Manager Finance - Corporate FP&A

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

Within Corporate FP&A and Controlling we drive company-wide activities regarding financial planning, analyses, and reporting to support strategic and operational decision-making as well as performance management.

The Senior Financial Analyst will play a critical role in supporting, managing and enhancing Global Forecasting processes by providing adequate simulation and consolidation models, ensuring a transparent and goal-oriented communication as well as preparation of timely, accurate and relevant management information.

Key Responsiblilities

• Support the monthly financial forecasting process with selected activities (such as technical preparation/set-up, FX analysis, R&O analysis, creation of communication packages)

• Create transparency about business performance by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information.

• Provide Senior and Group Management with correct, timely and in-depth financial analysis and other ad-hoc reporting
• Ensure alignment across multiple stakeholders within the forecasting process
• Ensure meaningful tracking against financial targets via insightful, timely and accurate analyses based on actuals and latest estimates/forecasts to enable fact based decisions
• Faciliate Targetshift processes as needed and participate in target setting and calculations

• Assume responsibility for medium-sized projects, potentially with an impact on the planning landscape or the financial planning/target setting; implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements
• Support the definition and implementation of new and improvement of existing processes
• Develop and implement state of the art analytic tools to enable better financial analyses & financial planning

Key Relationships

• Finance Counterparts in local finance organizations
• GOPS/Group Functions Controlling
• Sales Finance (Market/Brand Finance)
• Marketing Expense Controlling
• Accounting
• Treasury
• HR
• GBS
• Tech/IT (incl. TRANS4RM team)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics within an international company
• Solid business understanding of processes and structure
• Very good analytical skills and managing large data quantities from multiple sources
• Strong 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)
• Ability to maneuver in a consistently changing environment
• Good communication skills for adapting and exchanging information, mainly within the organization
• High degree of customer orientation with the ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers
• Proactive mind & results orientation to drive improvements
• Fluent in English (written and spoken)
• Strong 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, Power BI
• 4+ years of working experience in a similar role