Contractual basis for 18 months - Commercial Finance

Job Purpose and Impact

• The Professional, Commercial Finance job performs moderately complex financial planning, analysis and forecasting to support developing business strategy, setting clear, financially focused targets and ensuring effective deployment of capital. With limited supervision, this job acts as a critical business partner and performs necessary financial rigor and moderately complex analysis to monitor the progress and achievement of financial results for value creation for the organization. This job implements the capital investment portfolio across the assigned business to align program outcomes, objectives and technical goals with the corporate, group and functional strategy to deliver business outcomes.

Key Accountabilities

• BUSINESS/FUNCTION FINANCIAL PLANNING: Coordinates and links moderately complex financial planning, analysis, and forecasting processes, including customer profitability analysis and enterprise service demand drivers, for a regional or multiple country business or function, by applying an understanding of key drivers of results and related sensitivities.
• DRIVES BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: Understands performance metrics and business model drivers to support strategy execution and value creation, applying technology to implement the aligned end to end performance management of the business.
• MODELING & ANALYTICS: Develops and delivers moderately complex modeling and benchmarking to bring insights to the business, and develops and delivers presentations to communicate insights, including defending positions on controversial topics, and adapting style to continuously seek mutually beneficial solutions.
• FORECASTING: Partners to develop necessary financial projections and propose financial forecast and model for the business to support new product development projects.
• COLLABORATION: Partners with finance, business and functional team members to help improve connectivity and effective communication.
• CAPITAL PROJECT INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT REPORTING & ANALYSIS: Monitors and reports on the status of the portfolio performance metrics and goals, overall business impact of projects within the portfolio and programs, partners to identify variances from plans, and implements the approved corrective actions.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Conducts and interprets research to help identify key issues and suggest optimization and process changes.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 5 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.