Senior Brand Finance Analyst CEE (1 year contract)

Please note this is a 12-month fixed term contract

Spin Master is a leading global children's entertainment company, creating exceptional play experiences through it’s three creative centres: Toys, Entertainment and Digital Games. With distribution in over 100 countries, Spin Master is best known for award-winning brands PAW Patrol®, Bakugan®, Kinetic Sand®, Air Hogs®, Hatchimals®, Rubik’s Cube® and GUND®, and is the global toy licensee for other popular properties.

What will you work on?

The Senior Brand Finance Analyst CEE (Central & Eastern Europe), will ensure that budgeting and forecasting is accurate and timely, along with providing reporting and decision support to the commercial teams.

Being responsible for the CEE market, the Senior Brand Finance Analyst will be a key contributor to the quarterly forecasting and monthly performance tracking processes, working with both finance and non-finance colleagues across Europe to further understanding of financial performance. Whilst supporting decision making on new products the individual will gain a strong insight into the product line up and the levers which can be used to influence profitability and cash flow.

The Senior Brand Finance Analyst CEE will be expected to work at the office in Bratislava a minimum of three days a week.

How will you create impact?

• Together with Sales & Marketing; own, maintain, and ensure accuracy of the CEE Toy Line Plans (TLPs) and of all TLP rates.
• Support the VCA (Vendor Cost Approval) process with any Europe specific TLPs.
• Provide support & training for the Automated TLP tool to Sales and Marketing teams.
• Ensure all price lists are created and validated, market lead approvals obtained, and accurate pricing is set up in the systems (SAP) on a timely basis.
• Implement processes and tools to track, report and plan for total marketing spend for the CEE market.
• Preparation of CEE P&L budgets and forecasts working closely with Sales, Marketing, Europe FP&A, Financial Reporting and Operations Finance teams.
• Provide commercial finance partner support to the CEE Sales and Marketing teams.
• Model financial scenarios and P&Ls for new products and/or initiatives in the market. Support business decisions relating to new tenders, allowances agreements (return on trade investment in marketing vs allowances), demand plans, and sales agents’ efficiency analysis, etc.
• Develop a solid understanding of the profit levers for the CEE market. Understand the operational & commercial limitations and advise business stakeholders and senior management on how to maximise contribution from both brands and customers.
• Actively engage in productivity driving initiatives for Marketing investments, measuring return on investment and influencing decision making based on solid financial recommendations (including pre- and post- investment analysis to determine and validate ROI hurdles).
• Provide overall market and brand profitability and performance tracking, reporting and analysis.
• Responsibility for the management of all sales allowance costs for the market and for ensuring that the team have control, reporting and understanding of all allowance costs by customer and by calendar year.
• Communicating any changes in allowances (terms and O&A) to Credit & Collection, Finance Managers and the Senior Manager Brand Finance Europe.
• Carry out ad hoc reporting and analysis as needed.
• Drive continuous improvements to deliver more efficient and effective business support to the CEE market.
• Support any local and global projects as required.
• Act as advisor to the Sales and Marketing Directors on Brand Finance matters.

How will you fit into the team?
The Senior Brand Finance Analyst CEE reports to the Senior Brand Finance Analyst CEE with a dotted reporting line to the Sales and Marketing leads specific to the supported market.
What are your skills and experience?

• Graduate or Masters Degree in Accounting, Finance or similar.
• Qualified Finance Professional with a minimum experience of 3-6 years preferably in the FMCG, Toy or Fashion industries.
• Expert level of working with Excel, SAP, SAP BI, BOBJ and BPC.
• Excellent in data gathering and interpretation.
• Evidence of successful business support experience and collaborative partnering skill to influence up and down the organisation.
• Integrity, honesty and understanding of data privacy standards.
• Excellent communication skills, rigorous, organised and able to work collaboratively with commercial and finance teams within Europe and Internationally.
• Excellent mathematical and analytical skills.
• Thorough understanding of business principles and practices.
• Superior attention to detail with excellent follow-up.
• Strong organisational skills, detail oriented, and a self-starter.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Team player with proven ability to work well under pressure and deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects.
• Problem solving skills with the ability to seek alternative solutions.
• Teamwork – showing a commitment to teamwork and collaboration.
• Integrity – fostering trust and a positive work environment.
• Innovation – bringing creativity to the workplace.
• Fluent English skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to travel for business purposes as required.

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What you can expect from us:

Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

• Growth and Career Opportunities
• Flexible Work Hours
• Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
• Comprehensive Benefits
• Other fun Perks!

What’s it like to work here?

Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making; though our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.

Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.

We do appreciate all interest; however only those selected for interview will be contacted.