Role Description

The Planning Coordinator will provide business finance support including performing financial planning and analysis, preparing budget/forecast for management review, financial analysis/report to support business decisions and financial evaluation for different business opportunities. The role will be able to interact with clients to ensure all financial and operational targets are achieved and be able to thrive in a complex, global, matrixed environment and manage competing deadlines and priorities.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide business partner and financial support to cross functional stakeholders.

• Provide high quality financial information to clearly understand performance and opportunities and drive business decisions and/or long term strategic initiatives. Ensure that the P&L figures are correct and shows the actual performance of the business.

• Monthly build high quality financial reports to track, validate and analyze at minimum detail of all P&L accounts, including the P&L consolidation compared with forecast and last year results, such as, Indirect Expenses report by area, Brand P&L's, Sales Master File, Scorecards, Working Papers, Control of inventory days report, etc. The level of detail is by SKU (in case of revenues and cost of goods), brand, cost center, account and period.

• Build robust and detail annually & quarterly forecast of all P&L lines by cost center, account and brand, in order to adjust expectations and proactively modify business plans to achieve IBT.

• Operating Expenses Forecast (annually & quarterly): Build with accuracy the forecast, in the case of Direct Marketing Expenses. For the Indirect Expenses, build several scenarios to evaluate the financial impacts, travel & entertainment expenses, training expenses, depreciations, insurances, etc.

• Creation of several reports, such as P&L, Revenues, and Opex including explanations of all the variances versus Plan, Last Estimate and Last Year, monthly, quarterly and YTD basis.

• Closely work with Business Finance Center partner and support the adoption of standardized reports and processes by country commercial teams to drive simplification and demand management with focus on value-adding activities.

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Economics, Finance or related disciplines

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a good team player and focus on customer needs and priorities.

• Skillset in problem solving, critical thinking, time management and project planning & delivery; Detail-minded, able to handle multi-tasks and work independently.

• Strong client facing skills with ability to work with multiple stakeholders. Ability to meet all key deliverables of Business Partnering through prioritization and demand management.

• Excellent ability to autonomously generate and effectively communicate analytical insights, utilizing financial tools (e.g. SAP, Global and Local Mosaic) and modeling as well as standard MS Office capabilities (Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).

• Minimum of 3 years of comprehensive experience in finance area: accounting, costs, forecasting, financial risks and transactional processes.

• English fluency.