Financial Analyst CoPilot- RGM

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POSITION SUMMARY:

As part of the Revenue Growth Management (RGM) team, this role focuses on helping Nestle grow profitably by improving pricing, promotions, and marketing strategies. You'll support the Walmart and Sam's Club account team and work closely with sales to manage a key part of the business. Your responsibilities include financial analysis and support for customer negotiations, business reviews, and planning. You'll also collaborate with teams like shopper marketing, category insights, and supply chain to meet financial goals. This position gives you the chance to influence decisions and be a strategic partner for a major customer team, helping manage a multi-billion dollar revenue portfolio and ensuring smart use of sales and promotional funds.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

The Financial Analyst will provide financial oversight including detailed event level planning, promotional spend review, forecasting, reporting, and ad-hoc customer analysis, with an emphasis on maintaining sound financial controls around trade budget spending. This will require someone who is comfortable digesting large amounts of data and can use both art and science to convert it into actionable insights for the organization. A strong fit for this role is a self-starter with 3 years of experience in CPG or a related field, able to influence results through data-driven insights. They thrive in cross-functional teams, show curiosity, and value progress over perfection. With a solid finance or accounting background, strong communication skills, and quick learning ability, they confidently deliver high-quality work independently and collaboratively.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

The position is instrumental in maintaining control of NPS, trade spend, NNS, and evaluating & driving overall efficiency of trade plans. The Key Performance indicators are sales volume, real internal growth, organic growth, trade, sales contribution, and promotional trade efficiency. The key quality indicators are trade management, forecasting, deduction management and strategic business partnering.

AREAS OF FOCUS:

• Work proactively with Category Account Managers (CAM) during annual planning, ensuring alignment with Commercial Action Plans and ROI thresholds for promotions.
• Ensure the accuracy of events in Osprey and review plan adjustments as needed throughout the year.
• Meet with CAMs/ Sales Director to understand variances to goals, on both sales and trade. Communicate results and work with CAMs to develop solutions for driving sales or for adjusting trade activities to ensure goals are met.
• Lead monthly business review meetings with the CAMs to ensure successful trade management and optimization of trade. This will includeanalytical review of monthly/annual forecasts and promotional plan performance - leading to objective, timely and fact-based communication of volume/trade opportunities and gaps to the Divisions.
• Support governance and compliance to trade program policies.
• Drive usage and adoption of promotional trade efficiency tools. Partner with CAM and SRM team to propose actionable solutions to drive more efficient trade spend and adjustments to promotion plan based on historical data.
• Propose actionable solutions to business challenges by performing root cause analysis to identify and quantify value creation opportunities.
• Work closely with CAMs to understand consumption data and identify base and incremental volume trends and their impact on financial performance.
• Help with process improvements across Revenue Growth Management.
• Support compliance and controls framework to ensure rock solid financial reporting and a culture of being 'audit ready at all times'.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors in Accounting/Finance or equivalent required.
• 3 years financial analysis experience in Consumer Goods company/industry preferred.
• Previous experience with Sales Finance/RGM and/or Internal Audit management a plus
• Intermediate/Advanced in Excel and SAP (or other ERP System) preferred.
• Position is located in Rogers, AR
• Travel estimated up to 10% (Planning Sessions/Business Reviews/Sales Finance team meetings).

SKILLS:

• Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical problem solving skills.
• Superior execution skills in a changing environment and ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Strong data management and analytical skills, and critically important to be able to deliver the message to non-finance professionals.
• Proven ability to not only deliver, but drive excellent work in a team and matrix organization
• Excellent inter-personal communication and the ability to influence others; negotiation skills a plus.
• Self-starter and shows initiative and quickly learns the specifics of the customer and revenue growth management.
• Ability to drive change
• Critical thinking/ Curiosity
• Strong Business acumen
• Understanding of Customer Profitability concepts and the use of customer P&Ls to drive business
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

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