Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Global Brand & Sales Finance team delivers insights, including early trend analysis, to guide key business decisions and achieve financial goals. We enable capabilities, best practices, and governance across markets, categories and channels.

Within this team the Global Sales Finance team acts as the financial business partner and advisor to the Global Sales Leadership team. The Global Sales Finance team creates state of the art financial analysis and transparency towards Senior Leadership and supports markets in using standardized capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

Business Partnering:

• Partner with assigned HQ Global Sales teams (Retail and Wholesale) incl. SVP Global Sales to create financial forecasts and budget for their responsibility area
• Work with HQ Global Sales HR to ensure adequate personnel expenses reporting and forecasting is in place
• Enable fact based decisions by creating transparency around overhead and marketing expenses spend of the assigned teams
• Drive budgeting, forecasting and management of cost centers and project internal orders
• Lead medium/small size projects related to HQ Sales & Brand controlling processes. Implement change and ensure sustainability of achievements
• Communicate with other departments around controlling processes, especially related to recharges and target shifts
• Ensure financial guidelines and timelines are respected and identify critical processes & advice solutions
• Educate business partners and make them responsible for compliance to financial guidelines and accounting processes

Reporting, Analysis & Expertise:

• Ensure that standardized reporting and commentary, together with ad hoc analysis around costs structure (actuals and forecast) is available in cooperation with Brand and Sales finance teams
• Manage cost centers and support cost center owners in all financial tasks (e.g. purchase requests, cost recharges, ACT tracking etc.)
• Develop, execute and further improve post mortem analysis of actual spend and key projects
• Develop and implement communication packages (emails/presentations) to present derived results and recommendations
• Support developing new processes for forecasting and actuals tracking across HQ Sales and Brand teams, with special focus on improving forecasting accuracy

Innovation & Strategy:

• Look continuously for synergies with other finance teams in order to optimize controlling processes
• Go after efficiency and simplification in analysis, reporting and communication
• Develop new processes, standards or operational plans and deliver results with direct impact on the department targets
• Manage small/medium sized projects and/or actively participate; drive the implementation of findings and sustainability of achievements.

Key Relationships:

• HQ Global Sales teams (especially Global Wholesale and Retail teams)
• SVP Global Sales
• HR Global Sales
• Brand and Sales Finance
• Group Functions Controlling & VCM Team

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Pro-active (engaging & impact-oriented) mindset, ability to think end-to-end
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with different international cultures
• Strong controlling expertise
• Business understanding of different sales channels in general
• High degree of customer orientation. The ability to see the customer’s point of view. Support but also challenge!
• Ability to manoeuvre in consistently changing and fast-pacing environment
• Ability to operate cross-functionally
• Good communication skills for persuasion and convincing others
• Ability to think and act strategically and develop operational plans
• Excellent knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint; analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources. AFO / Power BI is a plus.
• Advanced user skills in SAP-PEU
• Basic Ariba (Non-trade procurement) experience is welcome
• Business fluency in English (written and spoken)

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Finance or Accounting
• Previous experience in controlling and/or FP&A positions
• Familiarity with SAP and BI
• 3-5 years related experience