Interim Commercial Controller - 12 months

Michael Page; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 35.000 - 55.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A multinational group in the FMCG and Retail sector seeks a Financial Analyst for a 12-month project in Madrid. The role involves supporting business teams, analyzing financial data, and contributing to budget processes. Ideal candidates will have a background in finance, strong analytical skills, and experience with financial reporting tools.

Formación

• Experience in a multinational FMCG or Retail company is a plus.
• Proficient in financial reporting standards.
• Strong analytical and presentation skills required.

Responsabilidades

• Support business teams with financial visibility and decision making.
• Assist in budget preparation and analysis of financial data.
• Prepare sales reports and insights for management.

Conocimientos

Financial analysis

Budget management

Data analysis

Sales tracking

Financial reporting

Educación

Degree in Finance or related field

Herramientas

Power BI

Descripción del empleo

• We offer a 12-month project based in Madrid
• Previous experience in a Big Four firm is a plus.

Our client is a multinational group in the FMCG and Retail sector.

Essential Responsibilities

• Give support to all business teams through providing visibility on financial information and understanding, ensuring pertinent business decisions.
• Assist in the budget process, coordinate and assist the sales and marketing managers in building their budgets by customers and brands.
• Assist with the tracking of monthly and quarterly closing and reporting, of the budget (and revised budget) process; analysis ok variations vs budget and prior year.
• Prepare and analyse Reporting for relevant departments: NS, Margins; mix analysis, etc by Cot and brand;
• Proactively generate relevant information and analysis, supporting Sales and Marketing teams while helping decision making.
• Monitoring of Daily sales, tracking of R&O for landing with the teams.
• Ensure compliance with applicable financial reporting standards and policies.

Main recurrent tasks in detail

• Daily sales report & weekly report to International
• Monitoring of sales landing and key insights during the month. Gathering info from teams, lead weekly sales meeting and provide insights to Regional management
• Reports/dashboards with actuals to provide detailed financial info (sales, GTN and margins) by channel, customer and brand.
• Elaboration and automatisation of P&L by center and category for ECI, main customer of the company.
• Budget building in detail (annual & quarterly) and provide it to Finance team for system loading.
• Provide business insights regarding 3 months sales projections to Regional Shared Service Center (RDC) for Cash flow estimations.
• Customer planning elaboration with teams. Providing tool for completion, gathering info and loading into Dashboards in order to have comparisons with actuals.
• Monitoring of GtN with sales & finance in order to have control of it.
• Helping building tools for business tracking such as: initiatives tracking, Ideal Assortment accomplishment by customer/channel; Power BI report for Sell Out, rebates tracking by customer for Traditional channel.
• Involved in Annual Business Plan meetings (or any other meeting) with customers: supporting all info preparation
• Supporting Marketing manager in pricing decisions by providing tools and analysis
• Profitability check process regarding Promotion, product launches and customer opening: definition of process, creation of tools (P&L, profit pool), review and challenge with the teams and approval prior to Sales Director.
• Helping Management team in Business Reviews (with Top Management) info preparation.
• Leading or being involved in ad hoc project such as Ideal Assortment definition, customer clusterisation, redesign of Year End Rebates, Calculation of Full Potential of the company; Agile Project for Carrefour.
• Being the point of contact for any other controlling/analytical issue within the business.
• Support and giving trainings to the whole business on understanding and utilisation of company BI (mainly the cubes). Helping IT department in issue identification and maintenance of the cubes.

We offer a 12-month project starting asap.