Danone Hiring for Commercial Finance Controller Job at London, England Full Time

Location – Danoners have the personal choice to decide where and how to work! Therefore, we support remote/flexible working for this position. Your place of work will be your home and your nearest Danone regional hub, balancing the nature of your role, the business and stakeholder needs. Danone hubs are located in London, Trowbridge & Birmingham.
Salary – Competitive; benefits to include annual bonus, double matched pension, private healthcare, and a fantastic flexible benefits package. More information below.

Mission of the role:

• Support Marketing in defining a strategy by Brand and challenging the consistency of marketing investment to fuel growth
• Support Topline Controller and Commercial teams on the Beverage category Net Sales performance management and forecasting
• Optimize return on investment of advertising, promotion and other topline activation levers along with topline teams
• Optimize return on investment of innovation/renovation projects by supporting the development of robust business cases
• Ensure the advertising related financial information is reliable and reflects up-to-date commitments

Key Responsibilities:

Support topline performance through ad hoc analysis and recommendations and Specialist SPOC for digital marketing teams including:

• Brand strategy & P&L
• Innovation / renovation support
• Portfolio analysis

Support Forecasting process of net sales short & Long term

• GPS cycle SPOC for plain water, & flavoured water category business team

Support forecasting process of advertising & promotion and its allocation by brand

• A&P steerco animation
• Brand activation plans

Establish agile support for group and internal reporting of items in scope

• Topline by brand
• Brand & category P&Ls and A&P analysis and animation
• Integrated Customer Experience (ICX) team activities

Stakeholder interactions:

• Commercial Finance Director
• FP&A team
• Head of Finance
• PRGM team
• Chief Digital Officer
• Head of EBusiness
• Brand Managers

About you

About You

• Commitment to deliver results on promises
• Planning and Controlling: provide value added analysis and proactive recommendations for profitable growth
• Ability to analyze and interpret financial information
• Experience working with A&P management and Topline
• Business/Finance degree and/or Professional Accounting Qualification desireable
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and Knowledge of multidimentional databases (Essbase, Hyperion, SAP, Power BY)

About us

About Us

Danone is a major FMCG company in the UK, with market leading brands across three categories: Waters (Evian, Volvic and Harrogate), Essential Dairy and Plant Based (Alpro, Actimel, Activia, Oikos and Light & Free) and Specialized Nutrition including Early Life Nutrition (Aptamil and Cow & Gate and Medical Nutrition (Fortisip).

Our mission is to bring health through food to as many people as possible, meanwhile respecting the planet. In fact we are a certified BCorp in most of our categories and we are recognized as a force for good with all our employees playing an active role. Innovation is our key priority as we want to be pioneers both in existing and new category spaces.

We Offer

We offer a competitive package including a double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance and product vouchers. You will also be entitled to opt into a range of flexible benefits which you can pick to suit your lifestyle. These include discounted gym membership, childcare vouchers, dental cover, optical insurance, travel insurance, holiday buy & sell and much more!

Our mission and values guide how we behave, our ways of working, how we connect with our communities and how we develop our people. This is reflected in our employee offer and family friendly culture; for example, our health & wellbeing programme, sponsored volunteering opportunities and in how individuals are enabled to drive their own development.

Ensuring an inclusive working culture that is accessible to all is important to us; we therefore support flexible ways of working wherever possible. Please let us know in your application if and how you would like to explore flexible working for this position.

What’s Next?

This role closes on November 27th 2021. After this date applications will be screened and you will be contacted to confirm next steps.