PZ Cussons

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Support the North America business unit through the provision of robust analysis to support decision making
• Ensure that the core finance processes are delivered accurately and on time
• Carry out new accounting processes, resulting from the business transition
• Calculation of manual monthly operating and marketing accruals and propose journals to post these values into the ledgers
• Weekly/Monthly cash allocation process (self billing, debtors allocation and tradex)
• Initial reconciliations of Debtor, Creditor and accrual balances
• Initial P&L reconciliations
• Support Global team with performance reporting including weekly and monthly tasks, including EPOS
• Own marketing spend trackers, controls and forecasting process for multiple cost centres
• Manage month end close process for marketing spend including system administration
• Manage trade promotions process including system reporting and liaising with commercial teams and other finance teams
• Manage SKU pricing administration process and maintenance and controls for customer pricing with Emerson
• Analysis of marketing spend and trade promotions to ensure performance objectives are being met
• Ad hoc analysis and other tasks as appropriate to support the Senior Commercial Finance Manager and Finance Director

Finance Analyst