Finance Manager, Controlling - Product Development & Sourcing

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is supporting financial controlling and cost management across Sourcing and Product Operation functions. As a business partner the focus is to enable fact-based decision making, best practice sharing, and continuous process improvement by creating transparency on impact and dependencies of core cost and service drivers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business partnering with senior leaders in Sourcing
  • Support execution of Sourcing strategy to improve end-to-end group performance, cost, and service levels.
  • Support on FTE management across organization by business partnering with HR.
  • Implement and drive workforce analytics for operational as well as strategic business and workforce planning.
  • Manage cost centers and support cost center owners in all financial tasks, e.g., investment and recruitment requests.
  • Control spending of respective function and cost center owners.

• Financial Planning & Analysis
  • Support on budgeting, forecasting and reporting process for Sourcing and Product Operation overheads (PEX & non-PEX).
  • Explain deviations and identifying saving potentials.
  • Drive the month end closing process with ensuring correct bookings
  • Develop and implement controlling-related state of the art reporting and analytic tools.
  • Manage Global Business Service (GBS) on supporting on operational tasks.

• Projects
  • Support on cross functional projects to drive work efficiency and value-adding services to the business.
  • Support business case development and costs savings initiatives by challenging, identifying and quantifying improvement potential.

Key Relationships:

• Senior leadership in Sourcing & Product Operations in multiple countries.
• Head office finance teams in headquarters and local accountant in each sourcing origin.
• HR Function
• Supporting Function (IT, GBS)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
• Ability to maneuver and work in a consistently changing and cross-functional environment within different management levels of a global organization
• Result oriented and pro-active with a high degree of customer orientation
• Good business partnering skills e.g.  communication and presentation skills
• Experience in using business intelligence and analytic software. E.g. Power BI, Tableau, Qlik
• Excellent MS Office skills (especially Excel and PowerPoint)
• Fluent in business English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business Administration/ Finance/ Accounting or equivalent background in related fields.
• 2+ years of experience in multinational companies with roles involving either strong financial business partnering, FP&A or analytical requirements
• Knowledge of fast-moving consumer goods, fashion industry and/or retail is an advantage