Commercial Analyst (in Yerevan, with Russian)

The purpose of the job

• Main coordinator and contact point for Commercial budget; consolidating input from various budget owners and analyzing the expenditures and providing timely summary to the Commercial Management team.
• Establish/assist in the preparation within the required time various results, reports, analysis and budgets, according to the needs and request of Philip Morris management
• Support various Commercial departments in identifying and analyzing budgets and variances; recommending optimal solutions for possible business opportunities e.g. resources allocations and ensuring effectiveness of expenditures / investments (effectiveness of programs).

Skills 

• Proactively contribute in all phases of the budget cycle (zero budget data collection, analysis and consolidation) while serving as advisory role to colleagues from Commercial department.
• Propose improvements in current processes and support Manager in its implementation.
• Provide accurate and timely budget details input in budgeting system - Local Budget Preparation Framework (LBPF).
• Support Manager and other team members in analysis and consolidation of SEE Commercial budget.
• Provide efficient service to other departments in the SEE commercial organization, ensuring flexibility and sharing financial data and knowledge for the purpose of further analysis (Commercial Services, Procurement, Key Accounts..).
• Analyze on your own the processes and bookings in other markets and propose improvements to Manager.
• Preparation of monthly SEE Cost Control reports and regularly use of SAP reports in order to check bookings (ensure their alignment with US GAAP and local legislation).
• Review and provide accurate & timely period (monthly, quarterly and yearly) reports on all financial data and variances to enable effective tracking on the Commercial's spending in identifying potential over/under spending.
• Coordinate the Month-end and Year-end accruals process to ensure all commitments are timely and accurately reflected in the Company’s financials.
• Educate and coach cost center owners on understanding of accruals and proper process in preparation of monthly and Year-End accruals.
• Consolidating Commercial budgets/presentation materials with extensive cost breakdown and variance analysis for local management team on the actuals expenditures and PM budget cycles (OB, RF and LRP).
• Proposed financial analysis for Management to identify opportunities to improve the Commercial team's financial and operational performance.
• Support supervisor in the preparation of Commercial budgets in conjunction with Commercial sub-function management
• Consolidate budgets for review by Commercial and Senior Management, providing variance analyses and commentaries

Required Qualifications

• Higher education in economy / business /
• Min 2 years of work experience in accounting and budgeting
• Strong analytical skills
• MS Office (very good command of Excel), SAP knowledge
• Very good knowledge of Armenian, Russian and English
• Work experience in international company is a plus
• A VPN is required to respond to a vacancy.