognition rules as per GAAP
  • Fluency in English. French an advantage
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Preparing budget and reforecasts in conjunction with business partners for Retail and Ecommerce. Responsible for submission of the required reports, resolving queries and gaining sign-off by the European management team
  • Producing management reports and monitoring KPIs on key metrics, highlighting risks and opportunities
  • Effective cost control of all budgets and forecasts and providing stakeholders with relevant analysis
  • Business partnering closely with the Retail, Planning and Ecommerce teams
  • Control of payroll budget for all stores. Instrumental in achieving budget figures, implementation and design of new payroll models. Working closely with Retail Directors and Operations team on all payroll initiatives
  • Detailed store profitability analysis and developing action plans for poor performing stores
  • European Ecommerce business in MK launched in 2016, therefore significant opportunity to influence and develop reporting and analysis and be a key business partner for the Ecommerce Directors and VP
  • Provide ad hoc analysis to US finance and Retail teams when required
  • Listed company reporting / adhering to tight deadlines
  • Expected to challenge current processes and develop value adding analysis to support the business
  • Manage and develop a team of 3
  • CIMA/ACCA/ACA Qualified with 3+ years PQE
  • Strong commercial / business partnering experience, preferably in the retail industry
  • Management experience
  • Excellent knowledge of Excel
  • Have strong communication skills in a cross-cultural environment. Ability to communicate with Finance and Non Finance customers
  • Be a self-starter able to manage own time, priorities and drive key projects
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Ownership for developing estimates, operating plans/forecasts/reviews, Growth Playbook (3-year Plan), SII (1-year Plan)
  • Drive quarterly indirect ledger ties to work with FP&A to identify areas of leakage
  • Contribute to improving efficiencies and performance as well as providing quality financial information (e.g. report dashboard and VC/BC productivity). Actively participate with LS Operations Management to improve productivity and inventory management
  • Develop and improve financial processes: Finance reporting tools, Management reporting tools, budgeting and estimating processes, standard Production Cost set ups and analyses, Capital Investment
  • Drive consistent usage of COFE, GLA (report net), and COGNOS Business Intelligence (B.I.) tools across GE Healthcare. Develop new reports for process improvements
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration and minimum of six years of financial work experience or High School Diploma/GED and minimum of ten years financial work experience including developing forecasts & operating plans and leading business / finance reviews
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Qualified Accountant with experience in a commercial role
  • Highly competent IT and data manipulation skills, with SAP and BW experience preferred
  • Strong communication, with ability to influence and use financial information to provide insight to non-finance managers and senior directors
  • Attention to detail and accuracy
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Analytical with an established record of driving commercial insights
  • Solid experience working in a Senior Business Partner or Senior Finance Manager role in a complex commercial environment
  • Strong accounting skills and the ability to analyse and understand complex performance data
  • Proven leadership skills, with experience of leading and building a team
  • A proactive approach
  • Relevant tertiary education
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Develop and analyse monthly performance reports for each specific Business unit
  • Coordinate Monthly Demand Performance report and drive Business performance conversation at Exec Review
  • Proactively track performance versus target
  • P&L outlook projection and Strategic Plan update
  • Set Vision and roadmap for Business
  • Important insights that will drive the success of the category
  • Integrated Brand – Commercial Plan and Activity Grid. Optimise A&P investment fund through M&E (ruthless prioritisation)
  • Own S&OP results for Business – sell-in, off-take, stock
  • Build business case and lead financial analysis for Innovations projects to ensure financial viability and facilitate financial conversation for Gate Submission and Review
  • To lead the ongoing development and management of the M&E process and cross functional team’s capabilities to deliver quality M&E learnings
  • Ensure annual M&E timetable and process is signed off and communicated to cross-functional teams
  • To complete H1 and H2 M&E pre-evaluation,
  • To complete H1 and H2 post evaluation and conduct workshop to share learnings
  • To develop activity evaluation tools which are linked to ROI measurement
  • To lead development of M&E capability development for Marketing and Commercial team
  • Support channel financial performance analysis for TT and ONT channel
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Regular financial reporting and metrics; review results with Commercial team
  • Assist Branch Managers with the budget and forecast
  • On a regular basis, provide analysis for
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Senior Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • 8-10 years business experience in accounting / finance
  • Previous experience working within US Alcoholic Beverage industry strongly preferred
  • Previous supervisory/managerial experience is preferred
  • MBA is preferred
  • Experience using syndicated data (such as Nielsen or NABCA) to conduct research and data analysis to resolve complex issues is a plus
  • Good problem solver, identify problems and implement solutions
  • Attention to detail and customer service orientation are essential functions of this role
  • Strong analytical ability to conduct research, analyze and organize large quantities of data and resolve complex problems
  • Strong understanding of pricing and profitability models
  • Able to identify errors/issues and drive actionable insights from massive data sets
  • Travel 15-25%
  • Able to communicate verbally and through written correspondence and/or presentations
