Financial Analyst- Profit Recovery

Mantu is an independent international consulting player, founded in 2007. Bringing together expert and complementary brands, Mantu stands out for the breadth of its spectrum, responding to all business transformation challenges.

Its activities are divided into four practices: Leadership & Advocacy, Technology, Digital Marketing & Experience, Total Talent Management. A wide range of skills, all serving a single mission: connecting and powering companies with leading teams and technology to succeed faster and sustainably.

From its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Mantu relies on a community of 11,500 talented people in more than 60 countries on 5 continents and has a turnover of 1 billion euros.

Our values are our guiding principles that steer everything we do; from the way we work with our clients and partners to how we interact with our teammates and candidates. The Mantu values – Pioneer Spirit, Care, Trust, Performance, and Independence as a cornerstone – are equally important and reflect our purpose: we are in business to build the next generation of sustainable pioneers.

Experience and Qualifications

We are looking for:

6 months - 1 year of professional experience in client facing, Audit / Banking / Retail / Finance.
Experience in Retail or FMCG is considered a plus.
Strong financial and analytical skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Proficient with English.
Open-minded, critical thinker with problem-solving abilities, passionate about retail industry, motivated to improve.
If you are an enthusiastic professional focused on value-adding experiences, with the willingness to join a dynamic and growing team, we are curious to meet you! Retail is a complex business, with a bit of everything.

Valuement , part of Mantu group is an international consulting company specialized in business processes and data analysis, with legal entities in Italy, Russia, Romania, France, Denmark and the UAE.

For more than ten years we’ve been providing a wide range of auditing and consulting services to top-tier organizations in 20 countries worldwide, resulting in millions of euros of concrete benefits recovered for our clients.

Our offers are divided into two main areas: auditing and consulting. The former verifies the correct application of business processes while ensuring compliance with company policies and the latter improves organizational and operational efficiency with constant change management process support.

Job Responsibilities

Work on Auditing projects with an experienced and motivated team, in a dynamic industry, with challenging opportunities and high development potential. Your main tasks will include:

General:

Assess, understand or anticipate the client needs and desired outcomes.
Build strong client relationship, focus to understanding client expectation.
Respond proactively to new client needs.
Develop, structure and interpret financial analysis of clients through efficient collaboration with other analysts from the team, with the IT manager and Auditing manger.
Be accountable for deliverables to (1) direct responsible, (2) client-staff, (3) 3rd party vendors / partners.


Operational:

Develop a good knowledge of the client’s business, processes, tools, organization structure and contracts.
Efficiently use and update both client’s internal systems and Valuement tool.
Link and corroborate data from multiple sources (accounting, logistic, commercial) and from multiple formats (databases, reports, contracts, e-mails). Understand and interpret client’s electronic data, performing complex analysis in order to identify the likely causes of loss of income (double payments, unregistered credit notes, unapplied sales allowance).
Review and analyse contracts, commercial agreements, paperwork, electronic documents. Inspect and evaluate client’s financial information including buyers’ files, purchase orders, invoices for identify potential revenue leakage.
Detect anomalies, investigate other potential sources of revenue leakage, propose course of action.
Actively contact vendors as part of the claim production process; independently produce written correspondences to vendor inquiries with the scope of obtaining validation of the uncollected amounts and reconciling the financial differences. Meet vendor representatives (KA, etc.) to discuss outstanding amounts.
Communicate with the client’s suppliers for follow-ups regarding the collection of the leaked income.
Provide periodic reports and other feedback to Valuement management or direct responsible related to progress and any issues affecting client relationship.
Identify weaknesses in the client’s internal procedures by analysing client’s data.
Present and discuss results from analysis with the senior analysts and Audit manager, with the client and the relevant third-party vendors. Meet periodically with client contact(s) to provide information on findings and progress.
Participate to internal meetings and also client discussions related to process improvement and Valuement’s reports and deliverables.

What we Offer:

Salary package in line with local corporate market (in terms of competitiveness, bonuses, insurance, meal tickets).
Interesting career development options and provoking assignments.
Independence, respect and trust as long as your agenda is aligned with ours.
Great team, office, tools and culture.
Hybrid working policy.

"Mantu is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to promoting diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. For this purpose, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, beliefs, age, marital status, disability or other characteristics."