Senior Analyst Global Supply Chain COE - #7499405

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Job Description

Your Opportunity

COE Global Ops Supply Chain Senior Analyst position is a highly competitive role structured to strengthen/develop a well-rounded accounting and finance skillset, which will be the foundation for advancing your career at Bacardi.

Reporting to Supply Chain Finance Team Lead, this role will support Supply chain finance organization and operations in charge of supply chain finance processes such as freight cost analysis and budgeting, variance analysis and reporting, financial closings, Budget control and reporting purchases control (DC, Bailment Warehouses and Freight) and write Offs management (Finished Goods).

About You

This role requires interactions across many functions (Finance & Non-Finance), including acting as a resource to the international markets; as such, this role will regularly interact with a multitude of organizational levels, typically from employees to directors. Additionally, Supply Chain Team Professional, will deal with confidential and sensitive data and must assure conformity with policies, procedures, and regulations of Bacardi and external governments and agencies.

Responsibilities

With Our Consumer At The Heart Your Key Focus Will Be:

* Prepare budget for NAM Supply Chain Finance, budget update and load to TM1. Prepare and maintain budget support documentation.
* Analyze assigned GL accounts, monitor expenditures, and recommend budget adjustments as deemed appropriate. Identify issues causing transaction recording errors, process reclass entries or request and follow up for their correction and investigate root causes to request preventive measures.
* Perform monthly closing and accruals and analyze freight/warehouse bills, reclassify transactions or journal entry, prepare and document monthly accruals -perform other journal entries for reclasses as per business needs-.
* Execute the performance analysis for distribution center, storage costs and freight volume and non-volume as well as the Risk & Opportunities.
* Perform the consolidation of US performance for monthly analysis: reconciliation of TM1 information with BI of all US Supply Chain managed accounts.
* Prepare, document, and submit monthly manual accruals or accounting adjustments.
* Prepare and publish monthly responsibility reports, show, and explain variances to budget.
* Prepare the freight cost analysis report, analyze, and explain monthly variances between budget and actuals.
* Record inventories write offs and provisions, create support documents and process reclass journal entry.
* Perform storage and distribution cost performance analysis.
* AD HOC analysis including special projects support, business case value creation and validation.
* Participate as business support to system enhancements, strengthening and tests in the transportation area.
* New processes implementations and review of the current ones, including documentation. Includes, but not limited to freight capitalization, write offs, freight accrual verification, excise tax.
* Build capability/technical mastery within the team via ongoing training programs and continuously identify, propose, and execute process improvements.
* Develop the organization ensuring open communication with the team, via meaning full lets talks, department meetings and daily touchpoints.

Skills and Experience

The Skills And Experience Needed To Create Your Legacy:

* Previous accounting experience 4 years or higher.
* English Level 85% minimum. Ability to communicate in English. Advanced writing is a must and intermediate to advance speaking is required.
* Experience on SAP system and MS Excel applications with intermediate pivot tables and formulas experience.
* Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize tasks and manage his/her time efficiently.
* Detail oriented with the ability to capture information in a clear, concise manner and can adapt information for various audiences.
* Works well in a team environment and is a self-starter who requires minimal direction and support.
* Detail oriented with the ability to operate with discipline in terms of deadlines completion and follow ups execution.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and successfully manage a rapidly changing environment.
* Continuously identify, propose, and execute process improvements and transmit it to others.
* Desired but not mandatory: possess technical mastery in topics such as: standard costing, inventory flows, transfer pricing and variances accounting.
* Think and plan strategically to enhance designated processes including technology enhancements.
* Able to bring simplicity and commonality in approach and methodology to what the team does.

Personal Qualities

* Advance communication skills: positive experiences communicating with other members of the organization at different levels.
* Ability to create capability and technical mastery in other members of the team, in a way that his/her technical mastery can be transmitted to them.
* Ability to push creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing company practices and mindsets.
* Proactive individual that can collaborate and build effective relationships across all levels of the organization.
* Knowledge of standard business practices and professionalism in a customer service environment.
* Willingness to assume or transition new processes and tasks according to business needs.
* Influence others, including the markets to follow the correct procedures and policies.
* Ability to work in an environment volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.
* Open to receive and provide timely feedback.