Senior Manager Finance - Corporate FP&A

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization

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

As Senior Manager Financial Planning, you will play a critical role in the steering and execution of our Global Forecasting process as well as the integration of the process into our wider financial planning environment covering other internal planning processes (e.g. IBP) and the system landscape (e.g. CFIN/ SAC).

You will work in a fast-paced, highly visible environment, and liaise with a broad set of stakeholders including the SVP Corporate Controlling as well as functional leaders and Project management teams.

Key Responsiblilities

• Establish and oversee the execution of a clear, smooth and standardized FC process incl. stakeholder management, process definition and execution
• Drive cross-functional alignments with stakeholders in and outside of Corporate Finance & Controlling

• Manage the communication with the controller community
• Drive standardization and automation of FC process steps and analysis and reporting tasks
• Drive the evaluation of the current process and the identification of areas for improvement

• Continue the Integration of planning processes into the new system landscape (SAC)
• Explore opportunities to leverage new system functionalities and present improvement opportunities by defining clear requirements from Financial Planning point of view
• Act as the main point of contact for stakeholders from the project team

• Support board-level decision-making through reliable, transparent and accurate regular and ad-hoc analyses and insights
• Collect and provide qualitative commentary packages and presentations to support senior management to identify drivers and trends and develop recommendations and solutions
• Drive the development and standardization of analysis and reporting packages (e.g. run-rate analyses)

• Independent management of key projects based on board requirements and internal focus topics
• Define scope, steps and desired outcome in line with Financial Planning priorities

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

• Process-orientated and end-to-end mindset driven
• Outstanding problem-solving skills (structuring, analyses, synthesis)
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and manage stakeholders
• Analytical mindset and facility with numbers
• Solid understanding of finance and accounting
• Ideally experience with planning software (SAP)
• Innovative, action-oriented and solution-minded team player

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Advanced degree or qualification in Business, Finance or Economics
• 5+ years of broad-based (Corporate) Finance experience with progressive responsibility