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Analysis and translation of data into key strategic inputs and insights to support decisions
  • Development and maintenance of trust relationships with business partners, while also providing thoughtful, candid and constructive insights into key business matters
  • The ability to work on high level ad hoc projects whilst delivering routine goals
  • Excellent business analysis skills for identifying process enhancements coupled with a clear desire to directly execute on process recommendations to expedite organisational change
  • Analysis of current and past trends in key performance indicators including revenue, cost of sales, SG&A, capital expenditures and business awards
  • Preparation of monthly executive level and quarterly board level reporting packs and presentations
  • Consolidation and reporting of multi-divisional budget, backlog and revenue forecasting
  • Preparation of market & company analysis
  • Development and maintenance of reporting packs in conjunction with the parent FP&A team
  • Ownership of the continued development of budgeting, financial forecasting, operating plan and business modeling tools
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • To lead the finance team to drive value, insight balanced by control across all aspects of Procurement
  • To lead initiatives to ensure delivery of leading performance
  • To provide high quality Business Performance Management to support the delivery of ISC Procurement financial targets
  • Manage financial planning and reporting processes (Strategic Plan, AOP, LE and O&Rs) for ISC Procurement and Assist with gap identification and resolution in order to ensure delivery of AOP and stretch targets
  • Provide commercial finance input into financial plans and business decisions
  • Support the delivery of process simplification and standardization of Procurement
  • Ensure robust finance process & CARM compliance across the ISC Procurement function To demonstrate leadership and add value to the ISC through active participation in the Procurement leadership and Finance leadership teams
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Commercial Finance Manager / Operations Resume Examples & Samples

  • Manage and co-ordinates activities to provide value added, commercially focused insights to the business
  • Degree educated with professional qualification (CA/ACCA/CIMA/CPA/MBA)
  • Relevant experience in an global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment
  • Experience dealing with external stakeholders
  • Experience in strategic analysis & planning and execution, performance metrics, project evaluation and commercial acumen,
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Project Finance Investment
  • Key focus on GE direct investments- project development, long term equity, quasi-equity
  • Develop regional processes for underwriting, funding: lead financial modeling, structuring for investments
  • Lead and coordinate deal teams for GE principal investments for SSA
  • Interface w/ SPF, Project Development, P&Ls, & function leads on transactions
  • Manage post-investment oversight (portfolio management, reporting, 100 day plans)
  • Oversight of board and shareholder fiduciary duties
  • Develop and manage equity exit/syndication process
  • Engage with external co-investors: private equity and infrastructure funds to leverage capital for GE deals
  • 12+ years
  • Demonstrated closed transactions and track record of successful investments with exits and significant board representation and board experience
  • Over 5 Years’ experience leading the execution of transactions and deal teams for principal investments
  • Experience managing / guiding team through all phases of the transaction process including strategy and market analysis, target identification and screening, structuring, valuation, due diligence, negotiation and closing
  • Deep project finance skills, Private equity, infrastructure and venture capital background
  • Developed market experience with 2+ years work experience in Africa
  • Minimum of 5 years in credit and risk analysis in a leadership role
  • Extensive network with project finance, private equity investment, and financial services
  • Community in Africa and globally
  • Strong Modeling, credit and underwriting skills required
  • Experience in developing/financing/structuring of complex multi-party infrastructure projects and
  • Experience developing and executing innovative financing programs and structures with third
  • Parties
  • Strong project management and integration skills
  • Demonstrated proven success in an entrepreneurial environment
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business, French speaking
  • Minimum of 10 years of financial work experience including developing forecasts & operating plans and leading business/finance reviews
  • Exceptional analysis skills: clearly link financial results to operational performance drivers, generate alternatives and drive positive change
  • Polished communicator: able to work effectively internally and externally with all levels of leadership
  • FMP/CAS/CLS graduate or comparable experience and/or training
  • Prior Commercial Finance Experience
  • 3+ years operations experience
  • Black Belt experience or equivalent training (GE Employees Only)
  • Exposure to power generation markets
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Build strong relationships with the category planning team based on insight and challenge to ensure finance are able to influence future decisions to drive value
  • Responsible for the monthly actual, flash and forecast financials, working closely with the sales customer finance team and other stakeholders to provide insight on revenue drivers, risks and opportunities to ensure that the quarterly and annual targets are delivered (Net Revenue, quality of revenue, promotional ROI)
  • Partner with the category finance team to help them build the annual plan for the category
  • Work with the customer planning team to continually seek to optimise our customer investment decisions through insight, modelling and identification of issues and opportunities through both pre and post evaluation of promotional activity
  • Build sales/finance team capabilities and support relevant projects, systems and processes
  • Balance sheet reporting and management of the category balance sheet
  • Specific project and analysis work to support the delivery of short and longer term category value, e.g. profit domes, JBPs, value drivers etc
