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
1. Support the monthly financial forecasting process with selected activities (such as technical preparation/set-up, FX analysis, R&O analysis, creation of communication packages)
2. Create transparency about business performance by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information.
3. Provide Senior and Group Management with correct, timely and in-depth financial analysis and other ad-hoc reporting
4. Ensure alignment across multiple stakeholders within the forecasting process
5. Ensure meaningful tracking against financial targets via insightful, timely and accurate analyses based on actuals and latest estimates/forecasts to enable fact based decisions
6. Faciliate Targetshift processes as needed and participate in target setting and calculations
7. 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
8. Support the definition and implementation of new and improvement of existing processes
9. Develop and implement state of the art analytic tools to enable better financial analyses & financial planning
Key Relationships
10. Finance Counterparts in local finance organizations
11. GOPS/Group Functions Controlling
12. Sales Finance (Market/Brand Finance)
13. Marketing Expense Controlling
14. Accounting
15. Treasury
16. HR
17. GBS
18. Tech/IT (incl. TRANS4RM team)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
19. Understanding of the complexity, interactions and dynamics within an international company
20. Solid business understanding of processes and structure
21. Very good analytical skills and managing large data quantities from multiple sources
22. 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)
23. Ability to maneuver in a consistently changing environment
24. Good communication skills for adapting and exchanging information, mainly within the organization
25. High degree of customer orientation with the ability to operate cross-functionally and understanding of external business drivers
26. Proactive mind & results orientation to drive improvements
27. Fluent in English (written and spoken)
28. Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
29. PowerBI / SAP / SAC knowledge is desirable
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications
30. University degree in Business Administration / Finance / Controlling or equivalent background in related fields
31. Experience in BI tools, SAP, Power BI
32. 4+ years of working experience in a similar role