Fp&a Analyst

**Date**:Sep 12, 2024

**Location**: Jakarta, ID

**Company**:AkzoNobel

**About AkzoNobel**

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands - including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon - is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today - while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

© 2024 Akzo Nobel N.V. All rights reserved.

**Job Purpose**:

- The FP&A Commercial analyst reports to the Head of Regional FP&A Commercial and works closely with the Commercial Navigator, creating an impact by providing high value adding analysis to the Commercial organization
- Supports the Commercial Navigator in generating insights, particular in the area of sales and margin management, performance cell analysis, deal support and A&P effectiveness
- Supports the global FP&A commercial processes, like planning and budgeting that support the strategic objectives of AkzoNobel
- Supports continuous improvements and standardization initiatives

**Key Accountabilities**:
**Generating** **insights** **and** **analyzing trends**
- Analyzes current and past trends in key performance indicators; monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
- Calculates price, volume, mix impact per channel/segment/customer and highlights areas for margin improvement
- Monitors brand, product, customer profitability Tracks NPI progress
- Supports the review of A&P and other discretionary S&D cost effectiveness
- Develops financial models and analyses to support strategic initiatives (pricing, sale force effectiveness, cost to serve etc)

**Planning and Budgeting**:

- Drives the continued development of the QRF and other planning and forecasting processes
- Consolidates inputs from the commercial teams and navigators for submission of QRF and Budget into the required platforms
- Measures forecast accuracy and highlights to the Navigators areas for improvement

**Key Activities**:
**Continuous** improvement**:

- Proactively seeks opportunities to improve and standardize data reports to gain efficiency
- Eliminates, simplifies, standardizes and automates outputs in a structured and consistent manner
- Shares best practice among the team and other regions
- Support the implementation of BI and other IT initiatives

**Collaboration**:

- Commercial navigators in the region
- ISC FP&A in the region
- Functional controlling
- Commercial FP&A analyst from other region
- Global Reporting and Analytics team

**Experience**:

- _You are curious, eager to learn and always searching for improvement opportunities (process wise)_
- _You have affinity for numbers and systems, and have strong analytical skills combined with a critical, but constructive, attitude_
- _Experience in building automated reports and models is a must; excellent financial and analytical skills_
- _strong HFM, ERP and BI systems experience_
- _Strong analytic skills and the ability to analyze, organize, summarize and articulate complex financial information for decision making_
- _Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, including ability to articulate recommendations in a concise and timely manner_
- _Able to prioritize and work with multiple supervisors_
- _Strong ‘can-do’ mentality and ‘drive’ to accomplish tasks in an environment with multiple stakeholders_
- _Self-starter, hands on mentality and team player_
- _Being able to make independent interpretation, draw conclusions and propose solutions_
- _Able to reduce complex and/or large volumes of data to a readable high level_
- _Accurate, organized and disciplined in order to achieve high quality output and to meet strict deadlines_
- Experience in ‘change management’ in a finance environment is preferred

**Education**:
Bachelor Degree of Accounting from reputable university

10-12 years’ experience as analyst or as controller in a business environment and/or functional area
- You are ambitious and see this function as part of your development to become an all
- round Finance professional in AkzoNobel._

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to b