Brown-Forman Corporation

Senior Finance Analyst - Korea

Korea, Seoul Full time

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We believe great people build great brands. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

Meaningful Work From Day One

The Senior Finance Analyst provides support and analytical insights to the organization with strong working relationships with Marketing, Commercial, Supply Chain and Accounting. Responsible for Korea’s financial planning and forecasting and operating expense management to drive business decisions and strategic resource allocation.

What You Can Expect

Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management

  • Lead annual, quarterly and rolling financial planning and forecasting processes by providing in-depth analysis and collaborative support to Commercial and Marketing in building and presenting strategic plans, with a specific focus on optimizing pricing strategies and trade spend efficiency. 

  • Monitor monthly performance against the target and provide analysis of monthly business results with clear, compelling communication of key drivers of performance trends and potential risks and opportunities 

  • Prepare meaningful and actionable reports/presentations relating to actuals, budget and forecasts

  • Responsible for planning, data integrity, variance analysis and management of reports with a focus on Brand Expense, COGs, and SG&A

  • Analyze variances in channel and customer volume, pricing, and discounts and explain their drivers.

  • Identify and explain the specific volume/mix/price drivers impacting the bottom line.

Financial Systems & Modeling 

  • Act as the primary architect for the design, implementation, and continuous upgrade of financial modeling tools (e.g. link input from other functions to P&L calculations)

  • Ensure assumption governance and sound organization by maintaining a centralized "source of truth" for all global and local assumptions to ensure transparency and consistency

  • Proactively partner with BI resource to secure accurate content in the area of pricing and discounts

  • Support in improving internally used BI tools (esp. KAMS, Newton)

  • Responsible for master data maintenance and data integrity in planning & forecasting process - SAP/KAMS

Business Partnering & Decision Support

  • Provide financial base for operative decisions and strategic guidelines through profitability analysis on product and customer level

  • Be the first point of contact for Marketing - Brand Expense budget controlling

  • Support Ad-hoc analysis, special projects and support in all other areas of Finance

  • Represent Finance function in special, cross-functional projects

  • Support Finance Manager in daily basis Finance activities

What You Bring to the Table

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, finance, or related field preferred.

  • Strong commercial & finance acumen and background with 5+ years of FP&A experience.

  • Experience in the alcoholic beverage and/or FMCG industry is a plus.

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Korean and English.

  • SAP knowledge and advanced proficiency in Google Workspace and Microsoft Office.

What Makes You Unique

  • Ability to influence, lead and build relationships cross-functionally (Commercial, Marketing, Supply Chain and Accounting).

  • Imparting finance know-how and mindset to the Commercial and Marketing functions to ensure that they are aligned to the company’s financial goals.

  • Bringing finance “closer to the people” by communicating financials in a manner that is relevant and understandable to the different functions.

  • Problem-solving & strategic agility.

Who We Are

We believe great people build great brands. And we know there is Nothing Better in the Market than a career at Brown-Forman. Being a part of Brown-Forman means you will grow both personally and professionally. You will have the opportunity to solve problems, seize opportunities, and generate bold ideas. You will belong to a place where teamwork matters and where you are encouraged to bring your best self to work.

What We Offer

Total Rewards at Brown-Forman is designed to engage our people to ensure sustainable and profitable growth for generations to come. As a premium spirits company, we offer equitable pay structures for individual and company performance alongside a premium employee experience. We offer a range of premium benefits that reflect our company values and meet the needs of our diverse workforce.

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Requisition Type:

Employee

Management Level:

Professional

Global Job Level:

P6

Number of Openings Available:

1