Finance Planning Specialist

Company Description

The finance team has one clear goal: keeping Red Bull in financial balance. In order to achieve this goal, the team has experts in the areas of accounting, taxes, controlling, compliance, treasury, strategy and merger & acquisitions.

Job Description

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

To be a business partner of the different areas of the company, ensure the Controlling Guideline Compliance, distribute financial information, and guarantee the understanding and comprehension of all users to generate efficiency in controlling, accuracy, realistic planning, and commitment with budget owners, contributing to make more profitability the company.

Month End Closing

Ensure the quality of the information and the Controlling Guideline Compliance,

Anticipate and analysis the MEC figures with the budget owners;

Share information to each budget owner;

Make presentations and reports of MEC, analyzing the variance of Plan vs Actual,

Step ahead of any difference on MEC.

Reporting

Continues training to ensure the comprehension of the financial information of each budget owner;

Prepares and distributes BI and Local reports according with the requirements of each budget owner;

Establish routines to discuss the variance of the Actual figures vs Plan;

Establish Profitability reports and discuss the information with the different areas.

Support areas to maintain a reasonable level of budget ownership;

Give transparency to the financial information;

Jointly with the budget owner, give solutions to budget problems.

Planning & Forecast

Coordinate all the areas during Plan Periods including Business Plan, to guarantee the submission and quality of the information in the different business tools according with key priorities of the company and with the Controlling Guideline Compliance;

Continues training in the Planning tools to the budget owners;

Involve the different budget owners on the planning process;

Assure the quality of the figures planned

Follow – up on any findings or any disagreement with budget owners;

Assure the timing of planning

Key user of BI, Hyperion, BPTool, SAP

Business Partner

Understand the priorities of each Area to contribute with financial information that support the decision making;

Control the KPIs for each area;

Develop the finance sensibility across the organization;

Bring solutions to all problems detected within the budget owners;

Work jointly with commercial team to understand customer trade terms, their budget and customers profitability;

Work jointly with the marketing team on budget control for all events;

Propose and look for savings within the budgets and efficiencies;

Avoid over expending;

Controlling guideline follow – up;

Business advisor for maximization of resources usage.

Qualifications

Graduation Business Administration, Economics, Accounting, Enineering or related areas.

At least 4 years’ experience in Financial Planning in consummer goods companies.

Knowledge with integrate system (ERPs, Planning System, Business intelligence etc)

Excellent /Advanced Office Package Excel (mandatory), Word and Power Point;

Advanced level of English;

Excellent finance sense

Highly analytical and very skilled individual around profitability analysis

Ability to quickly identify and analyze risks & impacts and able to define alternatives.

Teamwork

A structured and well-organized individual.

Additional Information

We believe in the potential of everyone to give wiiings to people and ideas, regardless of gender expression, race, religion, affective-sexual orientation, origin, age and disability. In the world of Red Bull, everyone is welcome.