Senior Manager, Marketing Finance

OB PURPOSE
As a member of the B&W North America Finance, this role will support the NA B&W Marketing team, reporting to the Head of Finance for Beauty & Wellbeing North America and will be based out of Hoboken, New Jersey.

The essence of this role is to provide guidance and financial insights to the Marketing team on innovation business cases. This role will span responsibilities of investor board, BMI management, Media performance partnering, and strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 
The role provides great exposure to senior stakeholders, on a broad range of strategic topics and at the same time, high level of independence to build agenda and development plan.

The Senior Manager works closely with senior leadership of the North America B&W business, covering the following main areas:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (R&D, Marketing) to evaluate the financial viability of new product development and innovations.
• Provide financial insights and analysis to support decision-making in innovation projects, ensuring alignment with the company’s strategic goals and ROI targets.
• Monitor the financial performance of innovation initiatives, highlighting key risks and opportunities to stakeholders.
• Develop and track key financial metrics related to innovation performance, including P&L impact, margin analysis, and forecast accuracy.
• Collaborate with the Marketing team on driving BMI investments that would generate better ROI and provide budget controls on CIP investments.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of relevant finance experience within a corporate setting
• A degree in accounting or a professional accounting qualification (CPA, CA, etc.)
• Analytical thinking / problem solving ability.
• Ability to combine multiple and different data points to draw conclusions
• Apply systematic approach to identify and eliminate root causes
• Sees problems through to a complete solution beyond the immediate next step

Business acumen

• Understanding of the FMCG industry and the challenges
• Rapidly absorbs new information, knowledge and applies new techniques, technology, and procedures

IT and Communication Skills

• Excellent level of computer literacy (incl. Excel, PowerPoint & SAP) and numeracy skills
• Professional communication skills for all levels of the organisation
• Motivation and drive
• Ambitious to hit personal targets and standards
• Act to remove basic blocks to progress without waiting for others to do it
• Team Working
• Demonstrate commitment to the team in helping it achieve its goals and developing team members
• Proactively share best practice, ideas, and insights with colleagues

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