Commercial Finance Analyst (contract)

What makes this a great opportunity?

Role Responsibilities

Finance Operations

• Ensure timely and accurate recognition of accruals of trade spends. Monthly journal entry preparation for Trade Investment and other expenses to be accrued, as necessary.
• Track Trade Investment spends against budget, validating customer claims and ensuring proper documentation in place before payment processing.
• Tracking of customer’s PO submissions and payments.
• Customer pricing maintenance and checks in SAP/V2V.
• Updating ROI template to reflect latest base forecast.
• Prepare customer ageing report and highlighting payment dues.
• Instill commercial discipline and uphold compliance standards, proactively reviewing current processes to address control deficiencies.

Reporting & Analysis

• Providing insightful commentaries and support team reporting deliverables (weekly/monthly/quarterly/ adhoc).
• Preparation of monthly business review decks.
• Support pricing proposals and update of master tracker.
• Support the Commercial Finance Team in designing reports to review promotional plans and evaluate post event ROIs.
• Update and management of financial overlays in monthly forecast cycle.

Planning & Forecasting

• Highlight any risks and opportunities and to the Commercial Finance Team on a timely basis.
• Support the Commercial Finance Team in developing and fine-tuning the business planning process.

Others

• Propose and post journals managing BI accruals.
• Support project implementations and UAT within Finance Team.
• Support business case for innovation or new business opportunities.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified with finance or accounting qualification and 3-5 years relevant industry experience.
• Experience in using advanced Microsoft Excel (essential), as well as previous exposure to ERP and management reporting/consolidation systems (preferable).
• Experienced in writing succinct and insightful business performance reports, and summarizing business analysis.
• Proven experience in working proactively across commercial functions.
• Fluent in English.