  • Educated to degree level and fully qualified accountant (CIMA / ACA / ACCA)
  • Experience working within a commercial or operational finance environment, preferably within an FMCG company
  • Effective influencing and communication skills, with an ability to simplify the complex
  • Strong strategic mind set with excellent analytical skills and a logical way of thinking
  • Ability to relate to and influence a diverse group of stakeholders
  • Proactively drives and embraces change, and feels comfortable with ambiguity
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Global IS Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Contribute to strategic and commercial decisions, plans, budgeting and forecasting to help drive IS financial performance
  • Working closely with key business, commercial and finance contacts carry out detailed analysis and produce necessary reports, ensuring adherence to key internal and Sarbanes-Oxley controls, and providing financial oversight of, and reporting on all, Opex RTB
  • Assist with the challenge and review of IS financial planning ensuring their suitability for financial assessment and the strategic planning process
  • Assist with coordinating inputs to produce periodic future looking financial information and in the production of a range of financial outputs (regulatory performance, financial statements and financial ratios) based on planning scenarios and in year forecast updates with accompanying insightful analysis and value adding interpretation to set timescales for quarterly and annual reporting
  • Run, maintain, and assist with the development of global IS planning models to produce financial information for a range of scenarios and sensitivities. Provide first class quality control over modelling inputs/outputs and ensure robust version control
  • Through a thorough understanding of business levers and regulatory price control mechanisms and investment plans assist in the production of insightful information, analysis and interpretation of results for presentation to IS senior management to support the decision making process
  • Assist with the development and production of periodic regulatory performance metrics for inclusion in quarterly and annual reports
  • Work with Process Finance management teams, functional management teams and others in assessing, monitoring and reporting value realisation and benefits tracking associated with Projects and Process improvements
  • Work closely with appropriate functional management teams, acting as financial point of contact and implement value initiatives and to help the business in developing the right metrics to measure its performance and to develop an understanding of the business context associated with value opportunities and initiatives and to translate financial and non-financial information into financial business cases
  • Support the delivery of key business projects through the development of business cases, monitoring and assessing risks to support successful project delivery
  • Use financial information, coupled with an understanding of RIIO price controls, Rate Case & Regulatory constraints to evaluate, challenge and make recommendations to improve the outcomes of initiatives and performance
  • Provide robust financial acumen to support business change; ensuring that change opportunities are optimised and that data is used in a way that supports business decisions that drive value into the National Grid business
  • Provide a commercial understanding of how contracts work and to utilise contract management skills to assist the National Grid business in implementing and managing the delivery of value from its supply chain partners
  • Contribute to and support all key commercial decisions across a range of portfolios and influence plans and investment appraisals for areas of business responsibility to help drive National Grid’s long-term performance
  • Drive a CI culture to ensure ongoing development of the end to end Finance Management processes, analysing process performance issues covering safety, costs/efficiency and customer satisfaction, identifying underlying process data quality issues and putting in place corrective actions, assisting in identifying root causes of IS Financial Management performance issues and collaborating with related process review opportunities, developing, maintaining and change control of the IS Financial Management process framework
  • Produce accurate, timely and consistent month end
  • Facilitate the production of monthly management packs, including relevant variance analysis and commentary on results
  • Support relevant business stakeholders in understanding and quantifying the financial risks & opportunities for their respective areas
  • Supporting audits where required including analysing of monthly cost reports, identifying and sourcing required justification of costs
  • Ensure that the financial controls are efficient and effective
  • Strong business insight coupled with the ability to develop strong working relationships and deliver customer focussed output
  • Excellent commercial acumen and the aptitude to use contract management skills to deliver value from suppliers and other third parties
  • Proven significant experience of planning, forecasting and budgeting coupled with financial and investment appraisals
  • An ability to identity process weaknesses & use root cause analysis tools. Through coaching & training drive continuous improvement in performance
  • Experience of managing multiple stakeholders, with varying priorities
  • Possess significant experience of reporting financial information
  • Proven business partnering and IS business acumen
  • Experience in providing relevant financial data to inform commercial decisions
  • Experience of business software and applications
  • Understanding of ITIL
  • Understanding of Lean/SixSigma methodologies; able to suggest business improvements to processes and reporting to maximise impact
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provide both financial leadership and sound judgement in the formulation of strategic initiatives to strengthen and grow the Business in line with the 5 year strategy
  • As well as providing key financial guidance and insight to the commercial team they must bring a wider strategic and commercial acumen thus helping the team make informed, added value decisions
  • Challenge and influence the Commercial teams on customer and brand volume and margin assumptions
