About the role

• The Trade Spend Manager is responsible for ensuring that the budget is produced timely and controlled throughout the financial cycle.
• This includes overseeing internal controls compliance, budget tracking & analysis, risk escalation and management reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Performs the monthly trade spend overview to accrual reconciliation and drives reporting across the organization
• Owns budget reviews and analysis by customer, consolidation at a cluster level
• Delivers management reporting on budget status, risks and opportunities
• Owns trade spend management process across system, governance and reporting
• Keeps track of trade spend accruals, claims received and processed as actuals and conducts monthly audits of system entries against the governance protocols
• Ensures training of related internal and external teams on the process, adherence to standard operating procedures applicable
• Owns price setup and maintenance process
• Overseas and governs the trade spend management system
• Super-user and local administrator for the system
• Local liaison to regional system admin teams for trouble shooting
• Master data maintenance for seamless running of the platform
• Annual budget maintenance – annual agreements, trade terms, fixed & variable spend allocations for all Cluster/Customer/Activity/Brand combinations

Qualifications and skills

Required

• Bachelor’s degree from a reputable university in the fields of Finance, Accounting, Business Administration
• Relevant certification/accreditations in Finance field e.g CPA, ACCA, CFA, CIFA are a plus
• Minimum 5 years in trade marketing, finance or sales function
• Written & verbal fluency in French and English is a plus
• Experience in trade spend management
• Ability to think analytically
• Strong influencing and communication skills
• Experience in FMCG/Consumer Healthcare environment, working across complex organizational structures