Sales Finance 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.

General

Develop Profitability Analysis, including the CPM maintenance and reporting;

Dominate the customer profitability, using tools like Value Chain as well the deep dives per customer;

Leeds analysis in all customer’s investment (Temporary and Permanent);

Ownership of the Financial Tools (BI & CPM) of the company, being the Key user;

Ensure the Controlling Guideline Compliance;

Accurate planning;

Plan realistic figures;

Follow – up on risks and opportunities;

Budget transparency;

Distribute Financial information on time a with high quality to contribute with the decision making of the company.

Month End Closing

Anticipate and analysis the CPM figures and the customer profitability;

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

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

Prepares and analyses the P&L per customer;

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

Create the proper forums to discuss and review with all the sales team, the customer profitability (Sales customers);

Continuous follow up in the permanent and temporary investments that Red Bull makes in each customer;

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;

Assures that all the systems are ready and on time for the planning process: BI, CPM;

In each planning cycle (FRE, SRE and BP), supports the sales teams in the Value Chain preparation, including the analysis of the main deviation in each customer;

Brings a detailed analysis for the main changes in the VC YoY;

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.

Business Partner

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

Understand the priorities of sales Areas to contribute with financial information that support the decision making;

Key user of BI and CPM;

Develop the finance sensibility across the sales team;

Bring solutions to all problems detected within the budget owners;

Controlling guideline follow – up;

Business advisor for maximization of resources usage;

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

Qualifications

Graduation Business Administration, Economics or related areas.

At least 4 years’ experience at sales planning or sales controlling in consumer goods companies .

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

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

Advanced level of English.

Excellent finance sense

Good commercial business understanding / knowledge.

Highly analytical and very skilled individual around profitability analysis

Teamwork

Good communication and presentation skills. Capable of communicating precisely and effectively with internal stakeholders,

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.