EMEIA Finance Business Partner

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You will become a member of the Sales Finance team at Apple. With approximately 150 employees based across 4 locational hubs within EMEIA (Europe, Middle East, India and Africa), we create value, collaborating with many teams to provide outstanding commercial and financial support. We set the bar high; go out of our way to help others; share knowledge; filter out noise to focus on the essential; encourage the very best from ourselves and the team; and drive the right course of action. To do all of this you will be an excellent communicator, collaborator and innovator, with a passion for debate and inclusion.

Description

As the Finance Business Partner to the Apple's Consumer Digital sales team you will provide critical input to help drive the growth ambitions for this area of the business. You will report, analyse & present performance and key insights, trends and issues as they emerge. You will support analysis with recommendations for improvement and action to further accelerate growth or take corrective action to mitigate risk.

You will build robust business cases to support Apple's investments in this area, including terms and condition changes, special programmes to support growth, headcount or capital investments as well as tactical, demand generating actions to drive performance. You will take ownership for the key finance processes as well as liaise with key account finance teams to support the relationships between them and Apple.

There is a strong requirement to be articulate within Apple's reporting systems & tools and be able to extract data, format and analyse it then present it in a clear way highlighting key messages. You will be the interface between the numbers and your sales business partner.

You will need to build strong relationships with teams both within and outside of Sales Finance and use this to help bring insights, influence the team direction and drive change where needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with GBI / Business Objects & other financial performance measurement systems is beneficial.

Professional Finance Qualifications preferred

Minimum Qualifications

Highly analytical, with the ability to articulate quantitative and qualitative data as meaningful, action-oriented insights, and offer an opinion or recommendations to the business

Accomplished presentation skills, being able to build and tell your story in a structured way, with credibility and conviction

High standard of planning and organisation, preempting questions, challenges, and follow-up actions before they arise

Comfortable working with complex, unstructured data sets in Excel to visualise findings

Degree Education

At Apple, we're not all the same. And that's our greatest strength. We draw on the differences in who we are, what we've experienced and how we think. Because to create products that serve everyone, we believe in including everyone. Therefore, we are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally. As a registered Disability Confident employer, we will work with applicants to make any reasonable accommodations. Apple will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal backgrounds in a manner consistent with applicable law. Learn more