  • Develop and drive the brand and promotional strategies within the retailers
  • Challenge and develop the current process and methodologies and push for continuous improvement
  • Own and support specific cross functional strategic projects
  • Ensure all data is accurately captured in the relevant systems and on a timely basis
  • Own the delivery of the account profitability in partnership with the senior commercial team
  • Support the Finance Business Partner and Finance Controller in the development of the Finance and IBP functions within Dairy Crest
  • Provide leadership and development to other analysts in the team
  • Deeply understand business challenges, talk their language and ‘have a view&#8217
  • Build and manage multiple relationships and network productively
  • Be able to contract for mutual expectations and build solid, explicitly stated foundations
  • Provide thought leadership (technical, external, commercial opportunity, customer focus)
  • Provoke and lead change and have a bias for action
  • Influence, challenge, stand their ground with courage where necessary
  • Integrate with the teams and contribute across their agendas
  • Prioritise the biggest levers of value; be organised around strongest performance drivers
  • Hold appropriate boundaries of accountability and action
  • Keep learning, being flexible and growing
  • Ability to interact with non-financial business partners is key i.e. Sales, Marketing, Operations etc interpreting complicated commercial positions/situations in clear articulate ways
  • Ensure base data is provided on time and correct every time
  • Be able to influence upwards and be expected to interact with all levels of seniority from analyst to board members in this flat structured business
  • Provide ad-hoc analysis and decision support for the business to enable it to cope with market changes, for example business plans, customer incentive schemes as well as assessing the pricing structure of ongoing business
  • To propose and challenge changes to the annual terms offered to customers, which encourages growth and increased profitability in the account
  • Provide financial direction and support to ensure the business grows in line with 5 year strategy
  • Ensure that all promotional activity in the accounts is justified, either financially or commercially, and is aligned with brand strategies
  • Developing controls and procedures to ensure that all key issues are identified, communicated and captured in all the appropriate systems
  • Supporting the finance team in presenting timely and accurate information to other areas of the business
  • Help coach, train and motivate team to ensure that their work is varied and relevant to aid their development
  • Provide cover for line manager
  • Be commercially aware and possess strong numerical skills with a keen desire to question and challenge information to ensure high reliability
  • Be aware of importance of internal controls/committed to improving controls. Able to explain numbers in context of changes in environment
  • Ability to work well in a team environment and with people from variety of disciplines and seniority. Also able of working on own initiative with a minimum of supervision
  • Capable of working and delivering results under time pressure
  • Advanced Excel skills would be a necessity including Lookup tables, ‘if’ statements, graph manipulation
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Partner with Regional Managing Directors in up to 3 national locations to set challenging business targets and monitor performance against them
  • Proposing corrective action to optimise performance, when there may be conflicting agendas
  • Create and present insightful performance analysis for Regional and National Executive committees
  • Support commercial decision making and investment appraisal
  • Be the main point of contact for each Regional Office on all Finance matters and work with relevant production teams to resolve any issues
  • Work closely with the 1825 Commercial & Strategy team on potential acquisitions
  • Take the lead on integrating the Finance functions of new acquisitions into the 1825
  • Confident in influencing and challenging stakeholders at various levels
  • Regular travel essential
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Assist in leading and defining pricing strategy
  • Provide accurate and timely analysis and reporting for pricing, invoice management, and financial controls
  • Collaborate with state managers to ensure that the division meets its financial objectives
  • Execute price increases for brands as defined by Napa Finance for the division
  • Partner with the Commercial Finance Analyst and the Napa division Financial Analyst to ensure that all open invoice exceptions for the divisions are managed and resolved timely
  • Manage tracking and reporting of advertising and promotion (A&P) spend and SG&A costs on a monthly basis for the division
  • Partner with State Sales Managers to ensure that CPRs (Competitor Pricing Reports) are completed on a monthly basis
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Assistant Commercial Finance Manager Operations Resume Examples & Samples

  • Liaise with Direct Procurement, Ops Master data, Quality department, Regional Product champions, Marketing, Leaf & Wrapping material(WMS) Planning and Supply Chain Logistics to determine the costs for wrapping materials, leaf and other supply chain costs for the Company plan, Quarterly Profit Revisions [QPRs], New Product Introductions (NPI) costing and ad hoc costing requests. Transfer pricing: assist with determining transfer prices for export BAT South Africa’s export markets. Resolving any issues/queries on transfer pricing
  • SAP standard costing owner. Perform standard costing. Resolving any issues/queries on standard pricing
  • Extract from SAP, analyse and prepare foreign and local currency cash flow statements for tobacco and wrapping material purchases, to be used for Treasury Committee hedging meetings
  • An undergraduate degree with Accounting would be required (i.e. M+3)
  • A minimum of 4 years relevant financial experience
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to manage relationships across all levels within the company and externally
  • Able to analyse and solve problems quickly and efficiently
  • A commercial approach to activities
  • An effective promoter of new initiatives
  • A high level of attention to detail
  • Ability to prioritise and work to strict deadlines
  • Excellent excel skills
