Business Analyst Corporate FP&A

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Within Corporate Controlling we drive company-wide activities regarding financial planning, analysis, and reporting to support strategic and operational decision-making as well as performance management at Group level.

The Business Analyst supports processes such as Corporate Reporting, Forecasting, Budget planning or Target setting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create transparency about business performance with focus on P&L and OWC by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information.
• Provide Senior and Group Management with correct, timely and in-depth financial analysis and meaningful insights into key financial developments across market, category and channel portfolios of the Total Company

• Ensure the governance and the maintenance of financial processes such as Standard Reporting, Forecasting, Budget Planning and Target setting in line with the Group Guidelines & Policies
• Support monthly financial processes with selected activities (e.g. month-end closing)
• Ensure alignment across multiple stakeholders within financial processes
• Provide support and expertise by identifying, sharing, and fostering best practices
• Ability to work in a cross-functional environment, setting up structures and creating state of the art analytics tools and meaningful reporting and analysis.

• Drive continuous improvement in the area of responsibility and support overall corporate FP&A team as needed

Key Relationships:

• Corporate Finance & Controlling Teams
• Market FP&A
• Commercial Finance
• Investor Relations
• GBS Finance (Reporting)
• Tech/IT (incl. TRANS4RM team)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Understanding of interactions and dynamics within an international company
• Ability to maneuver in a consistently changing environment
• Analytical skills and managing large data quantities from multiple sources
• Understanding of finance and financial reporting, in particular financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow metrics) as well as planning processes (Budget, Target, Forecast)
• Communication skills for adapting and exchanging information, mainly within the organization
• Solid customer orientation with the ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers
• Proactive mind & results orientation to drive improvements
• Independent work and cross-functional/-cultural collaboration
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Profound Excel and PowerPoint skills
• PowerBI / SAP / SAC knowledge is desirable

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration / Finance / Controlling or equivalent background in related fields

• Experience in BI tools, SAP, MS Office
• 1-3 years of working experience in a similar role