Business Analyst - WECA at Kimberly-Clark

Worker Sub-Type: Regular
Time Type: Full time

Main Responsibilities

• Sector finance lead responsible for providing consultative leadership to all stake holders to drive category growth and margin improvement targets (Marketing Finance).
• Finance lead for all long term strategy work needed for the 5 year business plan
• Responsible for delivering Market / Category targets and development and delivery of early warning signals
• Accountable to streamline and optimize product pricing, margin analytics, portfolio management and develop critical KPI trackers to conduct monthly / quarterly and annual progress reviews and GAP analysis.
• Accountable for all financial analysis associated with NPI’s, Revenue Management and other marketing related initiatives.
• Conduct product level and geo mix analytics to review category/market growth opportunities and gaps. Demonstrate leadership in driving and influencing a wide range of sales, marketing and supply teams to identifying and execute new plans to counter risks and budgetary gaps.
• Be a business partner for WECA Commercial teams (Marketing, Trade and Sales) and provide budgetary and analytical support. Furthermore, driving the CFO mind-set through optimization of spend in Marketing.
• Quarterly forecasting  and Monthly Continuous improvements to drive speedier decision making to transfer to MID

Good to have:

• Building Strategic Relationships
• Communication | Customer/Client Focus
• Drive for Results | Facilitating Change
• Innovation | Decision Making
• Financial Planning and Analysis
• Commercial and Portfolio Strategy Planning & Execution
• Pricing & Spend Effectiveness
• Analysis of Brand/Channel profitability.

Requirements
Must Have:

• Experience in COSO framework, ERP / SAP conversant, US GAAP, IAS.
• Finance Degree, CIMA, ACA, MBA with 9+ years of experience in FMCG.
• Proven track record of delivering successful projects.