  • High level of drive and commitment
  • Qualified accountant (CA/CIMA/ACCA)
  • 2 years plus experience in an Operations/Manufacturing Finance environment
  • Detailed working experience of the FI, MM modules in SAP
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Drive daily/weekly/monthly sales performance analysis and reviews, identify actions to course correct the business and maximize results
  • In close partnership with the Marketing organization, Merchandising team and the Finance Marketing Manager, develop campaigns and promotional activity that optimise customer lifetime value and maximize short term financial output
  • Work in deep collaboration with the Goods Finance Controller and FD supporting forecasting activities, month-end, quarter-end and year-end close
  • Pre-purchase deal qualification and approval, including all aspects beyond price, such as fulfilment costs, refunds, activation value, traffic value, etc…
  • Cross-functional collaboration to improve customer refunds
  • Solid commercial finance background preferably with experience in Retail, e-Commerce, Marketing and Sales Operations
  • 7+ years relevant experience with a track record of growing within a company
  • Able to assess multiple business and financial factors to make quick and difficult judgment calls
  • Experience in developing models to drive business & profitability growth
  • Strong knowledge of business concepts including retail, inventory control and price-to-market
  • Problem solving & analysis skills, commitment & action oriented
  • Ability to manage and develop relationships effectively between key stakeholders
  • Strong line management capability to challenge, inspire and support others
  • Evidence of strategic thinking and innovation
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Assistant Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of trade/brand expenditure using practical financial analysis tools developed either locally or by the Centre
  • To ensure that the pre-evaluation and post implementation review of all launches and other key initiatives are done
  • To provide brand marketing management with relevant financial analysis and information on aspects such as
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Assistant Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • To analyse different Pricing and Excise Scenarios, calculation of the financial impact
  • To co-ordinate the preparation of the trade/brand marketing budget/plan
  • To provide Marketing Finance support in forecasting and planning process
  • To provide Marketing Finance support to end markets
  • To provide meaningful, timely information to the different departments and to the Region to facilitate effective decision making aimed at optimising profitability
  • Build financial capabilities of marketing and trade team, and build commercial awareness in Finance
  • Continuously look for and capitalise business opportunities of self-development in functional and leadership skills
  • Continuously maintain and improve internal business relationships within the function and cross functional by sharing experience and knowledge and contribute to the strategic thinking processes
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Provides commercial support to complex / transformational deals within the Wholesale business
  • Creates pricing / deal construct frameworks that can be used by the products and commercial unit for Wholesale to manage standard / multi product line deals
  • Creates ideas and commercial interventions that meet / exceed financial targets
  • Delivers financial and commercial decision-making that supports sustainable profitable growth
  • Develops financial and commercial insight to support pricing propositions and new service bundles to meet customers’ needs by building clear business cases
  • Updates product models on a monthly basis to ensure fit for purpose
  • Manages the post deal review process for standard deals and multi product line deals
  • Drives commercial financial analysis and insight
  • Recognised best practise methodologies for identifying and qualifying commercial interventions
  • Challenges commercial propositions to drive top line growth
  • Supports and challenges key internal stakeholders, the ability to challenge the status quo and provide value-add insight
  • Strong commercial awareness
  • Makes decisions and exercises own judgement well
  • Ability to work on multiple projects to tight timescales
  • Must be reactive (in response to bids) and proactive to drive the sales teams
  • Ability to generate new ideas and drive forward independently
  • Proven experience of complex commercial support including pricing and bids
  • Senior stakeholder management experience
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • BA/BS degree in business or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 1 - 3 years of finance experience preferred within a fast moving consumer goods environment
  • Excellent computer skills required
  • Working knowledge of SAP and Sapphire preferred
  • Knowledge of the spirits/ wine industry preferred
  • Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook)
  • Must be at least 21 years of age
  • Ability to manage multiple projects/priorities on tight deadlines and maintain high level of quality output
  • Ability to understand and manage budgets, profitability, and expenses
  • Ability to communicate enthusiasm for the product and category
  • Ability to work with all levels of employees throughout division
  • Ability to work independently and function as a self-starter with, at times, minimal supervision
  • Excellent customer service, interpersonal, and verbal and written communication skills
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Using analytical experience and awareness of current accounting standards to efficiently collate, validate, understand, analyse and present the costs and assumptions underpinning the financial models. This will require engagement with various Sopra Steria teams including, but not limited to, solutions, technical, procurement, delivery, sales, risk, commercial, legal, finance, tax, and client account management
  • Performing adequate checks on the accuracy and completeness of financial models
  • Preparing and presenting alternative commercial options and scenarios
  • Where required from time to time, supporting dialogue with suppliers and clients
  • Supporting the Sopra Steria contract development and legal teams with financial information relevant to the project
