Sales Finance Analyst
Reckitt · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Start free — we apply for you →- The Finance Analyst monitors the Commercial KPIs, strengthens the commercial and financial controls; and reviews all the commercial spends of the region. Primarily interacts with the Sales teams and Trade Marketing as a business partner to help deliver across commercial KPIs. The role owner is required to be the controller for all trade spend related activities, ensuring they go through a robust financial analysis, are approved by the relevant authority and monitors effective market execution and transfer of incentives.
Your responsibilities
- Ensure monitoring and effective operation of
- Commercial KPIs
- Trade Spends against Plan/Forecasts
- Stocks levels at DB
- Stock reconciliation
- DB audits
- Sales Returns and disposals
- Price grids & product costing
- Implement ROI improvement in Trade initiatives
- Manage trade spend budget with budget owners trade marketing and ensure spends are in line with all approvals
- Conduct Pre and Post evaluation of Consumer and Trade Promos
- Support with internal and external Audit for commercial function
- Drive improvement and automation across the trade spend review process to ensure minimal manual intervention
- Drive Productivity agenda across commercial function to deliver savings as per targets
- Price list management: Ensure correct price lists are provided to customers, sales team and captured in RB systems
- Perform checks on effective executions of activities in trade and correct transfer of incentives to trade/customers
- Develop a robust mechanism to verify and process all trade related claims timely and with utmost accuracy
- Carry out reconciliation with customers to ensure there is no spend that is carried out without due approval and all spend is brought to Reckitt's knowledge
- Collaborate with customer finance teams to help ensure correctness and accuracy of information being shared to Reckitt
The experience we're looking for
- Professional qualification/Undergraduate/Postgraduate Degree in Finance/Accounting with relevant experience in industry
- Minimum 1 - 2 years experience
- Advanced Excel skills PivotTables, financial modeling, scenario analysis
The skills for success
- Business Acumen, analytical Skills, detailed orientated, financial analysis, proactive, results driven, communication skills, presentation skills