Planning & Forecasting Analyst

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

The US Planning & Forecast Analyst, is a partner for the in-market Finance Teams in the development of market forecasts, Plan and Update exercises.

Key Responsibilities

• Strong understanding of actual/ historical performance, external environment and able bring into planning and forecasting considerations.
• Prepare monthly reports, variance analysis, Risks and Opportunities for management to review and drive business performance/gap closing initiatives and be the single point of contact for management reporting for that market.
• Understand assumptions and drive SG&A planning.
• Compare and comment on forecasts against budgets and prior month forecasts.
• Preparation of management reports for Core Commercial Cycle/S&OP processes such as the DRM (Demand Review Meeting) decks and performance reviews such as the MPR (Monthly Performance Reviews) decks to support decision making and for use by management.
• Prepare ad-hoc reporting requests from in-market finance teams or the Finance Director e.g. trend analysis for a product type.
• Help deliver a standardized financial forecast process across the Consensus Forecasting platforms within the Core Commercial Cycle framework.
• Responsible for the support of robustness and accuracy of the market forecasts and plans.
   

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree completed in Business Administration, Accounting, Industrial Engineer, or similar careers.
• 3+ years of experience in financial planning, budgeting, financial controlling and analysis preferably gathered in a corporate environment in a multinational company and/or FMCG
• Strong understanding of corporate financial management with concentration in financial planning and analysis
• Advanced spoken and written English
• Advanced knowledge of Excel
• Previous experience working with SAP and Power BI is a PLUS
• Experience of shared service center environment
• Understand what the key drivers in changes to the plan & forecast are
• Ability to understand the complexity in which the markets operate.

If you feel this is your next career step, apply by 23/May/2025!

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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