Head of Commercial Controlling

JOB TITLE: Head of Commercial Controlling

DEPARTMENT: Finance & Accounting – Business Controlling Dept

TYPE OF CONTRACT: Permanent

JOB DESCRIPTION

The company is looking for an experience finance professional to join Business Controlling team to develop business finance and commercial capabilities. The main focus is on commercial finance, controlling, planning and business partnering with other functions working at a senior level in the market

This position will be responsible for building and strengthening the finance capabilities within the market, with a particular focus on promotion financial evaluation, product mix calculation and pre-post analysis working very close with our Marketing-Business Insights and Supply Chain teams

This position will report to the Senior Director of Financial Planning & Reporting

Main responsibilities:

• Business partner with Marketing to develop and build strong relationships, ensuring a full involvement in their financials to drive growth and profitability
• Pre and post analysis for any promotion activity with existing products providing deep insight and challenge to financials
• Pre and post new product launch evaluation
• Prepare and provide our Supply Chain function with a product mix projection and actual variance analysis at a single SKU level on a timely manner
• Leading margin expansion initiatives related to product mix and portfolio decisions
• Perform key tasks within the commercial Finance team to ensure that reporting is both timely & accurate.
• Provide management with relevant financial information as requested
• Work within the team to develop new tools & systems to provide faster and more accurate projections on a weekly/daily basis
• Proactively highlight future performance concerns and opportunities to the Marketing & Finance Leadership teams
• Help Senior Management Team to take the right commercial decision based on accurate financial evaluations
• Work very close with our Pricing Manager in order to understand how pricing actions drive performances results and help to incorporate our marketing activities financial findings/learnings into pricing strategy as well as into our official projections/plan
• Submission of ad hoc data requests where required

Requirements for potential candidate:

• Commercial Finance
• Business Controlling, budgeting/planning skills
• Driven to take on additional responsibility in an organization that provides a high level of autonomy with ambition to progress your career within commercial and finance functions
• Proven track record of building relationships across departments, with well-developed communication skills
• Confident at the challenging the status quo and both influencing and challenging decisions at a senior management level
• Multi-tasking – need to be organized, highly efficient and able to push multiple projects forward at the same time
• Entrepreneurial – help the commercial team develop new initiatives/projects and resolve problems
• Advanced Excel skills with experience of scenario modelling
• Professional degree in Accounting / Business Administration
• 8-10 years of experience in similar commercial business partnering roles
• Strong commercial awareness and experience in a cross-functional environment within FMCG or Retail
• Good understanding of US Gaap
• Good English is necessary to take over this position

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