FP&A Team Leader Commercial

About the assignment

Key objectives of the role:

• Leading the FP&A team of 8-10 analysts.
• Proactively driving culture of continuous improvement.
• Contributing to the FP&A post transition journey – successful application of Target Operating Model.
• Developing the team to be a Business partner to the navigators to further improve insights, particularly in the area of sales and margin analytics, OPEX analysis and OWC.
• Executing FP&A processes for respective countries within EMEA region, like planning and budgeting, that support the strategic objectives of the region.
• Proactively helping other team members to grow and develop.

Responsibilities:

• Delivering FP&A roadmap/initiative and defining targets and goals for the team.
• Contributing to the setup, stabilization and improvement of the FP&A department.
• Acting as a financial planning and performance management process owner on the regional level and leading, designing, executing the Group wide financial planning and performance management process.
• Coordinating the execution of main control tasks by the regional FP&A team and facilitating efficient collection of quantitative and qualitative data, analysis and transformation of data into insight in order to deliver correct, timely and complete information that supports decision-making.
• Following policies and guidelines for the design, implementation and improvement of budget, planning and forecasting processes and timetables.
• Establishing effective collaboration on the Regional level to support Head of FP&A, Commercial Controller and other Finance stakeholder.

Perks & Benefits

• Fresh Fruit
• Team Building Events
• Learning Cafeteria (incl. Percipio)
• CSR Initiatives
• Recognition
• Luxmed
• Multisport
• Additional Insurance

About you

Requirements: 

• Finance professional with experience in a management role in strategic/transactional/operational finance and capable of analyzing complex processes and issues.
• Strong understanding of FP&A from a regional perspective.
• Master’s degree in accounting (i.e. RA, CA / CMA), Finance or Business (i.e. MBA) or equivalent.
• Strategic thinker with strong financial and business analytical skills with the ability to analyze and assimilate data for critical business decisions in a timely manner.
• Ability to communicate effectively across all layers in the organization.
• Ability to manage and connect stakeholders on different levels of the organization and streamline and transfer standardized processes to lower cost areas/departments.
• Previous experience in setting up and managing FP&A team or equivalent departments with regional scope.
• Previous management experience, proven people manager with the ability to build strong teams and lead and inspire others.
• Demonstrated success in managing complex projects.