Category Controlling Analyst
Job Location: Greenford
Job Location: Greenford
Company Description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
About the Role:
Being part of the Category controlling team and working with senior controller you will support decision making process for related category commercial & operational teams with P&L evaluations. You will help to define targets per category and related drill down for planning, budget and forecast processes. You will support the closure process by ensuring compliance with Ferrero principles. You will actively monitor the performance of the brand and propose actions to achieve targets and improve brand profitability.
Main Responsibilities:
You will act as a business partner to category managers, providing financial insights to support decision-making. You will play a crucial role in helping business planning, budgeting, and forecast processes for the related category by analyzing category financial results and by identifying related improvement areas. You will provide support to local functions to meet their budgetary targets. You will be responsible for planning & developing innovation P&Ls for new launches, ensuring timely monitoring of updates leading the GO/NO GO decision, by leveraging related Business Cases.
You will be responsible for analyzing financial data and setting up ad hoc reporting for delivering insights and decision-making support. You will conduct detailed financial analysis to monitor the category’s performance and initiatives’ ROI. You will be responsible for the preparation of standard reporting for main stakeholders, consistently with Group institutional calendar (monthly, BDG, forecast and Strategic Plan) and for carrying out related variance analysis . You will perform category financial analysis by customer/ portfolio range in order to foster portfolio/channel optimization. You will ensure that accounting principles and GOS are applied by category/Brand and will oversees all the Category P&L lines until Marketing contribution and related main balance sheet items (Stock, Provision etc).
Who we are looking for:
Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance
Experience in similar roles gained in matrix organization within the FMCG sector
Knowledge and strong interests in financial analysis preparation, accounting, planning, taxes, or administration preferred
Strong Excel and Powerpoint skills as well as SAP/HFM
Attention to detail
Fluency in English
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
Strong analytical mind, attention to details on one hand and great organisational skills on the other, are the key to success. Employee contribution and engagement at Ferrero is based on the individual, team and organisation dimension, so you should have the ability to work independently, as a team member and build good relations with stakeholders on all levels. Being flexible and dealing with a dynamic working environment and embedding new knowledge and skills in existing competencies will definitely help you to become a high performer here.