Sr Financial Analyst Co-Pilot- RGM

 

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If you're driven by the passion to do something meaningful that changes lives, Nestlé is the place for you. Nestlé USA is one of seven operating companies that make up Nestlé’s presence in the United States. We're in 97% of American homes, and as the leading food and beverage company, our goals are to continue to deliver quality food and beverage products, strengthen our local communities, and reduce our environmental and climate impact.

 

We’re determined to challenge the status quo and be better tomorrow than we are today. As individuals and teams, we embrace our entrepreneurial culture and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day. Here, you will find limitless opportunities to learn and advance your career and feel empowered to succeed in the workplace and beyond. Because our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you.

 

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POSITION SUMMARY:

This position offers the right person a unique opportunity to be a key financial influencer & strategic business partner for a NUSA customer team managing a multi-million dollar portfolio of revenue, facilitating key decisions related to sales and trade funds with a focus on ensuring profitable growth and adequate return on promotional investment.

 

Who are we looking for?

 

The Sr. 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. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter with at least 3-5 years of experience in CPG or a relevant field that has transferable examples of how they can influence and drive results. The successful individual will be highly collaborative in a cross functional environment and exemplify key behaviors such as: digital curiosity and progress over perfection. The successful individual will have a strong finance or accounting background, superior communication and people skills, ability to learn quickly, a solid understanding of Nestlé (or another CPG business), managerial courage and the ability to deliver high performance work both within a team and independently. 

 

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 include analytical review of monthly/annual