Senior Sales Finance Leader: Trade & Analytics

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 134,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates in Chicago seeks a Senior Sales Finance Manager to lead planning, forecasting, analytics, and governance of trade investments. You will partner with Channel Finance, Sales, SRM and Controllership to drive insights, efficiency, and digital tools such as Trade Dashboard.

The role focuses on cross-channel support, quarterly reviews of Trade and D&E investments, and building a digital-leaning finance function, with strong Excel and BI skills, aiming to improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, or an MBA preferred.
• CPA preferred.
• 7+ years of related experience in FMCG.
• Experience in a matrix organization preferred.
• Experience in Demand Finance and Strong Business Acumen, including knowledge of US market and Retail landscape.
• Solid foundation in financial concepts, modeling, scenario planning, and variance analysis.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with visualization/reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Serves as Business Partner for several sales teams across channels, leading periodic financial reviews, providing performance insights, supporting Sales team in trade-offs, decision making and forecasting. Collaborates closely with Channel Finance lead.
• Leads & orchestrates quarterly review of Trade and D&E investments in collaboration with Channel Finance Leads. This includes process ownership, managing reporting and analytics, coordinating reviews with each channel, providing insights and key messages for aggregate outlook.
• Owns operational processes and leads internal and external insights package with executive summaries and partners with Channel Finance Leads on narrative.
• Supports Channel Finance Leads in quarterly Channel/Account performance reviews by providing streamlined, insightful reporting and leveraging digital tools.
• Supports overall digital agenda, responsible for continuous improvement of digital tools, identifying and executing further opportunities for digitalization, leading customer adoption and capabilities building.
• Transforms trade spend analytics including step-change in quality of data (account, brand, check book, promotion, periodic phasing) as well as develop suite of tools to enable insights and value creation.
• Center of Excellence for Trade and D&E Governance.
• Supports internal and external audits within scope of responsibility.
• Supports projects and ad-hoc requests.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Financial modeling

Communication skills

Business partnering

US retail knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

CPA preferred

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Mars, Incorporated and its Affiliates in Chicago seeks a Senior Sales Finance Manager to lead planning, forecasting, analytics, and governance of trade investments. You will partner with Channel Finance, Sales, SRM and Controllership to drive insights, efficiency, and digital tools such as Trade Dashboard.

The role focuses on cross-channel support, quarterly reviews of Trade and D&E investments, and building a digital-leaning finance function, with strong Excel and BI skills, aiming to improve