Red Bull

Financial Analyst, Central Planning

Red Bull • $70K — $95K *
Santa Monica, CA 90405In-Person
Food & Beverages
Less than 5 years of experience
4 days ago
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2-3 years of experience as a financial analyst
  • Proficient in MS Excel and PowerPoint, with adaptability to new ERP systems
  • Strong communication skills and highly organized
  • Ability to independently navigate across multiple functions
  • Skilled in converting analysis into actionable insights
  • Understanding of sales drivers and data connections to sales execution
  • Preferred experience in beverage or consumer packaged goods (CPG) industries

Responsibilities

  • Provide daily financial sales reports to the organization and senior leadership
  • Assist with monthly S&OP forecasting in collaboration with Senior stakeholders
  • Develop SKU-level financial sales forecasts and actively monitor portfolio performance
  • Deliver reporting and analysis to distribution teams on discrepancies and billbacks
  • Act as a business partner, offering insights and challenging assumptions when necessary
  • Manage the planning and reporting of travel and entertainment expenses across HQ departments
  • Support the budget management process and ensure adherence to financial goals

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Permanent position with growth potential
  • Minimal travel required (0-10%)
  • Collaborative work environment in Santa Monica, California
  • Opportunity to learn and develop within the role
Full Job Description
The Finance Analyst will be heavily involved in supporting our financial sales forecast by SKU for RBNA S&OP purposes and will be responsible for the revenue forecast associated with it. The Finance Analyst will act as a business partner for the sales department, will be responsible for performing analysis and providing recommendations to the VP and SR Manager of Trade Finance. Given the high interaction with Senior leadership, the Finance Analyst will play a big role in in supporting our Sales team strategy as well as pro-actively monitoring and steering the SKU level volume forecast. In addition, the Finance Analyst will support the planning and reporting of travel and entertainment expenses across several Sales HQ departments, as well as assist in developing New SKU Launch Proposals and ensuring alignment for HQ submission. They will provide reporting support to our distribution team on their DP billbacks and disputes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:
  • FINANCIAL SALES & GSV - FORECAST & REPORTING
    Provide daily reporting of our financial sales to the entire organization including senior leadership.
    Assist the monthly S&OP forecasting cycle, which includes alignment with Senior stakeholders from Trade Finance, Trade Sales Planning, and Operations (both Supply and Demand Planning).
    Align and consult with cross functional teams on planning portfolio innovation, discontinuation, and overall performance
    Develop a forecast of our total RBNA Financial Sales plan by SKU, month, route to market in support of data entry
    Actively monitor performance of our portfolio for DOH, potential out of stocks, or high inventory counts
    Responsible for forecasting our Gross Sales Value for all RBNA and ensuring data entry during planning cycles
    Provide weekly GSV updates in comparison to our latest plan to trade finance leadership and highlight any basic exposure risk
  • DISTRBUTION & HQ - REPORTING & ANALYSIS
    Provide reporting to our distribution team on their DP billbacks and support with ad hoc questions and guidance on potential discrepancies
    Monitor closely discrepancies between DP requested billbacks and RBNA's calculated billbacks
    Provide weekly dispute reporting to our Key Account teams for visibility throughout the month
    Collaborate with operations team to ensure submission of our New SKU Launch Proposals to HQ by stated deadlines
    Support the planning and reporting of travel and entertainment expenses across several Sales HQ departments, working closely with the teams on reclasses and risk & opportunities to their plans
  • BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP
    Act as a contact for our business partners and can challenge them when necessary
    Work closely with our various contacts, has a service mentality but also challenges them, asks questions, gives suggestions and insights
    Prepare scenarios and simulations with the inputs from our business partners
    Support the Sales Teams and Channel leads in budget management and ensure overall budget adherence
    Perform ad hoc calculations and insights to drive performance with the business
  • PLANNING & FORECASTING
    Responsible for the data entry of our total RBNA Revenue
    Assist in the Business Plan/Revised Estimate data collection and data entry
    Coordinate timings and input needed during the budget process
    Aggregate/consolidate the individual plans to a total plan
    Support and challenge the T&E budget owners during the planning process
    Prepares year-to-go best estimates to avoid risk as much as possible.
    Assist the Sr Manager in managing any variances to the agreed upon BP/FRE/SRE targets
    Ensure T&E costs are properly loaded into controlling systems


EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

  • EXPERIENCE
  • 2 - 3 years of experience as financial analyst
  • Above average with MS Excel, PowerPoint and willingness to learn new ERP systems
  • Very strong communication skills and highly organized
  • Ability to work across multiple functions autonomously
  • Ability to convert analysis into insights
  • Understand sales drivers and connections between data and sales execution
  • Beverage or CPG experience preferred
  • High performer with desire to learn
  • Travel 0-10%
  • Permanent
  • Benefits eligible


WHERE YOU'LL BE BASED

Santa MonicaCalifornia, United States

United StatesRed Bull North America

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About Red Bull

Red Bull is an energy drink sold by Red Bull GmbH, an Austrian company created in 1987. Red Bull has the highest market share of any energy drink in the world, with 7.5 billion cans sold in a year (as of 2019). Austrian entrepreneur Dietrich Mateschitz was inspired by an existing energy drink named Krating Daeng, which was first introduced and sold in Thailand by Chaleo Yoovidhya. He took this idea, modified the ingredients to suit the tastes of Westerners, and, in partnership with Chaleo, founded Red Bull GmbH in 1987. Red Bull is sold in a tall and slim blue-silver can, and is marketed through advertising, events (Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, Red Bull Air Race, Red Bull Crashed Ice), sports team ownerships (Red Bull Racing, Scuderia AlphaTauri, FC Red Bull Salzburg, New York Red Bulls, Red Bull Brasil, RB Leipzig, EC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Ghana), celebrity endorsements, and music, through its record label Red Bull Records.
Learn more about Red Bull
Size
12,000 employees
Industry
Food & Beverages
* Ladders Estimates

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