Senior Finance Analyst - Africa

Meaningful Work From Day One

The Senior Financial Analyst - Africa will report to the Finance Manager Africa. This role will be responsible to implement the commercial/finance function and support the planning, reporting, internal and external analytics for the whole Africa business team as well as helping to formulate long-term strategies for the various sub-regions.

The Senior Financial Analyst - Africa will provide timely and impactful commercial/financial analytics to support our commercial, brand, and business development initiatives across Africa. The role will also support the various distributor relationships, corresponding commercial set-ups and value chains and will help to focus on balanced value/volume growth in order to achieve challenging performance goals in an Emerging market environment. The Africa region (often also described as Sub-Saharan Africa) consists of approximately 50 countries.

What You Can Expect

• Value Chain Analysis, pricing & profitability
  
  

Utilize price structure to build value chain analysis by country/channel/ and search for business opportunities to maximize profit including pricing levers, discounting and channel strategy, and route-to-consumer efficiency.

Develop and maintain actionable analyses and reports to drive understanding of profitability across all relevant dimensions: channels, customer, brand and SKUs to support commercial decision making.

Model and forecast P&Ls for new product developments in order to ensure correct pricing decisions. Review current pricing over all relevant dimensions.

• Reporting & Business reviews
  
  

Utilize P&L by country to perform Quarterly/Monthly Business reviews with Marketing & Commercial team to identify areas to improve profitability. Analyzes and explains variances versus planned results.

Use external resources such as Nielsen or other resources to support finance/commercial decisions and investments.

Perform deep dive analysis for countries, brands, channels, clients using internal and external information to understand the performance of the business and identify business opportunities

• Discount & Brand investment effectiveness (ROI)
  
  

Lift analysis to define expected lift for promotional activities (Pre-promotion) as well as actual lift calculation after promotions have concluded. Support brand teams with reports and analyses to understand the effectiveness of brand building activities to maximize the exploitation of long term brand potential.

• Planning and Forecasting
  
  

Support the monthly forecasting processes in close cooperation with all functions within the region. Manage all steps necessary in this key financial process in order to ensure superior resource allocation. Develop and maintain long-term business models in order to facilitate strategy formulation.

• Distributor Management
  
  

Assist in management of distributor relations. Monitor distributor performance by analyzing distributor sales data and by tracking compliance with performance and incentive metrics. Liaise with counterparts at distributor concerning operational management of the distribution agreement: data interchange, supply / demand forecasting, reimbursements, periodic activity reconciliations.

• Sales & Cost analysis
  
  

Assist brand teams in understanding sales performance by brand and channel with an eye to opportunities and issues and assist in the development of sales enhancement strategies.

Control and understand selling, general and administrative expenses, so they can be optimized and effectively allocated to activities and cost owners (departments, brands, channels)

• Revenue Growth Management
  
  

Work closely and collaboratively with sales teams in managing pricing by adhering to the pricing process including interpreting and standardizing price structures. Preparing analysis and recommendations for all price changes for approval. Support teams in deployment of RGM strategy and implementation of RGM initiatives.

• Reporting
  
  

Create and implement dashboard reports that provide insightful analysis, identify required action items and effectively frame decisions to be made. Monitor monthly Shipments/Depletions and distributor inventory. Provide monthly analysis for discounting, SNS and GP analysis. Review T&E and SG&A monthly; identify and communicate reasons for variances and follow-up action steps.

What You Bring To The Table

• A Proven track record in an international / global company as business analyst or management accountant. Prefer experience in FMCG industry.
• Excellent general PC skills (Microsoft Office Suite, Google Apps), advanced or expert level user of Microsoft Excel, familiar with enterprise software (SAP or similar), database tools (MS Access) and business intelligence tools (BW, Business Objects or similar)
• Superior oral and written communications skills including fluency in the English language, with the ability to clearly discuss business issues and translate into financial implications and action plans.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills to develop and maintain effective work relationships with all levels of personnel with the ability to challenge constructively.
• The ability to work independently in a matrix structure and execute responsibilities in a high volume, deadline oriented environment; the willingness and ability to organize, implement, and complete multiple tasks with limited direction; can maintain accurate documentation and perform quality work with accuracy and attention to detail.
  
  

What Makes You Unique

• Chartered Accountant plus 2-5 years of relevant business experience.
• Proven ability to effectively handle confidential information and materials.
• Experience in international financial analysis.
• Solid accounting and financial management experience
• Ability to think conceptually, strategically and proactively.
  
  

Who We Are

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

What We Offer

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.

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Business Area: Europe, Africa, APAC Division

Function: Finance

City

Cape Town

State

Country: ZAF

Req ID: JR-00008931