Senior Finance Business Partner FTC 18 Months

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Red Bull UK is currently recruiting for a Senior Finance Business Partner FTC 18 Months to be based in London, UK.

Be co-pilot and sparring partner to the Consumer Marketing Management Team: creating visibility and control of multi-functional multi-stakeholder project and cost matrix budgets and investment decisions; ensuring contract terms and compliance support accounting guidelines; setting up and leveraging systems to enable data driven decisions; and influencing cross functional partnerships that unite teams to deliver of our long term strategy.

Lead, manage, and develop the market's FP&A strategy: lead the annual forecast process across the UK business; lead the monthly forecast process + reporting to the Regional Finance Team; develop reporting and analysis suite to evolve business financial insights that will shape the annual plans + financial strategy. Stakeholders will range from local budget owners up to Directors, Regional + HQ Finance teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

• GENERAL

  Guarantees full compliance with the Group Controlling guideline. Designs the system setup, to perfectly mirror the responsibilities in the organisation. Promotes efficiency in Controlling in order to minimize the time spent with report generation and maximize the time for analysis, commenting and insights sharing. Supports and establishes a true bottom up planning process, with high forecasting accuracy. Measures and reviews the cost/benefit ratio of proposed activities. Builds a solid relationship with budget holders based on mutual respect and trust. Is driven through a service mindset: sharing insights, supporting budget adherence and reallocations appraisals, identifying budget deviations and respective causes, and developing project business cases.

• MONTH END CLOSING

  Verifies the overall costs and revenue recognition cut-off for multiple profit centres. Coordinates the monthly accrual process following the cost revenue matching principle, and calculates timing accruals across both companies. Guarantee that all marketing costs and revenue are properly accounted for and analyzed vs forecast scenarios, and that balance sheet positions and reconciliations are accurate. Ensures master data quality of internal order hierarchies, reconciling where necessary. Coordinates, prepares, reviews MEC deliverables across Commercial Finance, and consolidates and circulates reporting packs with commentary to support the Controlling team.

• REPORTING & ANALYSIS

  Ensures timely distribution of financial information to every budget holder by sending out reports, by allowing system access and by presenting the information in regular meetings. Prepares and distributes reports on aggregated or on detailed level, comparing month, YTD, YTG, FY vs multiple comparatives, including comments on brand, project, event using SAP, BI, Hyperion, for budget owners + management. Performs ad hoc analysis when required.

• PLANNING & FORECASTING

  Coordinates, reviews, inclusively challenges, and aligns Consumer Marketing budget forecasts (phasing, YTG, FY, FY+1), data collection, data entry, and deadlines with Marketing team. Aggregates/consolidates the individual plans to a total plan. Identifies risks/opportunities within budgets to reforecast spend and update monthly outlooks. Lead the annual forecasting process by: Translating Group forecast timetable into an annual, locally relevant project for all Business Partnering functions; managing weekly communications that create clear deliverables and deadlines, an engaged accountable business, and an interconnected, accurate business plan in as simple a way as possible. Support Tax & Accounting team on the Balance Sheet planning with Marketing Accruals, Project Contract terms and cut over, Project Accounting treatments.

• BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

  Co-pilot and sparring partner for the Marketing Management Team, and their direct reports relating to project spend, Athlete/Agency/Supplier contract terms, forecasts, investment appraisals, and financial deliverables. Supports Marketing Management Team in budget reallocations and financial modelling. By leading the annual forecasting project, created an interconnected market across key stakeholders.

EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

• Strong experience in controlling, FP&A, finance business partner role in consumer goods.
• Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent, QBE).
• Good experience of, and extremely comfortable in an incredibly fast paced environment, with endless proactivity and initiative to find answers, problem solve, and work as a team.
• A structured, well-organised individual, with excellent attention to detail and influencing skills, able to manage own workload, tenacious, self-motivated, and self-directed, comfortable under pressure in a fast-paced team environment.
• Highly analytical, inquisitive self starter with a desire to improve the status quo at all times, the ability to quickly identify and assess risks and impacts, and able to define alternatives.
• Numerate, process orientated, personable, outgoing character able to build strong relationships with their stakeholders and provide constructive input with a demonstrable service/work ethic.
• Good communication and presentation skills. Capable of communicating precisely and effectively, based on facts, with internal stakeholders up to Leadership Team level.
• Clearly demonstrates the values and behaviours of Red Bull with a strong affinity to the brand.
• IT literate, excellent knowledge of the following tools: MS Excel, SAP BI, Hyperion

• Travel 0-10%

WHERE YOU'LL BE BASED

LondonEngland, United Kingdom

United KingdomRed Bull UK

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