Commercial Finance Manager

Mindfield Resources - Our client, a multinational in the consumer goods industry and at the top of their game, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant position below:

Job Position: Commercial Finance Manager
Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-Time Regular

Your Role

• You should come armed with a degree in finance and professionals qualifications.
• Bringing 8+ years of quality experience to the table you would be responsible for delivering financial insights, analysis and support to the sales organization. Supporting the customer growth plans across the area by leading the preparation of the financial evaluation of the new commercial ideas and proposals.
• Coordinate the overall trade spend process, rigorously analyses and interprets information on trade investment performance and report trade investment trends that need business attention.
• Assist to enforce current trade spend control process and look into opportunity to strengthen trade spend control.
• Strengthens control in trade returns charge to trade spend bucket and perform sufficient checks to minimize the activities , Verifies against trading term, to advise sales team for any missing term not created.
• Advises and monitors sales team to resolve any customer financial related issues.
• Ability to influence governance.
• Drive ad hoc projects within the business, drive cross team development, always look out for process improvement and keeping things simple.
• Interact proactively with key internal clients including Sales Team, Category and Commercial Planning Team
• High Preference for Nigerian Nationals .
• Must have experience in the consumer goods industry.

Managing Expectations

• At Mindfield we are driven by mutually agreed KPIs and service levels. Exceptional results can only be delivered when we understand both our key stakeholders clients and candidates. Keeping this in mind we would request that when applying for a role do take cognizance of the “must haves” to avoid disappointment. Sometimes positions take time to close and there could be delay in us responding to you but respond we will. Look forward to a long term relationship.....Mindfield. Making a difference.