  • Supporting colleagues in the Commercial Finance Team during their holiday periods and with deadlines on other projects within the Team
  • Assisting with the Sopra Steria project governance process - providing supporting material and responding to actions where required
  • Engaging and communicating regularly with key stakeholders including the Commercial Development Director
  • Formal accountancy qualification (e.g. ACA; ACCA or CIMA)
  • Accountancy and/or audit employment background
  • Awareness of current accounting standards and principles
  • Advanced numeracy, including ability to model scenarios and sensitivities
  • Exceptional verbal and written presentation and communication skills
  • Responding positively to tight deadlines, working additional hours where necessary to meet requirements to a high standard
  • Experience of working on projects in a financial capacity
  • Experience of working for clients (internal or external)
  • Eligibility for SC clearance
  • Awareness of IT/BPO projects and services
  • Experience of working directly with or for external clients and their advisors
  • Experience of a corporate finance project environment with an accountancy practice employer
  • Experience of working within large projects
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Commercial Finance Manager NGP Resume Examples & Samples

  • Learn about and help influence the shape of NGP,
  • Apply skills and tools in a rapidly changing environment,
  • Prepare Coplan budgets with R&D, Operations and Marketing Community
  • Provide ad-hoc analysis to Commercial Finance Controller such as participating in project initiatives, finance training, management board presentations etc
  • 3+ years of experience in a global FMCG or similar dynamic operating environment
  • Experience in analysis & planning and execution, performance metrics and commercial acumen
  • Ability to simplify complex situations and synthesize and present complex information
  • Knowledge of SAP/HFM/BI/BCP an advantage
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Commercial Finance Manager Chile Resume Examples & Samples

  • Key stakeholders for the role are: Chile Commercial Manager, Distributor Commercial Managers, PEBAC Head of Finance, BSS Controller, Global Treasury and Taxes team
  • The role has 3 direct reports and dot line with BSS Controllership team for Chile
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Industrial Engineer, Economy or similar
  • Minimum 3 years of Finance Manager or Commercial Finance Manager
  • Fluent in English is a must
  • Great business partnering
  • Accuracy and attention to details
  • Displays innovation and imagination in both financial and commercial settings
  • Passionate about making a difference. Energizes others through own commitment
  • Be open to feedback and challenge from others
  • Excellent knowledge of Excel and SAP. BFC
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Manage the monthly forecast and annual planning process for the Business Unit
  • Coordination of the planning processes for respective segments
  • Manage end to end P&L and Balance Sheet forecasting / planning including Sales, Revenue, Expense, CAPEX and FTE
  • Proactively identify and manage R&O
  • Document, assess, and review all major assumptions underpinning the Business Unit financial plan
  • Coordinate and prepare Plan and forecasts presentation and variance analysis
  • Analysis of financial results for the Business Unit
  • Review financial results and work with the Business Unit to analyse key variances to plan and forecast
  • Communicate financial results, key drivers and emerging issues to TRTA ANZ management and recommend follow up actions
  • Month end variance commentary for inclusion in TR Segment corporate reporting and ANZ Senior Executive reporting
  • Assess impact of results on financial forecasts going forward
  • Assist in determining opportunities to optimize financial results going forward
  • Identifying and reporting key metrics for management reporting
  • Provide financial support and advice
  • Provide financial planning and analysis support to senior Business Unit management and other managers as requested including
  • Add value to commercial management in determining strategies for achievement of Plan numbers for the current year and beyond - includes analysis on pricing, customer segmentation, sales and marketing strategies
  • Providing clear business and financial instructions/ guidance to Business Units managers
  • Drive Planning and Forecasting process for respective product segments
  • Provide Margin and product profitability analysis
  • Develop appropriate KPI’s and metrics to measure the business performance
  • Assisting business units with specific reporting needs and special projects as required
  • Ad hoc requests from the wider Finance, business and corporate teams, including fulfilment of corporate information requests including BU applicable customer/product data
  • Business Investment Support
  • Preparation and presentation of business case models for organic investment opportunities. Involves collaboration with the commercial team on revenue opportunities and cost implications, and presentations to the internal Investment Committee
  • Scenario modelling and analysis to support Business Unit revenue & cost opportunities
  • Staff Management
  • Proactively manage staff performance including setting goals, coaching etc
  • Degree in Accounting or Finance (required) and
  • CA/CPA (or equivalent) (ideal)
  • Commercial exposure to complex matrix environnement in large Multinational Organisation
  • Finance business partnering
  • Knowledge of recurring revenue model preferred but not essential
  • Advanced Excel financial modelling skills
  • Highly analytical
  • High aptitude with Hyperion preferred
  • Strong interpersonnel skills, able to build and maintain collaborative relationships
  • Self starter and able to work independently
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Commercial support: working with commercial leaders (and teams) to provide insight and support commercial decision making, particularly optimising risks and opportunities to drive long term profitable revenue growth and maximise shareholder value. Including regular business reviews and ad hoc ‘deep dives’. Collaberation on developing future propositions – ensuring they are developed in a profitable manner, underpinning the corporate strategy
