It’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. At JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS, we’ve made it our mission to find out. Our people have been raising the bar since day one, thinking fast and acting even faster to make an impact that’s felt around the world. JDE is the home to some of the most well-known coffee brands in the world. To date, our coffee and tea portfolio is available in over 100 countries and includes iconic household names such as Jacobs, Tassimo, Moccona, Senseo, L’OR, Douwe Egberts, TiOra, Super, Kenco, Pilao and Gevalia. We’ve built our business on the belief that everyone deserves the coffee they love – no matter who you are, where you live or how you take it.

At JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS we are inspired by our belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. We are driven by the vision that everyone deserves the coffee they love.

The FP&A Specialist cooperates with the FP&A Manager to drive Topline performance  of the company by making recommendations to optimize trade spendings.

• Responsible for the trade spent management of the distributors and key accounts to support sales team for giving right decisions by controlling the GTN spents with the budgeted and actual results. Accounting gross sales to net sales and owning period end closing activities.
• Executes Customer analysis including revenue, trade spendings and profitabilities to assist management into providing insight into risks and opportunities to the business
• Contributes to the planning and development of the annual operating plan budget
• Contributes to preparation of key management team meetings (ExCo, board, etc.)
• Supports development of Topline financial models to analyze various business opportunities and profitability initiatives
• Supports accurate and timely production of all financial information, implementing and maintaining effective processes to improve the reporting process
• Supports periodical financial forecasts
• Actively takes part in the quarterly Sales and Trade spend Planning process and challenging the data input to ensure quality forecasting
• Supports MMR preparation & ad-hoc projects
• Completes proper analytical review of brand and channel wise P&L, identify the trends, drive saving and efficiencies in commercial spendings.
• Business Partnering to Sales and Trade Marketing teams
• Monitors monthly performance against plan and/or forecast and explains variances, ensuring that the Return on Investments are adequate to justify the spending
• Examining Trade Spend patterns; drive efficiencies in trade and marketing spent

• BA preferably in Economics / Finance

• 5+ years of experience in finance, preferably in an international FMCG company in financial analysis & planning
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• SAP knowledge is a must
• Ability to manage a changing workload in a dynamic deadline-driven changing environment
• Strong influential skills, very good communicator, able to fully engage key stakeholders for implementing JDE strategies and deliver stretch business results
• Accurate, flexible thinking, time management skills, high analytical skills,
• Team player, hands-on, proactive, excellent communication skills, independent/self-starter, eager to learn and further develop, act with a sense of urgency
• Fluency in English