Senior Controller - Fashion and Fanwear

As Senior Controller at Global Consumer Products, you will support the Manager Controlling in all aspects of Controlling (e.g. monthly reporting, business planning & forecasting) and build strong relationships with the Consumer Product Business and the Headquarter Controlling Teams.

As a member of a small team of Finance Professionals, you support the Manager Controlling as well as the Business Counterparts strongly in all Controlling and Finance related matters. You are looking for constant improvement opportunities and best practices to drive efficiency and effectiveness. Furthermore, you share insights and new ideas, as well as analysing and highlighting risks and opportunities.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:

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• BUSINESS PARTNERING

With your service-oriented work approach you create a productive atmosphere but are likewise also ready to challenge your counterparts. You rely on a sound financial knowledge when giving recommendations and facts-based insights.

• MONTH END CLOSING

You are responsible for the correct Month and Year End Closings of your area of responsibility. Thereby you coordinate topics such as accruals, recharges and outstanding items in cooperation with the Budget Owners. Furthermore, you make sure that all systems (SAP/BI/Hyperion) are correctly reconciled.

• REPORTING AND ANALYSIS

You punctually create and send out weekly and monthly reports with a full, highly qualitative and detailed analysis of the results to business budget owners, managers and present them in meetings. Thanks to your distinct analytical comprehension you excel at working with big datasets and can answer complex questions in a meaningful and insightful manner.

• PLANNING AND FORECASTING

You coordinate the business plan and revised estimate process for several departments (Design, Product Management, Marketing and Sales). You support the budget owners during the planning phase. Furthermore, you acquire a deep understanding for planned projects and provide planning reports and analysis to the business.

• FINANCE PROJECTS

You strengthen your knowledge for our processes and our system landscape and continuously work at improving existing finance processes as well as the used tools. Thanks to your deep system understanding, you act as SAP Key User and coordinate technical questions. Based on your previous experiences you are significantly involved in developing controlling reports and tools, defining new requirements and implementing them with internal counterparts (e.g., IT SAP, Accounting) during projects.

EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

• 5-7 years experience in Controlling Experience with SAP R/3 (incl. SD & MM)
• SAP BI and SAP Analytics Cloud
• Experience in fashion and sport apparel industry is of advantage
• Excellent MS Office knowledge (Excel) and IT affine personality
• Experience in Tax- and/or Accounting is of advantage
• Strong analytical and organizational skills and high self-initiative Communication talent and open personality
• Willingness to work in a dynamic environment
• Travel 0-10%