Job Description

Be co-pilot and sparring partner to the Consumer Marketing Management Team, creating visibility and control of budgets and investment decisions, evaluating the product portfolio, events pipeline, athletes portfolio and media campaigns, reviewing compliance to accounting guidelines and system setup/requirements, and creating cross functional partnerships that unite teams to deliver of our long term strategy. Lead, manage, and coordinate the translation of local planning and analysis requirements into digestible, actionable, engaging deadlines for all business functions to deliver accountability of an interconnected and accurate business plan. Stakeholders will range from local budget owners up to Directors, but also regional contacts, and HQ.

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

• Guarantees full compliance with the Group Controlling guideline.
• Designs the system setup, to perfectly mirror the responsibilities in the organization.
• 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.
• Verifies the overall costs and revenue recognition cut-off for RBMH and RBUK
• 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 deliverables across Commercial Finance, and consolidates and circulates reporting packs with commentary to support the Controlling team.
• 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.
• Carries out ongoing evaluation of product portfolio performance.
• Align, prepare, evaluate pre and post NPD launch proposals with business partners.
• Manage seamless cross functional setup of NPD skus in preparation for forecasting and launch.
• Support and evaluate business cases - past and future.
• Performs ad hoc analysis when required.
• Coordinates, reviews, inclusively challenges, and aligns Consumer Marketing budget forecasts, 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.
• Aligned with the Controlling team, translate the Red Bull Group planning timetable into an annual, locally relevant project for all Business Partnering functions (Energy Drink, Organics, Monsoon Valley) that delivers clarity of deliverables and deadlines, an engaged accountable business, and an interconnected, accurate business plan in as simple a way as possible.
• Lead the design, implementation, and execution of this annual financial planning cycle/project.
• This includes but is not limited to: local calendar, communication strategy and execution, aligned deadlines + actions, business briefing, ongoing cross functional reviews, Region/HQ alignments, post cycle debriefs and 360 feedback to continuously improve.
• Support Tax & Accounting team on the Balance Sheet planning with Marketing Accrual

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent, QBE).
• 3-4 years’ experience in controlling, FP&A, finance business partner role in consumer goods.
• Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent, QBE).
• Fluent written and spoken English
• 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-organized 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 behaviors of Red Bull with a strong affinity to the brand.
• IT literate, excellent knowledge of the following tools: MS Excel, SAP BI, Hyperion