Commercial Finance Analyst Job at The Hershey Company (London)

Job Description

The Finance Analyst role supports the Europe team by driving accurate and insightful reporting across innovations (new product development), tracking and analysing trade promotion spend across markets, and managing operational pricing processes for distributor channels. The analyst collaborates closely with commercial, innovations, business development, marketing and supply chain teams to ensure financial transparency, optimize promotional investments, and maintain pricing integrity across new product launches, existing portfolios and strategic initiatives.

Job Responsibility

Drives all financial analysis and related communications at Europe level for Innovations from Gate 1 to post launch
Prepares analysis and financials for review before finalising presentation slides for Europe Gate meetings
Works closely with commercial team during each project, oversees healthiness and feasibility of overall innovation agenda
Contributes to Strat Plan and Plan process through Innovation building block
Initiates post launch evaluations process to feed learnings into future innovations
Works with commercial / marketing team to ascertain impact of innovations on existing portfolio by performing cannibalisation analysis using market & competition data
Analyse, monitor, and reconcile promotional investments made with retail and distributor partners
Validate spends against budgets, ensuring accurate accruals and claims, identifying variances, and partnering with commercial teams
Maintain robust tracking systems, support month-end close activities, and provide actionable insights to improve forecasting and financial transparency across diverse market dynamics
Introduce a proper ROI evaluation of promo and DME activities to ensure optimal spending in market including evaluating competition spends and activities with volume uplifts to determine the right level of TP spends
Supports the maintenance of the distributor price build framework to ensure pricing accuracy across systems and operational workflows
Assists in validating pricing inputs, coordinating updates with cross-functional teams
Performing pricing analysis across key markets and SKU’s (including competition) to ensure the right level of competitive pricing is achieved
Demonstrates strong business partnering skills with Europe cross-functional teams
Acts as a strategic partner across Innovation and Trade Spend management
Signals risks, identify opportunities with Europe team
Is responsible for actively & constantly seeking improvement and simplification of business processes including financial to increase time and resources efficiency
When necessary, undertakes, coordinates, and delivers Europe regional level projects

Requirements

BA/BS Degree in Finance / Economics / Accounting / Business
3-4 years of experience in a related field
commercial finance and management accounting experience
excellent skill level in financial modelling and Excel
good understanding of Management Accounting
excellent Teamwork, Collaboration and Business Partnering skills
high quality level of Curiosity, Initiative Taking, Status Quo Challenging, Conflict Resolution, Sensemaking in Ambiguous situations
potential for growth and taking responsibility

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