Finance business partner

Core job responsibilities

• Support BU Director at all internal and external (global) reviews of BU performance, annual planning and business cases approval, acting as a prime financial person responsible for BU financial performance;
• Support key functions as prime finance person in budget tracking, expense efficiency analysis, risk assessment, business cases assessment, methodology questions.
• Lead annual planning process for BU for all P&L lines (GS, NS, Gross Margin, A&P, SG&A) and distributors stocks by each product within BU.
• Act as a prime finance person in approvals/decision making for BU with direct responsibility for BU financial results (sale and profit) Supports strategic business development initiatives from finance perspective.
• Manages such initiatives as first financial contact point: manages assumptions, forecast, finds the solutions for finance risk mitigations.
• Receive, analyze and challenge the marketing & sales projections and assumptions for the local Business Units.
• Monitor all Risks and Opportunities vs last forecast; assess their probability. Initiate gap closing exercise (or Plan B execution), if required for gap closing reasons.
• Approve all BU and departments/functions expenses.
• Actively participate in sales & Operational planning process (S&OP): check reliability of assumptions behind sales forecasts, monitor full year performance of BU vs Plans, raise “red flags” if any risks observed; facilitate gap closing (plan B) discussions.
• Propose, monitor and validate targets achievement for BU;
• Constantly train and educate BU team, driving higher level of financial knowledge (drivers of NS, Profit, financial consequences of business decisions, etc).
• Keep the BU Management constantly informed of general status and issues.

Minimum education

• Master degree, in finance, economics.
• Additional finance qualifications ACCA, CIMA as s plus

Minimum experience/training required

• 5+ year experience in business finance position in big multinational companies with at least 1 years managerial experience
• Organizational skills: strong leadership ability, conflict resolution / management, learning agility, drive for change, dealing with ambiguity, business acumen
• Technical Skills: Analytical and strategic thinking, highly efficient communication and presentation skills, process improvement/optimization mentality, evident cross-functional experience.
• SAP knowledge and extensive excel knowledge
• Fluent English / Russian