Controller

GENERAL

• Ensure compliance with Group Controlling guidelines and maintain an effective financial reporting framework.
• Design and manage financial systems, reporting processes, and information distribution to budget owners.
• Drive controlling efficiency through process improvements, automation, and enhanced business insights.
• Support bottom-up planning, forecasting, budgeting, and long-term financial planning with high accuracy.
• Evaluate business initiatives through cost-benefit analysis, financial modelling, and business case development.
• Partner with budget holders to provide financial guidance, identify risks and opportunities, support budget reallocations, and ensure budget adherence.
• Foster strong stakeholder relationships and facilitate informed decision-making through data-driven insights and knowledge sharing.

COMMERCIAL ANALYSIS & BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Partner with Sales and Marketing teams, acting as a trusted advisor by providing insights, challenging assumptions, and supporting decision-making.
• Manage Sales Controlling activities, including trade terms, customer budgets, P&Ls, profitability analysis, trade term simulations, and exposure reduction initiatives.
• Support Marketing Controlling through media, sponsorship, athlete, event, and agency contract analysis, budget reallocations, spend tracking, effectiveness assessments, and cost benchmarking.
• Conduct financial analytics, scenario modelling, and profitability assessments for product launches, pricing strategies, and business initiatives.
• Perform ad hoc financial analyses, including price increase impact, volume elasticity, and "what-if" simulations to support business decisions.
• Develop and maintain product pricing frameworks, including list price recommendations, launch profitability evaluations, and post-launch performance reviews.
• Ensure budget adherence and provide financial guidance to budget owners across Sales and Marketing functions.

REPORTING & ANALYSIS

• Prepare / validate the weekly sales report. Calculates the volume change, price change and product mix impact by Key Account. Calculates the customer mix impact on the total P&L. Calculates the exposure between customers.
• Calculates/reports the major KPIs (Financial Sales, DSO), basic exposure rate, advanced exposure rate.
• Prepares reports on aggregated or on detailed level by GKA and LKA comparing the profitability YTD, comparing PY vs CY vs RE vs Year to Go.
• Prepares the international exposure rate report. Prepares and distributes a detailed monthly report including comments on brand, project (= internal order), account, and cost center level using SAP, BI and Hyperion for each budget owner and GM

PLANNING & FORECASTING

• Coordinate the Business Plan/Revised Estimate data collection and data entry.
• Coordinate timings and input needed during the budget process.
• Aggregates/consolidates the individual plans to a total plan.
• Supports and challenges the budget owners during the planning process. Prepares year to go best estimates.