Associate Finance Manager

This position will be responsible for providing financial analysis, insights, and business decision support to the assigned part of the Commercial team, including contract renewals, new business opportunities, and responses to competitive pressures, directly and through team management. In addition, the Associate Manager will play a key role in the development and analysis of a monthly Commercial forecast and monitoring the financial performance of customer accounts.

Provide team management and prioritization of resources in the analyst pool to support the markets in the Geo Cluster.. Key Result Areas include: achieving results with regards to delivering Commercial Gross Margin plan/forecast through critical thinking, collaboration, process improvement, and change management.

• Lead and support the customer teams during business planning by providing financial and business analysis; analyze customer plans to ensure financial expectations are achieved
• Investigate and provide understanding about Market/Cluster Performance, Outlook and Risk profile, through analysis and partnering with Commercial Teams.
• Provide decision support to Commercial Teams to help optimize Energizer’s sales and profit growth
• Manage the Trade Spend funds to optimize ROI and ensure financial goals are met
• Provide financial analysis for major proposals affecting the business; e.g. contract renewals, line reviews and competitive pressures
• Support delivery of system & process improvements through collaboration with COE and engagement with the commercial team.
• Support Cluster/Market Commercial teams during business planning by providing financial and business insight
• Assist in the preparation of the Category, Channel & Large Customer’s Annual Business Plan and Forecast
• Manage Category, Channel & Large Customer P&Ls from sales to gross margin
• Ensure the absolute and quality of margin is driven through effective direction on TI ROI, and margin management.
• Proactively review profit initiatives and risk mitigation activities
• Support the team with adopting a curious mindset that looks both internally and externally