Commercial fp&a manager

Team Leadership: Cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Category teams

Role Overview

The ideal candidate will possess strong business acumen, analytical skills, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive the monthly rolling forecast, annual budget, and strategic planning processes for multiple categories.
• Consolidate and review financial projections by working closely with category, sales, and marketing leads.
• Prepare and present monthly performance dashboards, highlighting risks, opportunities, and key variances against plan.

• Act as a finance business partner to category and commercial leaders by providing financial insight and challenge on promotions, pricing strategies, and customer investments.
• Participate in S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) and category reviews, providing finance inputs to support demand planning and commercial decisions.
• Partner with trade marketing and customer teams to evaluate ROI of key campaigns, promotional activities, and channel performance.

• Perform gross margin and contribution analysis by category, channel, and customer.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews for commercial initiatives (e.g. new launches, pricing changes).
• Analyze consumer and market data to support category growth strategies and competitive benchmarking.

• Deliver accurate and timely financial reports, forecasts, and business performance reviews.
• Support the preparation of management presentations for local leadership and regional headquarters.
• Continuously improve reporting tools, models, and processes to enhance efficiency and insight generation.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related discipline; professional qualification (ACCA, CPA, CIMA) is preferred.
• Minimum 6–8 years of experience in commercial finance or FP&A roles within FMCG or consumer-facing industries.
• Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and analytical skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, and experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle) and reporting tools (Power BI, TM1, Tableau).
• Proven ability to influence non-finance stakeholders and lead cross-functional discussions.
• Strong business acumen, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a matrix environment.

• Prior experience supporting multiple product categories and commercial teams.
• Comfortable working in a regional or global MNC setup with cross-border stakeholders.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a proactive, hands-on approach.

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Bachelor Degree

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