Global Business Performance Senior Analyst

Global Business Performance Senior Analyst

Location: Paris

Full time

Job Description:

General job description:

Integrated into a team of 15 people, Global Business Performance Senior Analyst is contributing to the monitoring of Group financial performances (P&L) thanks to a deep sense of analysis, an understanding of Business challenges, participation to Group projects, a good knowledge of financial tech platform, and a good ability to participate to presentation to management.

Main activities and responsibilities:

• Mission 1: Consolidation, restitution, and presentation of the monthly P&L reporting, yearly/half year and Rolling forecasts and Strategic plan process

• Anticipate closing needs (perimeter, adhoc, MDH…)

• Responsible for consolidating data (reporting, rolling forecasts…) on its P&L lines and scope of responsibility: ensure the respect of deadlines, the accuracy and consistency of financial information (respect of Group accounting guidelines), and the quality of business analyses in relation with different affiliates

• Monthly support to General Management in monitoring and analyzing Group organic growth and main P&L ratios in relation with BP&A managers and affiliates

• Help building some forward-looking analysis to recommend strategic resources allocations and P&L arbitrages to Top management, leveraging historical performance, knowledge of affiliates business and Group strategy

• Participate to the rolling forecast process (from planning and instructions to final presentation for the Board)

• Mission 2: Support and advise one Group direct affiliates and Brand BU with performance monitoring

• Monthly analysis of affiliates' and Brand BU P&L reporting

• Monitoring of non-financial performance (market share, pricing, trade inventories)

• Implementation of all optimization projects and changes in reporting (new appendix, new account, etc…) in line with Group standards and requirements

• Continuous improvement of reporting comments quality and relevance (template, content, feedback to affiliates…)

• Close follow up of risks and opportunities, landing management, challenge affiliates on forecast accuracy and targets achievement

• Regular physical or remote business reviews with affiliates

• Share best practices (financial, technical…) among affiliates

• Mission 3: Support transversal project and preparation of ad hoc analysis to support decision making

• Participate to ad-hoc analysis for other departments: Commercial Finance, Global Market, Global Brands, Tax, Operations, M&A, statutory consolidation, HR… on transversal topics: innovation, E-commerce, Revenue Growth Management, Transfer prices, Group Recharges, …

• Lead some Finance projects such as Datalens powered by Polaris, Essbase, Product cloud improvements…. List non exhaustive as new projects will pop up

• Mission 4: Assistance to financial communication team to prepare external communication

• Take part in the Financial Communication Data elaboration and check

• Prepare detailed qualitative and quantitative information (by brand and market) to support external messages and to help Top Management answer questions

• Mission 5: Drive the development and enrichment of reporting tool and P&L accounting principles

• Enrich management reporting guidelines (P&L) and ensure alignment with Group Accounting Guidelines

• Anticipate impacts of any change required in reporting process (new product, new affiliate, change in currency)

• Strong involvement on the digitalization of the reporting being the new Reporting and Planning tool (Polaris) and the Business Intelligence related platform (local BI for affiliates and Datalens):

Required experience and skills:

Education required: Engineer's school/ Business school/ Equivalent University Degree

Work experience required: 2-3 years in leading Audit Consulting Firm or as Financial Analyst, if possible, in the FMCG sector.

General skills:

• Rigor, "figures-oriented analysis" capacity, accuracy, and attention to detail

• Organization, anticipation, sense of prioritization and timing

Technical skills:

• Knowledge of accounting and finance

• Expert in Excel, VBA is a plus

• Capacity to quickly build some forward-looking models

• Knowledge of Pernod Ricard management processes and tools is a plus

• Ready to leverage new technologies (Tagetik, Essbase)

• Project management

Soft skills/attributes Key leadership skills

• Team player, enthusiasm, curiosity

• Capacity to deliver with high standard under pressure

• Diplomacy but capacity to stand up for his/her positions

Languages: Fluency in English and French

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