FP&A Analyst

Position :  Market division Financial Planner & Analyst (FP&A) H/F

Organization

• Function : Finance
• Area :  Power Grid
• Location : Courbevoie
• Team = Finance

Context

Nexans has embarked on a new strategy for the next four years: sparking electrification with tech solutions.  In this context, a new Power Grid and Connect organization has been put in place, which is combining two Market Divisions, as architects of Nexans future growth to scale innovation-driven offerings and five Regions, to align operations, resources and decision making closer to the field and foster profitable growth.

Market division FP&A plays a key role in defining data needs for the financial modelling of the activity, in building profitable growth & innovation-driven scenarios, exploiting pockets of growth & repeatable and advanced offers, and in building with the Regions and accessories business unit reliable 3-quarter commercial activity forward looking views.

Purpose

FP&A supports performance assessment & strategic decisions by providing precise and impactful data-driven analyses for the various stakeholders. These analyses will mostly focus on the modelling of future performances, innovation decision & market growth, with financial trajectories in the short, medium (3 quarters) and long term, supported by the performance achieved to date, regions commercial outlook & growth plans, comparison with market growth & benchmarking with main competitors performance.

To execute their missions, FP&A will gather company-wide data to determine the financial health and future of the organization, creating data-driven competitive advantages and building market division use cases by capitalizing on high quality data and market intelligence. FP&A becomes a Business Translator, developing and delivering data-driven profitable growth & innovation driven business scenarios.

Market growth through data mining

FP&A has in key role in defining data mining needs, collecting reliable internal & external market information, adequately structured to strategic & operational needs. FP&A should gather a good knowledge & understanding of past & current performance of the business, customers’ expectations and positioning vs. competitors (share of wallet, premiumization opportunities), and market growth opportunities for regions to strengthen the modelling of future profitable growth.

Market growth through Innovation

FP&A has in key role in modelling & monetizing innovation initiatives to best allocate capital resources.

Market growth through Premiumization

FP&A has in key role in ensuring all strategic decisions are supporting Nexans main objectives of premiumization of Nexans, including customers selectivity, advanced offers promotions & high value adding portfolio offering.

Areas of responsibility

Data mining - collection of sales & marketing data

• Assess internal available data
• Collect & consolidate growth plans from regions & countries
• Collect benchmarking data
• Collect other available external data (market intelligence, M&A analyses,…)

in collaboration with BI Analyst, regions & market divisions key stakeholders, countries main stakeholders & master data managers.

• Data quality: assess reliability & quality of data consolidated in BI Tools and other internal sources (Sales to CM to GM) and liaise with BI Analyst for updates as needed.
• Data granularity: assess sufficient granularity is available for analysis & modelling needs and liaise with BI Analyst and regions & countries key stakeholders for updates as needed.
• Data usage: Find ways to utilize efficiently all data sources in order to optimize global Marketing & Sales Process and accelerate data usage and analytics.
• Data availability: Develop a deep understanding of current and future needs of our stakeholders. Develop gap analyses, assessing the “as is” data assets versus use cases requirements in order to define and build data acquisition needs and quality expectations.

Data analysis & modelling

• Data Analysis & reporting: Analyze trends in sales & margins to provide actionable insights. The analysis is to be done in particular by country, product/ customers, verticals & horizontals offers. Analyze the market penetration per sales channels, hit rates & product segmentation.
• Generate reports and work with dashboards to provide management information, ensuring the granular visibility of Shift & Market division key priorities  (e.g. Global Offers, KAM, Brand, New offers…).
• Performance Tracking: Track and analyze progress against growth plans & other key performance indicators (KPIs) defined to monitor profitable growth targets of countries & regions and provide recommendations to improve financial performance.
• 3Q commercial activity outlook: Collect & consolidate country view on next 3Q commercial activity. Benchmark with market division assessment on next 3Q commercial activity.
• Sales & Marketing roadmap: Support the definition of the roadmap and participate in its execution.
• Financial modelling: Contribute to the evaluation of new business & innovation opportunities and initiatives, including the resources needed to deliver the ROI (Capex, Opex, workforce planning). Become a Market sizing & platforming Model Owner (from industrialization to replication). Follow up on and ensure success and value creation of data business cases
• Ad hoc analyses: Perform ad hoc financial analyses to support decision-making on growth & innovation initiatives

Expected results

Securing and optimizing the profitable growth trajectory & best capital resources allocation thanks to financial modelling.

Required skills and qualifications

Minimum Qualification

• 3+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis,
• Business understanding and experience
• Proficiency in financial modeling and advanced Excel skills.
• Experience with BI tools, Dashboards, and ERP systems (e.g. SAP).
• Data Driven with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven experience of working effectively with diverse stakeholders across multiple time zones
• Curiosity, collaborative mindset
• Excellent organisational & time management skills
• Profitable growth mindset
• Strong communication & storytelling skills
• English fluency

Preferred Qualifications

• Engineering or Business Education with Data orientation
• Experience in FP&A & transformation projects
• French/English bilingual
• 3+ year experience with BI tools, Dashboards, and ERP systems (e.g. SAP).
• Knowledge of CRM, Pricing and data visualisation tools