Commercial Finance Analyst EMEA LZAJP00005627

Coopers Group GmbH; Basel; Vor Ort; CHF 80’000 - 110’000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading company in the EMEA region is seeking a Commercial Finance Analyst to support Sales and Business Units. This role involves financial compliance, budget planning, and collaborating with sales on pricing strategies. Candidates should have advanced Excel skills and a background in fast-paced international environments.

Qualifikationen

• Excellent proficiency in Excel (Advanced).
• Fluency in both spoken and written English.
• Experience in a fast-paced international environment.

Aufgaben

• Finance business partner to Sales and BU teams for compliance and support.
• Organizes annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term planning.
• Analyses business performance and manages monthly closing and reporting.

Kenntnisse

Excel

Financial analysis

Commercial planning

Tools

SAP BW

Jobbeschreibung

Tasks:

• The Commercial Finance Analyst for EMEA is the finance business partner to the Sales and BU teams to ensure financial compliance, support commercial activities in the region and support day to day finance operations.
• Takes a supporting role in the region and in Finance, to help deliver on business objectives and strategies.
• Organizes and drive along with RBU Finance the relevant planning and analysis processes such as long term planning (BSR), annual budget, outlooks and forecasts for the region (commercial)
• Manage monthly closing and reporting, such as:
• Monthly reporting
• Monthly Pricing/Sales Performance (Price, Volume & Mix, FX), Sales and margins review, review of sales adjustments (rebates, etc.)
• Co-ordinate regional cost control for Sales and Business Development
• AR review
• Responsible for monitoring and tracking the rebates accruals vs expectation in collaboration with the sales teams
• Drives the monthly risks and opportunities process in collaboration with the Sales teams
• Analyses business performance, recommends benchmarks, highlights key opportunities and risks and works closely with commercial function in developing plans to capture opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Supports RBU Finance in all commercial financial planning & analysis for the region.
• Collaborates with the Sub Regions and be key stakeholder in the S&OP process (validate volumes and prices with sales, monitor inventory levels and customer payment behavior).
• Acts as business partner and plays an instrumental role in connecting dots between sales marketing and business development.
• Provide recommendations for customer pricing & credit limits, involvement in regional pricing strategy and manage the approval process with global stakeholders.
• Shares global responsibility for CHI financial and management accounting in accordance with IFRS, the Lonza Finance Accounting Manual (FAM) and other required accounting principles.
• Collaborates with Group Finance Management in ensuring state of the art financial systems and processes that maximize functional efficiency.
• Perform other duties as assigned by RBU Finance head.

Your profile:

• Excellent proficiency in Excel (Advanced), use of systems SAP BW
• Working experience in a fast pace international environment – strong advantage
• Fluency in both spoken and written English.