Job Description

We’re looking for a Financial Sales Controller to join the Red Bull Japan team, and if you’re passionate about what you do, highly analytical, and able to identify risks and provide solutions, we want you!  You will add value to the business through establishing efficiencies in Controlling, generate financial reports and provide analysis, commentary and invaluable insights to the business. You will deliver month-end closing analysis and insight of commercial decisions, while ensuring group controlling guidelines compliance is maintained.

The Sales Controller is responsible for the financial partnership with Red Bull Japan’s Sales teams, through the preparation, presentation and influence of valuable analytical insights which encourage smarter, more informed decision making. The purpose of the role is to ensure financial stewardship of the Business through engaging in cross functional decisions which will ultimately impact the profitability and cash flow of the organization.

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

• • Guarantees full compliance with the Group Controlling guideline
  • Ensures a timely distribution of financial information (plan & actual) to every budget holder by sending out reports, by allowing system access and by presenting the information in regular meetings
  • Promotes efficiency in Controlling in order to minimise time spent for report generation and increases time for analysis, commenting and insights sharing.
  • Supports the establishment of a true bottom up planning process and the development of a local planning calendar based on the group planning timetable allowing for sufficient review time and feedback cycles.
  • Measures and reviews the cost/benefit ratio of proposed commercial activities
  • Builds a solid relationship with budget holders based on mutual respect and trust
  • Manages fact and knowledge based, spreads and exchanges information

• • Coordinates the monthly accrual process following the cost revenue matching principle.
  • Ensures master data quality and verifies the consistency of the customer, product and internal order hierarchies.
  • Provide accurate and timely analysis & commentaries of variances between actual and the forecast/prior year, to Senior Controller, Finance Director.

• • Responsible for financial management reporting from various sources including BI (Business Intelligence) and Hyperion Financial Management
  • Indirectly responsible for maintenance and training of business critical tools to budget owners, including CPM Tool (Customer Profitability Management) and BI Input Forms and BI Reporting
  • Gives clear reporting of customer performance vs the Business Plan or Revised Estimate, via outputs from CPM Tool to the respective budget owners

• • Coordinates the Business Plan(BP) /Revised Estimate(RE) data collection and data entry for responsible departments.
  • Communicate timings and required inputs to budget owners during the budgeting and revised estimates process
  • Verifies submitted estimations from the budget owners. Supports the budget owners for their accurate forecasting and best investment allocations. Challenges to the budget owners if necessary, to achieve company’s financial goals.
  • Provide accurate and timely analysis & commentaries of variances between BP/RE and actual/prior forecast/prior year, to Senior Controller, Finance Director.

• • Responsible for financial management reporting from various sources including BI (Business Intelligence) and Hyperion Financial Management
  • Indirectly responsible for maintenance and training of business critical tools to budget owners, including CPM Tool (Customer Profitability Management) and BI Input Forms and BI Reporting
  • Gives clear reporting of customer performance vs the Business Plan or Revised Estimate, via outputs from CPM Tool to the respective budget owners.

• • Acts as a Finance Business Partner with Sales Department
  • Works closely with the various partners, has a service mentality but also challenges them, asks questions, understands their customer and priorities.
  • Know all the trade terms (On & Off invoice) of customers, their budgets, and the customer P&L
  • Prepares trade term impact simulations, challenges assumptions and profitability
  • Works closely with the key account managers to calculate promotional ROI
  • Matches POS/VISIT placement plans to budget, update on placement status.

EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

• 5+ years’ demonstrated experience in a commercial finance role within an evolving business.
• Basic Finance and Accounting knowledge is a must
• Work experience in foreign-capital company in FMCG industry will be an advantage.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills with internal stakeholders. Ability to hold people to set recommendations, guidelines, or processes
• Ability to handle ambiguity and multiple priorities
• High attention to detail and willingness to be hands on
• Advanced excel and modelling skills. Proficient MS Powerpoint knowledge. Familiarity with any integrated business analysis tool is a strong plus (SAP BI / Hyperion/ HFM)
• Self-motivated and directed. Be able to work under pressure in a fast paced team environment

• Travel 0-10%

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