  • Revenue and gross margin forecasting: ensuring accurate forecasting across the VOIP & Switch portfolio. Both in year budgeting and medium term strategy planning with subsequent detailed insight to understand P&L risks and opportunities to enable commercial delivery of the P&L
  • Ensuring an efficient month end: accurate and timely closure of revenue and gross margin results against budget, forecast and outlook. Undertake rigorous investigations and take ownership for resolution of issues. Feeding effectively into wider corporate P&L reporting (and other channels where applicable). Maintaining strong relationships with FC and wider finance teams. Strong working capital management
  • Develop and improve key business processes: including review and control, so that assets and revenues are safeguarded. Ensuring that processes are robust, efficient and scalable to support future business growth. Working with operational leaders to ensure best practice is adopted and maintained
  • Product and customer profitability: being the ‘expert’ in VOIP & Switch product economics. Analysing product profitability, implementation times and deal pipeline to drive P&L optimisation as look to capture market share across IP Voice. Ensuring lifetime customer value is maximised
  • Challenging the cost base: assurance that costs are appropriate and are aligned to customer revenues. Including intra-BT changes (i.e. Openreach), 3rd party equipment and internal project management / delivery. Working with Business Improvement and Transformation teams to drive out costs from the business
  • Customer operations support: working with customer operations and experience leaders (and teams) to maximise customer satisfaction to build long term growth and revenue uplift opportunities
  • Qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
  • Strong strategic and commercial initiative to manage commercial risks and opportunities to drive the P&L
  • Tenacious business partnering experience with product, commercial and sales, hence requiring excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Highly accurate budgeting and forecasting
  • Strong excel skills with scenario modelling and business case experience
  • Month end management of P&L and balance sheet
  • Ability to use Hyperion beneficial
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Must have strong computer skills: including but not limited to use of BI & CRM software, model building, Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint. SAP & Sales force experience a plus
  • Candidate should have 10+ years’ experience and a strong knowledge of Global Commercial Finance and Operations
  • Ability to work closely with commercial functions and demonstrate results delivery through those relationships
  • Ability to interact, challenge and communicate effectively with team members at all levels within the organization
  • Leadership, project management, analytical and excellent communication skills (oral& written) are required
  • High energy - needs to be a pace setter
  • Analytical - comfortable turning lots of data into concise executive summaries that help drive actions, behavior and performance, with strong emphasis on model building
  • Relationship builder - business parnter to comm OPS (Sales & Marketing)
  • Strong communication skills - can tell commercial story effectively and concise
  • Process orientation / can drive simplification - need someone who can build simple, efficient, repeatable reporting
  • Systems orientation - can handle with new and developing tools and help us build new infrastructure for future
  • Detail oriented/accurate - establishes and maintains credibility of numbers
  • Acts with a sense of urgency / high impact person
  • Lead, develop and communicate the build ups for the Annual Budget, Forecast Updates and Strat Plans with the Commercial Team
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Identify major cost optimization opportunities to be identified as key priorities
  • Ensure that the efforts are focused on the major cost optimization opportunities and work cross functional to progress key priorities
  • Manage and report on key aspects of Dyson product cost with senior leadership as audience
  • Conduct regular financial risk assessments in supply chain and product cost
  • Understand and implement FX considerations when negotiating product cost
  • Provide negotiation support to Procurement with data/ analysis/ scenario mapping
  • Understand and run analysis on material cost to support critical thinking and decision making
  • Oversee the cost opportunity tracker to make sure that reports are accurate
  • Involved in annual budgeting process
  • Project management experience
  • Excellent analytical ability and Excel spread sheet skills
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Commercial Finance Manager Seychelles Resume Examples & Samples

  • Bachelor degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics is the minimum
  • CIMA, ACCA or CPA Qualified
  • Well-developed skills in systems utilisation (ideally SAP, BFC planning or ERP, or any similar environment) and Excel, particularly in data query and interpretation
  • Budgetary & cost control management
  • Able to take on ownership and responsibility for problem resolution
  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in a FMCG including at least two years of decision support / BPM experience
  • Responsible for preparing monthly Business Performance Packs for PMIO and local use with great insights on variances Vs plan and previous years
  • In charge of the end to end annual planning process namely preparation of Annual Operating Plan, monthly rolling FY forecast for the P&L (except COGS), balance sheet and cash flow (except capex and stock), as well as strategic planning, fully leveraging the system
  • Responsible for measurement and evaluation (M&E) of A&P / trade investments (pre and post) using the 80/20 principle, supporting the commercial team to drive value creation (ROI and equity growth)
  • Responsible for preparing innovation financials for the different Gates in the Navigate process, ensuring that innovation projects have the right Payback and NPV, as well as serve as the Finance Business Partner throughout the project life
  • Provide decision support to all other demand functions on routine cross-functional corporate change projects (such as HR Reward projects, Org redesign financials, etc.) as well as ad hoc analyses (such as impact of new Finance Law, RTM projects, PBB, etc.)
