Commercial Finance Analyst

Are you passionate about driving business growth through strategic commercial insight? At Savola Foods , we’re looking for a dynamic professional to oversee and analyze our commercial activities, playing a key role in accelerating profitability and unlocking new opportunities across diverse markets. Be part of a forward-thinking team where your impact matters and innovation thrives.

Job Description:

• Budgets and Plans: Spearhead the Budgeting process for international business for preparing the Plans and Rolling Forecasts from IMS to Primary shipments so that the business is aware of anticipated costs/revenues and areas of unsatisfactory performance are identified.
• Policies, Systems, Processes, & Procedures: Implement approved departmental policies, processes, procedures and instructions to subordinates and monitor their adherence so that work is carried out in a controlled manner.
• Day- to-day Operations: Lead the day-to-day operations of commercial finance to ensure that work processes are implemented as designed and comply with established policies, processes and procedures.
• Work closely with the commercial team and distributor team to analyze the monthly promotions, accrual review and provide insights at the month end to all commercial stakeholders.
• Provide financial insight to the Commercial and Marketing team.
• Business partnering with sales counterpart – with focus on CG/SIS/FS/Retail/Ecom channel.
• Evaluate Customer P&L & Promotions.
• Support in Monthly financial closing
• Prepare and analyze value chain for NPD/EPD or promotions.
• Preparing insightful reports and financial analysis to support Commercial team in decision making, highlighting significant variances vs. Budget, Forecast and previous year.
• Analyze sales/ margins - volume, price, mix vs. Budget/Forecast/LY - identifying issues & recommending actions.
• Aid with modelling and scenario testing for new products and business opportunities.
• Other Ad-hoc requirements to drive revenue maximization.
• Work Closely with Sales Team to support sales planning & analysis.
• Help establish/streamline policies and procedures throughout the department, support best practices in sales forecasting, reporting, and communications.
• Work with Trade Marketing team for the ROI analysis for every promotion – Preapproval and post analysis.
• Support Commercial team in preparing the Budget/Rolling Forecast/LRP plans.
• Be a bridge between the Demand Planning team and Sales team in analyzing and improving the Sales forecast accuracy.
• Work with the marketing team in implementing the price increases, making sure all the prices are implemented in system and conducting proactive analysis on the margin.
• Inform the sales team from time to time of the impact on margins due to WAC fluctuations.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes and practices considering ‘international best practice’, improvement of business processes, cost reduction and productivity improvement.
• Reporting: Prepare reports timely and accurately to meet Savola and finance department requirements, policies and standards.
• Health, Safety, & Environment: Monitor the adherence to all relevant safety and environmental management procedures and controls to guarantee employee safety, legislative compliance, delivery of high-quality products/service and a responsible environmental attitude.
• Related Assignments: Perform other related duties or assignments as directed.

• Education: CIMA Qualified/CPA/Qualified Chartered Accountant qualification
• Skills:
• Advanced or working knowledge experience with Microsoft Dynamic D365
• Ms. Office
• Effective stakeholder engagement
• Analytical & Critical thinking
• Leadership
• Problem solving
• Decision making
• Good listener & communicator
• Documentation and writing skills.
• Confident Presenter
• Experience:
• Experience in running and developing ERP and financial IT systems, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle Fusion.
• Experienced in Emerging Markets (especially Middle East and Asia) with management responsibilities across various geographies will be essential.
• Ideally, experience in working in an Ecommerce business or in a PE-backed company.
• A well-rounded Finance Professional with at least 5-6 years of experience who developed his/her career with blue chip companies in the food processing, manufacturing, or FMCG/Retail industry.
• Minimum2-3 years of experience in Food processing/ Manufacturing/FMCG
• Experienced in Emerging Markets (especially Middle East and Asia)