Seven-Up Bottling Company Ltd is one of the largest manufacturing companies in Nigeria, producing and distributing some of the nation’s most- loved beverages in the country like; Pepsi, 7Up, Mirinda, Teem, Mountain Dew, H2oH!, Lipton Ice Tea and Aquafina premium drinking water. SBC has recently entered into Home & Personal Care category with the 2SURE brand and launched its first product, a Hand & Surface Sanitizer. Seven Up boasts of nine bottling plants with state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities strategically located across various regions in the country.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- Seven-Up Bottling Company is currently recruiting for an FP&A analyst who will support the finance team.
Responsibilities
- Build financial reports that communicate consolidated and practice-level performance and analyse underlying trends across the regions.
- Prepare presentations in support of board and shareholder meetings, monthly/quarterly senior leadership meetings and various strategic committees of the company
- Prepare and present variance analysis that compares historical performance and forecasted budget with actual results
- Assist with month-end close processes liaising with accounting to assemble accurate financials for management reporting
- Partner with Business Intelligence team to create customized financial reports on dashboard systems to monitor business activities, develop operational benchmarks and automate manual processes
- Evaluate and forecast the financial viability and financial impact of expansion opportunities and new initiatives.
- Partner with Information Technology professionals to enable implementation of reporting systems and processes across Finance
- Act as a finance business partner and subject matter expert across the business
- Support the Commercial Team to ensure that their strategies lead to Net Sales Revenue and GP growth through the business planning and forecasting processes.
- Provide analytical support in the evaluation of all commercial initiatives in terms of product launches, pricing promotional activities, and direct marketing expenditure.
- Support to drive initiatives in order to improve Gross Profit (Pricing, Promo optimization, Mix optimization, product profitability).
- Prepare in-depth and insightful financial analysis and decision support to the sales and category team including identification of opportunities and risks with commentaries/analytics.
- Evaluation and monitoring of trade discounts Incentive proposals/programs to drive promotional effectiveness/profitability.
- Provision of robust analysis and insight into pack profitability and portfolio management and preparation of value chain analysis for existing and potential products.
Requirements
- 3yrs+ experience in financial planning and analysis department.
- Familiarity with Excel.
- Good understanding of systems and core accounting concepts.
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Minimum of Bachelors in Finance, Accounting, or related fields.
- Membership of Chartered Accountant (ICAN or a similar professional body) is an
- added advantage
- Good command of spreadsheets and Excel Functions, Formulas, Pivot Tables.
- Data Analysis
- Experience working with sizeable ERPs like Dynamics NAV, SAP.
- Continuous learning mindset
Application Closing Date
14th March, 2025.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online