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:

Business partnering with senior leaders in Sourcing 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.

 

Financial Planning & Analysis 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.

 

Projects 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:

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:

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:

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