Mihaela Benga

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES:

• Prepare management reports, including important and impactful commentaries, to discuss with partners.
• Provide the business with finance reporting information (Brand profitability, TCI analyses, NBE, and MI Overview dashboards, etc.) as per the frequency established with the markets.
• Distribute standardized reporting packs to End Market BPs for discussion (Marketing Finance Tracker, Power BI Dashboards, etc.).
• Proactively monitor and track costs and highlight any variance from plan, both actual and forecast - collate and analyze detailed breakdown of cost and provide input to budget holder for their review.
• Prepare first-level commentary, dashboards, and variance analysis, including analysis of MI commitments.
• Provide accurate and timely information on budget plan and actual spend to assist marketing management in monitoring ongoing performance.
• Run and understand all cost allocations, cost accounting, and queries (e.g., adjustments, accruals, provisioning).
• Direct engagement with BH to manage and understand accruals and provisions (including tracking cost reallocations, standard recharges, Shared Costs, IFRS15 reclass, etc)

PURPOSE STATEMENT:

The primary responsibility of the role is to proactively support the delivery of Group Statutory & Management Reporting (actual financials) information and drive operational improvements.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Operational/ Professional/ Business

• Ensuring compliance with all relevant accounting policies, internal and SOX controls at all time, as well as liaise with external auditors for any requests and queries related to SOX and audit
• Management of write offs on a timely basis such that write off cost centres are charged appropriately to Intercompany partners.
• Manage intercompany recharges with a particular focus on Factory recharges (Toll, LSC, OIE, Adj Items, etc.)
• LRD Recharge management including engagement with the commercial team and the impacted end market teams.
• Management of profit and loss such that costs are incurred in the appropriate periods. Maintaining accruals and provisions as appropriate in accordance with relevant SoX approvals.
• Investigating and responding to ad-hoc queries/reporting relating to financial performance and analysis requests
• Drive a continuous improvement culture including applications of analytics, simplification, and automation, resulting in improvement to financial results and contribute to the business - advanced experience in SAP FI/CO and SAP BPC.

Relationships

Build a strong network within BAT to ensure that issues can be quickly identified and resolved, in particular with the other members of the Exports team, other GBS finance teams and other finance stakeholders in Regional, Area and End Market teams.

Key Success Factors

All statutory and Group reporting requirements are met on a timely basis and to a high standard with clear explanations of key business performance drivers.

The entity level budget and actual P&L is sound and well controlled, variances are understood, and can be used to drive business decisions.

PURPOSE STATEMENT:

• Financial Reporting Analyst support preparation of statutory and management accounting reporting process, and perform tests, reconciliations, analysis with the purpose of testing reasonableness of the various financial reports, which include financial statements, information package supporting various decision points.
• The objective of this role is to enable the Financial Shared Service Centre to meet their business objectives by providing quality general accounting analysis and overall business support for end markets.

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES:

• Facilitate half yearly and year end management reporting. Take part in compliance and controls management
• Preparation of month end overhead reports, analysis and distribution to budget holder for follow up. Knowledge of SAP COPA as: Cost Center Accounting, Profit Center Accounting, Profitability Analysis, WBS, Planning & Budgeting.
• Preparation of monthly financial forecasts based on different meeting outcomes.
• Coordinate preparation of the budget/plan/forecasts on quarterly and annual bases. The financial figures are accurately and in a timely manner reported in BPC / SAP
• Follow up on commentaries/ad hoc requests from Area and Regional corporate finance teams.

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES:

• Serve as an independent contributor for a component of the Record to Report function inclusive of, General Ledger, Fixed Assets, Reconciliations, Month End Close, Statutory & Financial Reporting, Management reporting, data integrity and quality using SAP ECC in Neo environment.
• Financial Reporting Analyst take responsibility for the integrity, quality and reasonableness of management and statutory reporting process and cycle.
• Submission of management reporting unit as well as legal entity reporting requirements, this including preparation, review, and posting of Financial Adjustments, investigating any major variances, reviewing of the reasonableness of the balances, and ensuring IFRS and GMAP have been properly applied in the financial reports.
• Perform analytical review to ensure the movements vs. previous periods or vs. the previous forecast make sense
• Support in implementing internal controls to ensure accurate financial reporting

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES:

• Process daily tasks in accordance with given standard procedures;
• Usage of Finance tools (OlySup, Sun, Vision Excel, Kontrolla, Konducta);
• Check of quality of posted invoices/T&Es;
• Monitor based on trackers in place all parameters regarding quality of data, scanning errors etc;
• Understand role of back-up and perform back-up activities;
• Ask all useful questions and necessary approvals in order to comply with T&E procedure;
• Alert management on all risk issues;
• Answer to questions of supervisor/manager/local CFO

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES:

• Preparation and/or verification of accounting documents;
• Correct recording of accounting documents in financial software used: SAP ECC, especially parking and posting of supplier's invoices;
• Physical and electronic archiving of financial and accounting documents;
• Scanning and/or faxing of documents required when