Commercial Finance Assistant Manager

The Customer Finance Manager - Zone is responsible for leading customer/zone performance, promotions and trade terms and ensuring compliance and controls are applied and embedded at all times. He/She needs to fulfill the role of a co-pilot to the Zone Managers, providing strong business partnership support and together, drive and execute Customer / Zone business strategies. He/She must bring his/her commercial and financial skills and experience into the strategy development process to ensure that the plans are relevant yet challenging

• Lead customer / zone team performance agenda. Understands key drivers and leads action to improve financial performance at Customer level across brands, investments (both promotional and A&P-sales) and growth building blocks.

Visibly leads value creation and brings multi-functional team together to deliver on opportunities identified and goals

• Leverages

deep understanding of retailer / distributor to help secure disproportionate support from our customers (business strategy, shoppers, profitability, company growth, key leaders, innovation, supports deployment of JBP). Support customer/zone strategy, segmentation and profitability targets. Helps define how we will play to win and propose appropriate investment allocation.

• Drivestrade spend efficiency - trade terms governance, benchmarking investment levels across customer teams, budget controls and Trade Spent ROI framework includingpost launch learnings with actions to improve Financial delivery. Drives ROI mindset.

Governs delivery of Trade Spend optimisation targets.

Leverages or launches technology and tools - Customer Scorecarding, Customer and Retailer P&Ls, Trade Promotions Management tool (Lexia) and Trade Promotion Optimisation (Tableau) Continuously seeks best-in-class internally and externally as benchmarks to reapply, then actively use technology to create analytics, simplify and shorten leadtimes

• Drives ROI mindset and builds capability of multi-functional team on financial acumen

Co-own customer agreements and Trade spend accruals.

• Leverage external / market info

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Additional leave

Company Christmas gift

• Company events

Employee discount

• Flexible schedule

Flextime

• Health insurance

Life insurance

• Opportunities for promotion

Paid training

• Pay raise

Promotion to permanent employee

• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• 13th month salary

Bonus pay

• Performance bonus

Experience:

* Business Partnering: 6 years (Required)