Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 3 years
- Location Lagos
- Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
Job Description
- Seven-Up Bottling Company is currently recruiting for an FP&A analyst who will support the finance team.
Responsibilities
- Build financial reports that communicate consolidated and practice-level performance and analyse underlying trends across the regions.
- Prepare presentations in support of board and shareholder meetings, monthly/quarterly senior leadership meetings and various strategic committees of the company
- Prepare and present variance analysis that compares historical performance and forecasted budget with actual results
- Assist with month-end close processes liaising with accounting to assemble accurate financials for management reporting
- Partner with Business Intelligence team to create customized financial reports on dashboard systems to monitor business activities, develop operational benchmarks and automate manual processes
- Evaluate and forecast the financial viability and financial impact of expansion opportunities and new initiatives.
- Partner with Information Technology professionals to enable implementation of reporting systems and processes across Finance
- Act as a finance business partner and subject matter expert across the business
- Support the Commercial Team to ensure that their strategies lead to Net Sales Revenue and GP growth through the business planning and forecasting processes.
- Provide analytical support in the evaluation of all commercial initiatives in terms of product launches, pricing promotional activities, and direct marketing expenditure.
- Support to drive initiatives in order to improve Gross Profit (Pricing, Promo optimization, Mix optimization, product profitability).
- Prepare in-depth and insightful financial analysis and decision support to the sales and category team including identification of opportunities and risks with commentaries/analytics.
- Evaluation and monitoring of trade discounts Incentive proposals/programs to drive promotional effectiveness/profitability.
- Provision of robust analysis and insight into pack profitability and portfolio management and preparation of value chain analysis for existing and potential products.
Requirements
- 3yrs+ experience in financial planning and analysis department.
- Familiarity with Excel.
- Good understanding of systems and core accounting concepts.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Minimum of Bachelors in Finance, Accounting, or related fields.
- Membership of Chartered Accountant (ICAN or a similar professional body) is an
- added advantage
- Good command of spreadsheets and Excel Functions, Formulas, Pivot Tables.
- Data Analysis
- Experience working with sizeable ERPs like Dynamics NAV, SAP.
- Continuous learning mindset
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