Summary of the role:
This position supports the Planning and Controlling Manager in budgeting, forecasting, and planning activities. The ideal candidate will act as a business partner to help the organization achieve financial and operational objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
* Manage month-end reporting activities, ensuring timely and accurate submission of reports to HQ and qualitative reporting to internal Top Management;
* Manage the budgeting and forecasting processes: planning, data collection from all departments, consolidation, challenging data, and presenting relevant reports to local management and HQ;
* Implement and maintain control measures related to P&L and Balance Sheet items;
* Analyse business KPIs by examining consistency and deviation between budget, forecast, and planning, and propose corrective actions to local management;
* Analyse costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results, and the company's actual performance compared to the budget, forecast, and prior year;
* Identify issues and advise management on action plans and operational strategies to solve them;
* Prepare and analyse reports on costs and margins, including specific analyses to support any management decisions;
* Prepare and analyse the monthly reports on market/channel/product performances;
* Support pricing definition and analysis;
* Support the continuous development of controlling methods and systems to monitor the economic efficiency of the business;
* Support the development of tools and reports to measure the business performance;
* Take part in the implementation and roll out of Finance IT systems and tools to support and automate controlling activities and reporting;
* Carry out specific analysis when needed.
Requirements:
* Degree in Economics or Finance;
* At least 4 years of previous experience in financial Controlling in a multinational company;
* Solid knowledge of planning and control principles and method;
* Good accounting knowledge, preferably in a Big4 environment;
* Good knowledge of financial mathematics is preferable;
* Advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills;
* Advance SAS Knowledge;
* Experience with ERP and Business Intelligence;
* Fluent in English, both written and spoken.
Personal Qualities:
* Optimistic, proactive, and structured approach to work with good analytical and process analysis skills;
* Strong problem-solving attitude;
* Willing to work well in a fast-paced, results-oriented, and rapidly changing environment.