Expired 3 months ago
Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst
full-time
| Managerial
Lagos
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Job Summary
The FP&A Analyst will support the finance team.
Job Details
- 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
About Company
Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited
Just like Nigeria, the entity SevenUp Bottling Company was conceived in 1959 by a great visionary named Mohammed El-Khalil and began operations as a soft drink bottling company. As a company, we have since achieved great success in the soft drink and bottling industries since beginning operations on October 1st of, 1960. As one of the longest-standing businesses in Nigeria, we have proudly contributed to job creation and partnered with many Nigerian suppliers and establishments. We also currently have nine plants across the country. SBC has a wide offering of sugar-sweetened and sugar-free non-alcoholic beverages. We can also boast of having Nigerian favourites like Pepsi, Seven-Up, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, and Teem in several variants and line extensions in our portfolio. Our history also contains iconic marketing campaigns such as ‘Fido Dido,’ ‘The Three Orange Men,’ and ‘The Pepsi Long Throat’ campaign. We are fueled by the need to ‘refresh and inspire a youthful lifestyle’ and our mission is guided by principles like hard work, determination, integrity, honesty, sustainability, fun, and refreshment. That’s why our brands champion and complement the music scene, sports, and the all-around ‘good life.’