  • Working with Commercial team on value chain review, annual trade term review and pricing analyses to optimize brand / customer profitability as well as competitive consumer pricing. Focus on annual spirits pricing review for compliance with ICSP / GMP target
  • Provide Finance Support in the S&OP process, driving rigor in the demand planning process and consensus meeting and converting these into robust R&O sans action plan to improve / protect NSV, OP and OCC for the BPM process
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Excellent collaboration, verbal and written communication skills
  • Advanced analytical, organization, and interpersonal skills
  • Advanced spreadsheet and modelling skills
  • Able to break down problems into meaningful parts and come to rational and well-thought out conclusions
  • Interested in process improvement
  • Willing to adapt quickly to changes in direction
  • Internally motivated to seek out answers, generate ideas, and develop new skills
  • Consistently demonstrate high standards of integrity by supporting eNett’s core values
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Strong decision support lead to Commercial and Marketing Directors
  • Providing expert financial support to maximize value from our Innovation pipeline
  • Support the development of new businesses, proactively contributing to the growth of the business. Lead decision support in the area of major business development and strategic initiatives
  • Evaluation of pre and post A&P / trade marketing spend to shape effective decisions
  • Pricing and value chain analysis and recommendations
  • Building decision support capability in Commercial Finance to ensure all key decisions are properly supported locally by quality financial analysis to drive value maximization
  • First Degree in relevant field with at least 7 years post qualification decision support and business development experience in FMCG environment
  • Membership of recognized accountancy body (CPA, CIMA, ACCA etc) will be added advantage
  • Broader demand finance experience is an advantage
  • Proven ability to facilitate, persuade, influence and build credibility with all levels and all functions
  • High analytical, interpretative and decision-making skills. Ability to distill complex data/problems into simple models and solutions
  • Commercial Awareness
  • Excellent coaching and relationship building skills
  • Strong team leadership skill
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Review and approve output of financial models to incorporate into business plan, rolling estimate, and/or other models
  • Review and approve completed analysis that requires application of financial concepts and/or tools (e.g., NPV, IRR, Discounted Cash Flow, statistical analyses, economic analyses, line item walkforwards, and volume building blocks)
  • Conduct Financial Statement Analysis of business partners (e.g., suppliers, bottlers, customers, co-packers, acquisition targets, bottlers) using software systems (Internet, Bloomberg, and D&B), annual reports, and/or interviews with senior executives at the business partner
  • Collect, validate, analyze and explain submitted rolling estimate information. This includes variance analysis against appropriate base comparisons (e.g. prior year, prior rolling estimate, BP, target)
  • Provide direct reports with leadership, direction, and coaching to achieve work objectives and improve performance and skills
  • Determine financial attractiveness of new growth areas by utilizing value chain and P&L analyses in order to prioritize allocation of resources to these opportunities
  • Provide rolling estimates (RE) for each Customer (e.g., service, equipment & capital expenses) and participate in account team Performance Management Process (PM2) in order to manage overall performance
  • Generate sales forecasts by entering new product demand information into planning software in order to deliver accurate concentrate and material requirements to manufacturing, purchasing or scheduling operations
  • Draft term sheets for contract negotiations
  • Prepare and review performance updates for team Performance Management (PM2), Bottler Cold Drink Steering Committee and variance analysis meetings in order to identify variances from plan and determine adjustments for delivering business commitments
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Identifying and challenging internal customer requirements to build a service which enhances effective delivery of site performance
  • Continuously review existing business practices to identify and implement changes which deliver greater cost efficiency, whilst acting as a guardian of truth for standard setting and master data
  • Create site P&L budget/quarterly forecasts, demonstrating an understanding of the key drivers, to inform local operational and strategic decision making
  • Continuously review business practices and make recommendations for changes which will enhance cost efficiency
  • Providing strong leadership and direction to the assistant financial analysts, ensuring they are always engaged, focused, developed and delivering their potential
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • Manage DME (Marketing expenses) investment and perform DME evaluation to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Initiate a better way of working between KO Finance and Bottler Finance
  • Drive system profitability and develop an analysis of system economics by using SET tool. Work closely with commercial teams and bottler finance teams for short term and long term projections supporting SBP and EBP routine
  • Manage and provide financial support related to Bottler’s financial parts Including value chain, transfer price, financial decks, audit process, quarterly performance analysis, etc
  • Analyse FOC (customer discount) investment and identify risk / opportunities
  • Perform CPA (Customer Price Analysis) to analyse trade term by customers Trade Term and evaluate risks and opportunities
  • Support on ad-hoc
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Commercial Finance Manager Resume Examples & Samples

  • To become a key business partner across the major fixed sectors within the Wholesale division of W&V
  • Delivering financial and commercial decision-making that supports sustainable profitable growth in the short, medium and long terms
  • Providing strategic and financial analysis in order to construct and shape commercial propositions and complex bids
  • The successful candidate will influence and drive change across the sector working alongside and business partnering the sales and contract leads to deliver business strategy
  • Developing initiatives to improve customer service and drive cost transformation
  • Drive commercial financial analysis and insight to support commercial bids
  • Become first point of contact for commercial, sales and contract teams by business partnering sectors
  • Financial & commercial evaluation of major strategic investments
  • Challenge commercial propositions to drive top and bottom line growth
  • Develop financial and commercial insight to support pricing propositions and new service bundles to meet customers’ needs by building clear business cases
  • Support and challenge key internal stakeholders including Sales Directors and CFO
  • Provide Commercial and Financial leadership that materially improves the sustainable profitability of the business
  • Degree level and a fully qualified accountant (eg CIMA, ACCA or ACA)
  • Extensive PQE experience
  • Proven ability to influence and manage stakeholders
  • Commercial acumen/awareness with an ability to identify opportunities
  • Full P&L Management experience