Key Activities and Responsibilities:

• Serve as the Finance Co-pilot, partnering with Sales Leadership and Account teams to drive profitable sales growth in the customer accounts.
• Lead the financial planning, analysis and presentations to Sales leader of budgets, forecasts, long range plans and monthly performance reports and manages account and channel P&L’s to deliver optimal sales and profit delivery.
• Partner with Sales team to obtain and maintain an in-depth knowledge of customer and channel strategies, risks and opportunities, promotional activities and financial metrics. Recommends how to optimally deploy the sales specific resources to best meet the needs of the business
• Proactively identify and analyze business issues and opportunities, including recommendations for future actions. Initiate, lead, and manage projects which will improve current business results and deliver against strategy.
• Develop and implement robust control processes and procedures to ensure sales controllable costs are in line with the Finance Manual

Requirements:

• University degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
• Minimum 7 years’ relevant experience, in MNC preferred
• Strong at financial analysis, provide insights to Sales leaders at different markets
• Strong people leader, able to lead a team across different locations

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With more than $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN’S®, and COCOAVIA®. Mars Associates proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™.  Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our more than 115,000 Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive. We believe the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. For more information about Mars, please visit www.mars.com.