Job Title: Assistant Commercial Finance Manager
Location: Lagos
Sector: FMCG

Job Purpose: Responsible for managing and monitoring Marketing Investment and marketing CAPEX. This includes the management of Brands and Trade expenditure, reconciliation of all Actual spend to budget and stakeholder engagement, ensuring the proper capture of expense in the correct budget lines and prompt payment to our trading partners.

Key Accountabilities:
Operational/Technical
▪ Budgeting & Budget Alignment process
• Collating and preparing the budget for Marketing Investment
• Marketing Capex management (Budgeting, Cash forecasting and Actuals)
• Ensuring timely BPC alignment with target forecast
▪ Monthly Tracking of Spend
• Capture, Track, and review marketing investment spend
• Ensuring Monthly Marketing Investment is completed OTIF- Month end reporting and reconciliation
• Reconciling and providing variance for Actuals spend vs Budget
• Trade and Brand Performance Evaluations
• Marketing Investment Reviews Sessions with Stakeholders
▪ Capex Reporting
• Sharing monthly CAPEX report to respective stakeholders
• Engage respective stakeholders on CAPEX phasing, update monthly forecast report with actuals
▪ Customer Evaluation/Payment
• Value max payment and reconciliation
• Credit notes issuance and e-flow postings
▪ Stocktaking and Reporting
• Reporting Periodic stocktaking
▪ Business Case
• Receive inputs from the Brand team and provide financials for business case as required
▪ SoX Documentation
• Provide monthly SOX evidence for compliance purposes
▪ Records management
• Ensure compliance with the Company’s policy on records management
▪ Audit support
Collate and review adequacy of audit evidences and support documents
▪ Ad-hoc
Assist with any requirement within the Marketing Finance team to ensure the propriety and accuracy of all transactions in the accounts of the Company and to ensure that all records in the books of the company are a true reflection of its activities.
People
▪ Ensure good working relationships with all key internal stakeholders (GBS, Marketing Team, Cluster/Market Managers, Line Managers, and employees in general).

Qualification & Experience
A University/Polytechnic Degree with 2-3 years relevant experience in a financial accounting role
▪ Professional accounting certification (ICAN/ACCA)

Qualified candidates should send CV’s to vacancies@tusenconsulting.com using “Assistant Commercial Finance Manager” as the subject of the email.