Job Description:
The Senior Sales Finance Manager works closely with finance and cross-functional teams to drive business performance through financial planning, forecasting, trade expense management, and commercial analysis. This role provides financial insights and supports decision making to help achieve business growth objectives.
Key Responsibilities
1.Lead Trade expenditure and NSV (Net Sales Value) forecasting and performance tracking for business reviews and management meetings.
2.Lead period-end Trade expenditure and NSV closing processes, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of financial information; and conduct variance analysis versus Target, and Prior Year.
3.Support Trade expenditure and NSV planning, budgeting, and target setting in collaboration with finance BPs and cross-functional stakeholders.
4.Partner with finance BPs and cross-functional stakeholders to improve forecast accuracy and identify risk &opportunities.
5.Support ad-hoc financial analysis and reporting to address evolving business needs
Requirements
1.Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related disciplines.
2.7+ years of experience in FP&A, Sales/Commercial Finance or related finance areas.
3.Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable business insights.
4.Experience in forecasting, budgeting, performance analysis, and financial reporting.
5.Advanced Excel skills, AI empowered analytic skills, knowledge of SAP, Power BI, or other financial systems will be a plus.
6.Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
7.FMCG or multinational company experience is preferred.
8.Fluent in English and Chinese.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related discipline
- 7+ years of experience in FP&A, sales/commercial finance, or related finance areas
- Strong analytical skills and ability to translate data into actionable business insights
- Experience in forecasting, budgeting, performance analysis, and financial reporting
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- FMCG or multinational company experience
- Fluency in English and Chinese
- AI-enabled analytical skills
- Knowledge of SAP, Power BI, or other financial systems
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
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