Business Controller (Commercial Planning)

General:

• Ensure full compliance with the Group Controlling guideline.
• Promotes efficiency in Controlling in order to minimize time spent for report generation and increase time for analysis, commenting and insights.
• Supports the establishment of a true bottom-up planning process.
• Contributes to a high forecasting accuracy of business plans, revised estimates and long-term forecasts.
• Builds a solid relationship with budget holders based on mutual respect and trust.
• Supporting budget reallocations, acting as a facilitator to achieve objectives.

Month End Closing:

• Perform variance analysis of Plan vs. Actual.
• Ensures master data quality and verifies the consistency of the internal order hierarchies.
• Present the monthly results to company board.

Report and Analysis:

• Prepares reports on aggregated or on detailed level, comparing the profitability YTD, comparing PY vs CY vs RE vs Year to Go.
• Prepares and distributes BI and Local reports to users.
• Prepare the Trade Sales report;

Planning & Forecast:

• Assist on the coordination of the Business Plan/Revised Estimate data collection and BI input.
• Support, train, and challenge the budget owners during the planning process.
• Manage financial structure to guarantee compliance with the guidelines.

Business Partner:

• Acts as a contact and sparring partner for the Key Account Managers.
• Works closely with the various contacts, has a service mentality but also challenges them, asks questions, gives suggestions and insights.
• Know the contract terms with Customers (fixed vs variable contract components).
• Supports the Sales Managers with value chains and scenarios simulations.
• Provide training and serve as reference of the tool for all BI users.