Strategy & Program Delivery Analyst at Philip Morris International

The S&PD Analyst needs to have extensive business knowledge required to translate business inputs into financial actions for the company by:

• Contributing insights to the allocation of investments
•  Enable beneficial investment decisions across all commercial areas

Your ‘day to day’

• Commercial Partnering & Support for budget management and forecasting
•  Maintain the allocation structure for commercial as it relates to cost centres (CC) and work breakdown structures (WBS) ensuring the Authorized Signatory Matrix is updated timeously.
•  Ensured aligned forecasted budget spend for commercial as outlined via the Integrated Consumer Plan (ICP)
•  Develop, enhance, and maintain the commercial finance database relating to actuals, rolling forecast and original budget
•  Be a key liaison between commercial and support departments
•  Monthly tracking, analysis and reporting of business and overheads commercial spend
•  Prepare input database for Tagetik and ensure forecasts are updated for projects and overheads during rolling forecast cycle

Project Management Office support

•  Track Project ROI
•  Manage the IT/Capex request process within the market
•  Ensure depreciation is correctly accounted for in forecasting cycles
•  Consolidate and analyse project FTE to assist in the effective use of people resources across full project portfolio with close collaboration with the Commercial Program Manager (CPM)
•  PMO Process Efficiency Custodian (PMI PM tools, templates etc.)
•  Contribute to better portfolio visibility by ensuring accurate creation and management of projects in ePPM through data quality audits, provide support and training to project managers on the use of ePPM
•  Support with the preparation for Project Portfolio Health Reviews (Local & Regional)

Who we are looking for

•  Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Management Accounting
•  Preference will be given to Professionals on the path towards CIMA/CA(SA)/ACCA or Relevant Honours or Postgraduate Qualifications
•  Minimum 2 years of Commercial/Marketing Finance experience in large FMCG/CPG businesses

Skills/competencies and experience:

•  Strong foundation of business knowledge
•  Experience in in-depth financial analysis, utilizing of data for story telling
•  Good understanding of budgeting and reporting (preferably in multi-national environment)
•  Project Management experience would be an advantage - experience on ServiceNow or similar project management tools would be an advantage
•  Advanced Excel & PowerPoint skills is essentional