Finance Retail Accounts Analyst, US & EMEA

As a finance retail accounts analyst, you will report to the Director of Finance and will play a crucial role in driving improvements and managing the retail rebates process in Americas and EMEA.  

Job Description:

• Relationship Management:  Engage directly with US and European retail customer teams to ensure healthy relationship dynamics as well as drive process improvements through the Order to Cash interaction.  Includes some conflict resolution, problem solving and customer negotiations.
• Deductions Management/Optimization:  Put solutions in place to optimize the global deduction management process.
• Stakeholder Management:  Actively engage WD counterparts in Sales, Sales Operations, Marketing, Pricing and across all segments of the rebates and incentives process to understand customers’ engagement model and requirements, develop the ability to anticipate future financial impacts.
• Retail Rebate Escalations:  Manage escalations regarding US and European retail rebates settlement. Escalations may originate from external customer, Pricing or Finance partners.  Drive process improvements across all aspects of WD Retail rebates, incentive programs and claim settlements.
• Finance Liaison:  Serve as a business lead and effectively collaborate with Pricing, Sales, Customers, Accounting and Auditors.   Remove roadblocks to facilitate clean subledger & minimal backlog of deductions.  Provide analytics and reporting enhancements to support Financial close activities & the Accounting accruals process
• Process Improvement:  Drive process improvements across all aspects of WD Retail rebates and claim settlements, engaging customer, with Pricing, Sales, Customers, Accounting, Auditors, and the broader WD global finance community.
• Tools Improvements:   Coordinate with IT on building an automated validation tool to facilitate validation of retail deductions with WD rebates, leveraging Model N, Salesforce.com, SAP and other related tools.

Education and Experience Required:

• Understanding of retail pricing dynamics and standard practices, deductions, and rebates.  
• Bachelor’s or higher degree required.  Finance or Accounting related fields preferred.
• Strong business partnering across supply chain, pricing & sales-related organizations.  
• Experience managing across functional teams.
• Systems aptitude, with knowledge of SAP & Model N preferred.
• Strong Excel skills required.
• Basic awareness of accounting principles

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