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Marketing Accountant

FMCG

Buckinghamshire

Permanent ⁄ £30000 - £40000

Updated June 3, 2008

Working closely with the marketing department of this large FMCG organisation on budgeting,forecasting and analysis. Ensuring that the marketing spend is monitored to ensure productivity and profitability.
Principal Accountabilities include:
• Brand Profitability
- To assist in the provision of input to the annual brand plans, as part of the planning process, both in terms of financial data and commercial validation.
- To liaise with the Management Accountants to provide and then interpret Brand Profitability statements and ensure relevant financial analysis and information is provided for the Brand Managers to enable measurement of performance versus plan.

• Brand Evaluation
- To assist Brand Managers in carrying out Investment Appraisals of proposed spend initiatives
- To work with the Senior Marketing Finance Manager to ensure that as Consumer Dialogue is rolled out that the financial evaluations are embedded in the process
- To ensure that marketing spend efficiency and effectively
- To assist in the review of specific activity plans with regard to Trade Marketing and Distribution
• Trade Marketing and Distribution
- To assist in the provision of the input to the annual plan, both in terms of financial data and commercial validation of the proposed plans.
-To provide and interpret Customer Account Profitability statements
-To evaluate effectiveness of secondary supply chain expenditure
- Key Accounts strategy (identification of listing fees, trading agreements, price discounting)
-Production of Marketing Finance reports

• General:
- Systems - liaison with business over systems issues, reconciling SAP and SRM systems
-Set-up, analyse and monitor Internal Controls for both Brand and Trade to enable them to work in an efficient and effective environment.
-To maintain and manage budgets to assess the effectiveness of marketing spend.
-Perform presentations to Senior Management on Marketing Investment related issues.

Who we're looking for
The successful candidate will be a finalist or recently qualified, have SAP and FMCG experience. They should be a team player and have ambitions to progress and grow throughout the organisation.

About our client
My client is a world leading FMCG organisation based in Buckinghamshire.

What's on offer
Circa £30,000 - £40,000 (depending on experience) plus additional benefits

Michael Page Contact
For further info, apply or phone on +44 (0) 1865 208 780. Job Ref: 12975942
Your application will be sent to Justine O'Moore.