Description

Supports the Controlling Manager and Controlling team in Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning activities and, more in general, support the organization to achieve financial and operational objectives.

Role and duty – core business

• Support month-end reporting related activities, ensuring timely, accurate and consistent submission of standard report to HQ and qualitative reporting to the internal Top Management;
• Involved in the budgeting and forecasting processes: planning, data collection from all departments, consolidation, challenge data, present relevant reports to the local management and HQ;
• Support the implementation and control of measures related to P&L and Balance Sheet items;
• Control business KPIs by analysing consistency a 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 analyses the monthly reports on market/channel/product performances;
• Support pricing definition and analysis;
• Support a 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 in order to support and automate controlling activities and reporting;
• Carry out specific analysis when needed.

Competences

• Degree in Economics or Finance;
• 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

Personal flairs

• Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• 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

What we offer: