Regional FP&A Finance Manager

• 5 years experience in business controlling and/or finance - LIQUOR / FMCG industry.
• Relevant degree qualification, English fluent, French is advantageous
• Strong financial planning and analysis skills.
• Experience in generating process documentation and reports.
• Good business understanding, interested in sales and marketing.
• Strong knowledge of Excel (macro, programming), PowerPoint, multi-dimensional tools (ESSBASE, EOS, Microsoft database type) are necessary.
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Integrity and rigor are a must, as well as pro activity and team spirit.
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation
• Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Comfort with ambiguous, ever-changing situations

• Prepare ACTUAL monthly reports - Revenue, Variance, Mid-Month, Month End forecasting.
• Coordinate business reporting (monthly shipments/depletions/stock tracking)
• Develop, maintain accurate & user-friendly performance tracking tools (Power BI and others)
• Aggregate reporting & insights to identify risks & opportunities vs forecast.
• Coordinate efficient information flow & coordinate customer risk queries
• Partner with FD in preparing Business Reviews and adhoc analysis.

• Lead financial forecast processes
• Build LE/Budget/R&O forecasts for Regional Office
• Support Regional Team in a five year plan update and Brand Planning.

• Consolidate monthly reporting files to analyse Actual vs Forecast
• Coordinate the tracking to ensure efficient process across European marke
• Follow up Regional A&P budgets vs Actual, prepare monthly and end of year accruals
• Perform audit on invoices received (reality check) and keep record of justification.
• Manage Risk & opportunity to monitor FY landing estimate versus budget/

• Lead forecast processes for European regional office and SA market
• Build and consolidate monthly reporting files to analyse forecasts
• Lead monthly, quarterly and annual reporting providing monthly follow-up
• Prepare monthly & end of year accruals for Regional office and Company.

• Manage Price list update process to ensure efficiency and control, monitoring price impacts and gap versus budget/
• Lead price lists continuous improvement to drive consistency across Region
• Maintain prices accuracy in the central price list and in the Distributor platform database

• Develop dynamic ways to visualize big data sets to empower Management for effective decision taking (with various tools such as Power BI etc.)
• Improve ways of working on existing internal reports to gain efficiency.

• Support the team to create pertinent presentation for Senior Executive meetings
• Ad-hoc analysis of business results for different stakeholders
• Be a business partner of the new projects/key topics driven in Europe providing the team with new ideas, new technical solutions and concretize the analysis to achieve the business objective.

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