Associate Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Joining the team at SC Johnson Professional® makes you part of a family company with a deep history in the professional market as a leading manufacturer of skin care, cleaning and hygiene products and smart technologies. We’re a team of more than 1,000 employees across five continents providing solutions to healthcare, industrial and institutional markets across the world.

SC Johnson Professional® is a business unit within SC Johnson, a family-owned and led company and leading manufacturer of quality, trusted products since 1886.

WELCOME TO SC JOHNSON

SC Johnson is a family business, leader in the consumer goods sector in cleaning products, and with strong brands such as Glade®, Duck®, Pliz®, Raid®, Autan®, Baygon®, and Pyrel ®. The company is present in more than 70 countries and its brands are sold throughout the world.

For 125 years, we have strived to provide our consumers with the best products while committing to contributing to their well-being and reducing our environmental footprint.

We are committed to providing our 13,000 employees with a stimulating and fulfilling working environment to achieve our ambitious objectives. We are also proud to regularly appear in the list of French companies where it is good to work and have been certified Great Place to Work 2023 and Best Workplace for Women 2023!

            Job Responsibilities, Objectives & Key Result Areas:

• In this position as Associate Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis Sales & Marketing at SCJ Professional, your key mission is to generate insights to drive the right commercial decisions for SC Johnson Professional’s business.
• You will develop strong cross-functional business relationships with the local commercial team to drive the long-term profitability of the business through business data intelligence, while pursuing opportunities which will deliver profitable growth and thus ensure delivery against strategic regional initiatives.
• As part of a cross-functional European team, you will ensure integrity in SCJ Professional’s financial reporting via close collaboration with SCJ’s Share Service Center (SSC), while leading projects to develop and implement tools which will drive standardization and harmonization in financial planning and reporting activities.

• Simultaneously, you will ensure that best-in-class Internal Controls are in place at SC Johnson Professional and support internal as well as external auditors with any queries they may have around revenue recognition or trade liabilities.
• To succeed in this role, you will build on your extensive experience in managing Budget & Forecast processes, your strong commercial acumen as well as your superior analytical, communication and cross-functional management skills.

            Drive excellence in business partnership with the local commercial team:

• Work with the Country Leadership Team as their Finance Business Partner to support business strategies, including NPD and base business.
• Lead the commercial Budget & Forecasting processes, including Sales & profitability forecasts at a product and customer level. Play an active role in the monthly S&OP cycle via sound analysis and driving forecast accuracy.
• Establish and improve reporting and KPI systems which allow the commercial team to gain timely insights into the performance of the business. Collaborate with the team to develop course-correction plans, as required.
• Partner with the Marketing & Sales Managers to identify opportunities to drive profitable business growth via pricing and mix analytics and reporting. Drive pricing harmonization for the local market and consider the full breadth of price levers including base price, rebate agreements as well as end-user specific price agreements.
• Drive business simplification initiatives, particularly addressing customer / distributor as well as SKU portfolio complexity.
• Be a “financial thought leader” for the commercial teams. Play a leading role in any discussions and decision processes on channel expansion, new future product launches, customer agreements, new markets etc. Support any key business decisions through a set of well-founded assumptions which can be used to measure success, as well as assessing the ROI of any key initiatives by performing a Net Present Value assessment.
• Drive the month-end reporting process. Analyze the results, summarize the key insights and explain required actions / trade-offs to the European senior management team.
• Manage SG&A / Functional Expenses – develop analytics to identify opportunities for cost improvement.

• Finance owner of the P&L from Gross Sales to Operat