# Finance Analyst

**Company**: Red Bull North America
**Location**: Santa Monica, California
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: permanent
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Beverage

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## Description

We are seeking a Finance Analyst to support our financial sales forecast by SKU for RBNA S&OP purposes. The successful candidate will act as a business partner for the sales department, providing analysis and recommendations to senior leadership.

**Responsibilities:**

### Financial Sales & GSV - Forecast & Reporting

- Provide daily financial sales reporting to the organisation, including senior leadership.

- Assist in the monthly S&OP forecasting cycle, aligning with stakeholders from Trade Finance, Trade Sales Planning, and Operations.

- Develop a forecast of total RBNA Financial Sales by SKU, month, and route to market.

- Monitor portfolio performance for potential issues such as stockouts or high inventory counts.

- Forecast Gross Sales Value for all RBNA and ensure data entry during planning cycles.

- Provide weekly GSV updates to trade finance leadership.

### Distribution & HQ - Reporting & Analysis

- Provide reporting to the distribution team on DP billbacks and support with ad hoc questions.

- Monitor discrepancies between DP requested billbacks and RBNA's calculated billbacks.

- Provide weekly dispute reporting to Key Account teams.

- Collaborate with operations to ensure submission of New SKU Launch Proposals to HQ.

- Support planning and reporting of travel and entertainment expenses across Sales HQ departments.

### Business Partnership

- Act as a contact for business partners, challenging them when necessary.

- Work closely with various contacts, providing suggestions and insights.

- Prepare scenarios and simulations with business partner inputs.

- Support Sales Teams and Channel leads in budget management.

### Planning & Forecasting

- Responsible for data entry of total RBNA Revenue.

- Assist in Business Plan/Revised Estimate data collection and data entry.

- Coordinate timings and input needed during the budget process.

- Aggregate individual plans to a total plan.

- Support and challenge T&E budget owners during planning.

- Prepare year-to-go best estimates.

**Requirements:**

- 2-3 years of experience as a financial analyst.

- Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills.

- Strong communication and organisational skills.

- Ability to work autonomously across multiple functions.

- Experience in converting analysis into insights.

- Understanding of sales drivers and connections between data and sales execution.

- Beverage or CPG experience preferred.

**Travel:** 0-10% **Employment Type:** Permanent **Benefits:** Eligible

## Skills

### Required
- Financial analysis
- Forecasting
- Budgeting
- MS Excel
- PowerPoint
- Communication
- Organisation

### Nice to have
- Beverage industry experience
- CPG experience

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