Controller

Open 31d

GENERAL

Ensure compliance with Group Controlling guidelines and maintain an effective financial reporting framework.
Design and manage financial systems, reporting processes, and information distribution to budget owners.
Drive controlling efficiency through process improvements, automation, and enhanced business insights.
Support bottom-up planning, forecasting, budgeting, and long-term financial planning with high accuracy.
Evaluate business initiatives through cost-benefit analysis, financial modelling, and business case development.
Partner with budget holders to provide financial guidance, identify risks and opportunities, support budget reallocations, and ensure budget adherence.
Foster strong stakeholder relationships and facilitate informed decision-making through data-driven insights and knowledge sharing.

COMMERCIAL ANALYSIS & BUSINESS PARTNERING

Partner with Sales and Marketing teams, acting as a trusted advisor by providing insights, challenging assumptions, and supporting decision-making.
Manage Sales Controlling activities, including trade terms, customer budgets, P&Ls, profitability analysis, trade term simulations, and exposure reduction initiatives.
Support Marketing Controlling through media, sponsorship, athlete, event, and agency contract analysis, budget reallocations, spend tracking, effectiveness assessments, and cost benchmarking.
Conduct financial analytics, scenario modelling, and profitability assessments for product launches, pricing strategies, and business initiatives.
Perform ad hoc financial analyses, including price increase impact, volume elasticity, and "what-if" simulations to support business decisions.
Develop and maintain product pricing frameworks, including list price recommendations, launch profitability evaluations, and post-launch performance reviews.
Ensure budget adherence and provide financial guidance to budget owners across Sales and Marketing functions.

REPORTING & ANALYSIS

Prepare / validate the weekly sales report. Calculates the volume change, price change and product mix impact by Key Account. Calculates the customer mix impact on the total P&L. Calculates the exposure between customers.
Calculates/reports the major KPIs (Financial Sales, DSO), basic exposure rate, advanced exposure rate.
Prepares reports on aggregated or on detailed level by GKA and LKA comparing the profitability YTD, comparing PY vs CY vs RE vs Year to Go.
Prepares the international exposure rate report. Prepares and distributes a detailed monthly report including comments on brand, project (= internal order), account, and cost center level using SAP, BI and Hyperion for each budget owner and GM

PLANNING & FORECASTING

Coordinate the Business Plan/Revised Estimate data collection and data entry.
Coordinate timings and input needed during the budget process.
Aggregates/consolidates the individual plans to a total plan.
Supports and challenges the budget owners during the planning process. Prepares year to go best estimates.

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a controlling role in consumer goods.
In depth understanding of promotional mechanics and the related financial impact.
Highly analytical and very skilled individual in the area of profitability analysis.
Ability to quickly identify and analyse risks & impacts and able to define alternatives.
Good communication and presentation skills. Capable of communicating and presenting precisely and effectively with internal stakeholders up to GM level.
A structured and well-organized individual.
Must be self-motivated, self-directed and be able to work under pressure in a fast-paced team environment.
IT literate, excellent MS Excel knowledge, familiar with any integrated business analysis tool is a strong plus (SAP BI/ Hyperion etc.).