Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
This role is responsible for financial controlling and cost management across Sourcing and Product Operation functions. As a business partner the focus is to enable fact-based decision making, best practice sharing, and continuous process improvement by creating transparency on impact and dependencies of core cost and service drivers.
Key Responsibilities:
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-Business partnering with senior leaders in Sourcing
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-Support execution of Sourcing strategy to improve end-to-end group performance, cost, and service levels.
-Support on FTE management across organization by business partnering with HR.
-Implement and drive workforce analytics for operational as well as strategic business and workforce planning.
-Manage cost centers and support cost center owners in all financial tasks, e.g., investment and recruitment requests.
-Control spending of respective function and cost center owners.
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-Financial Planning & Analysis
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-Drive the budgeting, forecasting and reporting process for Sourcing and Product Operation overheads (PEX & non-PEX).
-Explain deviations and identifying saving potentials.
-Own the month end closing process with ensuring correct bookings
-Develop and implement controlling-related state of the art reporting and analytic tools.
-Manage Global Business Service (GBS) on supporting on operational tasks.
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-Projects
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-Lead or support on cross functional projects
to drive work efficiency and value-adding services to the business.
-Support business case development and costs savings initiatives by challenging, identifying and quantifying improvement potential.
-Join or lead financial analysis in other pillar of sourcing finance team such as product costs or trade finance related topics.
Key Relationships:
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-Senior leadership in Sourcing & Product Operations in multiple countries.
-Head office finance teams in headquarters and local accountant in each sourcing origin.
-HR Function
-Supporting Function (IT, GBS)
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
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-Excellent analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources
-Ability to maneuver and work in a consistently changing and cross-functional environment within different management levels of a global organization
-Result oriented and pro-active with a high degree of customer orientation
-Very good business partnering skills e.g. communication and presentation skills
-Experience in using business intelligence and analytic software. E.g. Power BI, Tableau, Qlik
-Knowledge of building modeling and reporting through coding (Python, R, SQL, DAX etc.) and , Power BI
-Excellent MS Office skills (especially Excel and PowerPoint)
-Fluent in business English (written and spoken)
-People management experience is an advantage
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
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-University degree in Business Administration/ Finance/ Accounting or equivalent background in related fields.
-5+ years of experience in multinational companies with roles involving either strong financial business partnering, FP&A or analytical requirements
-Knowledge of fast-moving consumer goods, fashion industry and/or retail is an advantage
