Finance Analyst

Brown-Forman; Castilla-La Mancha; Sur place; EUR 17 000 - 29 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Brown-Forman is seeking a Finance Analyst in Guadalajara to support and analyze business performance. You will partner with Finance Managers to drive analytics, support commercial management processes, and assist with forecasting, budgeting, and pricing initiatives.

The role requires strong analytical capabilities, English fluency, and experience with tools like SAP, Tableau, and Excel. A 2+ year background in finance is preferred.

Qualifications

• Degree in accounting/finance/economics/statistics or engineering.
• 2+ years of business experience or equivalent.
• Fluency in English and strong analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience with data sources for analysis (Excel, Tableau, SAP, etc.).

Responsabilités

• Collaborate across functions to align analytical efforts with business priorities.
• Perform descriptive and predictive analyses to drive action and insights.
• Support pricing, discounting, and annual pricing guidance with insights.
• Partner with NAMs to provide market pricing ahead of meetings.
• Support monthly/quarterly/year-end close with FP&A inputs.
• Prepare ad hoc reports and presentations for reviews.

Connaissances

Fluency in English

Financial analysis

Microsoft Office

Tableau

SAP

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Formation

Bachelor's or Master's degree in accounting, finance, economics, statistics or engineering

Outils

SAP

Tableau

Microsoft Excel

Google Applications

Description du poste

Meaningful Work From Day One

The Finance Analyst role will provide support and analytical insight, and will partner with Finance Managers to analyze business performance. As a critical finance business partner, the Finance Analyst will execute against organization-wide analytical priorities, promote a culture of analytics, and support our commercial management processes and systems. This person will report to a USA&C Finance Manager.

What You Can Expect

Promote a Culture of Finance & Analytics

• Collaborate across functions (finance, sales, marketing & operations) to align analytical efforts against business priorities.
• Perform analysis to formulate insights that drive action. Areas of analysis will be broad based and will include financial, distribution, velocity, consumer, customer, etc.
• With the manager's oversight, conduct descriptive and predictive analysis both independently and collaboratively.
• Perform post‑promotional analysis to evaluate program/spend effectiveness, ROI and deal level lift analysis.
• Ad hoc requests related to market/cluster, e.g. channel, distribution and account analytics, supporting the forecasting process and inputs for business reviews.
• Actively participate in rolling forecast and budget planning, with a focus on pricing.

Pricing & Margin Analysis

• Assist in all processes related to pricing and discounting, including validation of discounting, maintaining/updating price structures, resolving pricing errors, scan/coupon tracking, and invoice processing.
• Support the annual pricing guidance process, including seeking to understand the overall pricing environment/trends, leveraging insights to identify opportunities, and quantifying implemented pricing actions throughout the year.
• Partner with the National Account Managers ("NAM's") to provide market pricing in advance of NAM's customer meetings.

Supporting Commercial Management Processes & Systems

• Assist in the resource allocation process to ensure resources are efficiently allocated across the team.
• Ad hoc reporting and presentations support (MBR/QBR, New Item Presentations, etc.).
• Partner with FP&A to process monthly, quarterly and year‑end financial close related requirements (come‑in, journal entries, accrual backup, prepaids, etc.).
• Provide pricing to help complete the New Item Setup process.
• Provide supplemental MRM support beyond the Region SMS scope.
• Reconcile distributor investment funds and support sales manager oversight process
• Support Finance Manager in daily Finance department activities

What You Bring to the Table

• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in accounting, finance, economics, statistics or engineering (preferable).
• Experience: Bachelor's Degree with at least 2 years of business experience or equivalent experience.
• Language: Fluency in English.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, creativity, passion for problem‑solving, and strong diagnostic skills in order to connect the dots and provide a thorough business analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills, relationship building, and influencing skills with the ability to collaborate with partners across a broad organization (Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance).
• Experience with utilizing various software/data sources for analysis (e.g. Microsoft Office, Google Applications, Tableau, SAP, etc.).
• Demonstrated professional maturity, business acumen, sound business judgment, and ability to provide advice to management based on objective and impartial analysis.
• A proactive self-starter.
• Ability to work both independently and within a team while putting the success of the group ahead of personal ambitions.
• Personal honesty and integrity: the ability to effectively handle confidential information.

What Makes You Unique

• Experience: Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, or mathematics.
• Commercial finance and pricing experience.
• Beverage alcohol or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry experience.

Who We Are

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

What We Offer

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.

Brown-Forman Corporation is committed to equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. It is the policy of Brown-Forman Corporation to provide full and equal employment opportunities to all employees and potential employees without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, veteran status, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability or any other legally protected status.

Business Area: Americas Division

Function: Finance

City: Guadalajara

State:

Country: MEX