Interim Commercial Controller - 12 months

• Give support to all business teams through providing visibility on financial information and understanding, ensuring pertinent business decisions.
• Assist in the budget process, coordinate and assist the sales and marketing managers in building their budgets by customers and brands.
• Assist with the tracking of monthly and quarterly closing and reporting, of the budget (and revised budget) process; analysis ok variations vs budget and prior year.
• Prepare and analyse Reporting for relevant departments: NS, Margins; mix analysis, etc by Cot and brand;
• Proactively generate relevant information and analysis, supporting Sales and Marketing teams while helping decision making.
• Monitoring of Daily sales, tracking of R&O for landing with the teams.
• Ensure compliance with applicable financial reporting standards and policies.

• Daily sales report & weekly report to International
• Monitoring of sales landing and key insights during the month. Gathering info from teams, lead weekly sales meeting and provide insights to Regional management
• Reports/dashboards with actuals to provide detailed financial info (sales, GTN and margins) by channel, customer and brand.
• Elaboration and automatisation of P&L by center and category for ECI, main customer of the company.
• Budget building in detail (annual & quarterly) and provide it to Finance team for system loading.
• Provide business insights regarding 3 months sales projections to Regional Shared Service Center (RDC) for Cash flow estimations.
• Customer planning elaboration with teams. Providing tool for completion, gathering info and loading into Dashboards in order to have comparisons with actuals.
• Monitoring of GtN with sales & finance in order to have control of it.
• Helping building tools for business tracking such as: initiatives tracking, Ideal Assortment accomplishment by customer/channel; Power BI report for Sell Out, rebates tracking by customer for Traditional channel.
• Involved in Annual Business Plan meetings (or any other meeting) with customers: supporting all info preparation
• Supporting Marketing manager in pricing decisions by providing tools and analysis
• Profitability check process regarding Promotion, product launches and customer opening: definition of process, creation of tools (P&L, profit pool), review and challenge with the teams and approval prior to Sales Director.
• Helping Management team in Business Reviews (with Top Management) info preparation.
• Leading or being involved in ad hoc project such as Ideal Assortment definition, customer clusterisation, redesign of Year End Rebates, Calculation of Full Potential of the company; Agile Project for Carrefour.
• Being the point of contact for any other controlling/analytical issue within the business.
• Support and giving trainings to the whole business on understanding and utilisation of company BI (mainly the cubes). Helping IT department in issue identification and maintenance of the cubes.

• Bachelor's Degree in finance or accounting from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in accounting, finance, controllership or audit, in multinational companies, ideally FMCG.
• Big 4 accounting firm audit experience.
• Ability to anticipate, identify, and resolve complex accounting and reporting matters.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills, focus on Team working including the ability to work collaboratively at all levels within a matrix organisation.
• Proactive and accuracy seeker. Interest on understanding the insights of the business.
• Ability to effectively prioritise multiple tasks and deliver in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word and Power Point.
• Hyperion/HFM and Movex M3 ERP (SAP also ok), Power BI.
• Languages: Spanish, Fluent in English.

Michael Page