Manage trade spend, conduct KPI reporting, support financial planning, and ensure alignment with sales pricing requests, providing analysis as needed.
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Responsibilities:*Please note, visa sponsorship is not available for this position now or in the future.
Trade Spend Management:
- work with the sales & A/R team in clearing customer deductions; flag any invalid deductions and work with brokers/external auditors in disputing these invalid deductions
- maintain different reports/models for trade spend;
- Monthly TBM (trade spend) Ledger Reconciliation
Lead monthly Cost Center Reviews with cross functional teams:
- Monthly Data Extraction & Validation for completeness and accuracy
- Leading monthly business reviews with Cost Center Owners
- Performing deep variance and trend analysis vs PY, vs budget vs forecast and explain drivers of over/underspend
- Identifying risks, cost reduction opportunities, and needed accruals
- Documenting outcomes and follow-ups
- Collaborating across functions for completeness and accuracy
- Supporting OP/Budget and Forecasting using Cost Center insights
KPI Reporting:
- Maintain the monthly report for Customer Penalties
- Prepare customer Quarterly Sales rebates
- Pricing: validate any price changes sent by the Sales team to CIC against the master data
- Participate in month-end process
- Support the Finance Director & Sales Controller with any ad-hoc requests
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
- 3–5 years of experience in financial analysis, preferably in a sales or commercial finance environment
- Strong Excel skills; experience with SAP
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Detail-oriented and critical thinking abilities
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting Sales, Marketing, or Commercial teams
Experience in P&L analysis
Knowledge of the trade spend process (CPG)
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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