Financial Controller

Financial Controller role is aimed for providing high-quality financial analysis and reporting, supporting decision making process, managing full budgeting and planning cycle, to drive business results while complying corporate guidelines.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares and distributes weekly and monthly reports including comments on variances.
• Ensures a timely distribution of financial information (plan & actual) to every budget holder by sending out reports, by allowing system access and by presenting the information in regular meetings.
• Contributes to a high forecasting accuracy of business plans, revised estimates and long-term forecasts.
• Coordinates the Business Plan/Revised Estimate data collection and data entry, prepares year to go best estimates.
• Measures and reviews the cost/benefit ratio of proposed activities, promotions, new product launches and challenges where appropriate.
• Supports budget reallocations, ensures overall budget adherence, highlights risks and opportunities, provides financial simulations and develops business cases for new projects.
• Takes part in month end closing process, coordinates the monthly accrual process following the cost revenue matching principle.
• Ensures the reconciliation of systems (SAP/BI/Hyperion).
• Ensures master data quality and verifies the consistency of the customer, product and internal order hierarchies.
• Calculates the volume, price and product mix effects, calculates and reports the major KPIs.
• Supports and challenges the budget owners during the planning process.
• Conducts ad hoc analyses for strategic management decisions.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement.

Requirements:

• IT literate, excellent MS Excel knowledge, familiarity with any integrated business analysis tool is a strong plus (SAP BI/Hyperion etc).
• 2+ years' experience in controlling, preferably FMCG businesses.
• Upper-intermediate English.
• In depth understanding of promotional mechanics and the related financial impact.
• Highly analytical and very skilled individual in profitability analysis.
• Ability to quickly identify and analyze risks & impacts, able to define alternatives.
• Good communication and presentation skills. Capable of communicating precisely and effectively with internal stakeholders up to GM level.
• A structured and well-organized individual.
• Self-motivated, self-directed and be able to work under pressure in a fast-paced team environment.