• Stakeholder engagement & relationship management including
stakeholder visits
• Set-up, review & baseline business & operational KPI’s
• Has P&L responsibility & Cost leadership
• Out of the above 5+ years of experience in driving organization
change management and process transformation including digital
• Experience in coaching and mentoring leadership teams - Build team
capabilities, individual developments & create career path
• Experience in supporting in large strategic impact projects
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to interact
effectively with all levels of management
• Ability to prioritize, manage time effectively, escalate / resolve issues
appropriately
Managerial
Requirements
Executive presence, Story-telling, Leadership skills, C-Level
communication, transformation, Conflict management, Stakeholder
management & visits, Change management, Project management,
Team management, AI & Digital, AGILE ways of working
Required
Technical
Competencies
• SAP, MicroStrategy, Tagetik, Looker, Power BI & other forecasting,
budgeting and reporting tools within industry
• MS Office Suite/ Teams
Required
Functional skills
• Drive culture and mind set change within teams
• Part of leadership team in driving Organization strategy &
Transformation
• Lead finance target picture roadmap realization for FPNA
(Controlling), Process and managing transition & projects, adhering to
project milestones & timelines
• Monitor, track and control project outcomes to resolve issues,
conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
• Experience in leading teams in specific processes like Forecasting,
budgeting, strategic planning and monitoring (value creation plans),
reporting and analysis, Management financial performance overview
and support management decision.
• Responsible for presenting financial performance updates at all
relevant meetings and reporting on all the key metrics of
performance;
• Ensure that key performance reporting is accessible, user focused,
and action orientated;
• Ensure complying with all corporate governance (Capex approval,
budget etc.) and identifying and escalating risk when required
• Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgeting and
overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting in compliance and
regulatory guidelines and IFRS.
• Responsible for the forecast and reporting of Free Cash Flow, being
able to analyze and propose corrective actions;
• Delivering value to countries through business case realization &
improving customer experience (NPS)
• Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall
program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of
strategic objectives
• Develop and deliver proposals for new process transitions and
presentations to various audiences, including GBS Leadership team,
sponsors, CFOs and key stakeholders
• Background in Lean Six Sigma is a plus
Job Description
Job Requirements
• IFRS Certification is a plus
• Exposure to IT industry / running IT projects (Automation / ERP
implementation) is a plus
• International Exposure (Min 6 months) is a plus
• Experience in using big databases
• Understand the interdependencies between margin, stock and
profitability in a wholesales environment and improve the integrity of
information for decision making
• Understand the general logic of stock formula on all main price levels
and improve the data quality for METRO
• Learn how to use the already developed solutions and finetune them
further
• Develop new ideas and define development tasks to improve the data
integrity reports and solutions. Follow up the tasks of developers in
daily / weekly data integrity meetings
• Develop concepts for improving data integrity within and between IT
applications. Follow up issues reported to 8 source and target
applications (goods management systems for stores and logistic
platforms, SAP and BI) in weekly / biweekly meetings
• Support colleagues in 20 countries by providing 4-5 daily / weekly /
monthly data integrity reports (quality assured by you) and analyse
the results to suggest the necessary actions for improving data
quality both for financial reporting and operational steering worldwide
• Subject matter expert for buying price implementation in different
applications like in the future-oriented M|Stock Evaluation solution
(the new transactional database saved in stock formula logic)
Behavioral
Competencies
• Proactive and Solution oriented attitude
• Leading by example
• Integrity and honesty first approach
• Result self-driven and high motivation
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills
• Cost Leadership
• AI & Digital
• Open to travel & Hybrid working
• Strategical thinking and very efficient analytical skills
• Passionate work
• Self-checking and quality assurance attitude whatever you do
• Managerial skills to motivate and lead team members or developer