BUSINESS CONTROLLER: FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS
Short Intro and About the Job
To ensure that the BU is planning and tracking its performance regularly, through monthly forecasting and monitoring of the business activity and of its financials, and ongoing assessment of risks, opportunities and gap to targets.
About You
Level of finance functional competence required
Functional competence
- Compliance, Governance & Control
- Performance Architect
- Accounting, funding & Tax
- Strategic Thinking
Enablers
- Program, Project & Change Management
- Process Design & Continuous Improvement
- Data & Technology
- Effective Communication
Academic and trade qualifications
- Bachelor of Commerce Accounting Degree
- Honours and CIMA would be an added advantage
Work experience and skills
- At least 4 - 6 years relevant working experience as a Business Partner role for a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company
- Should ideally have worked for a multinational company
- Must have budget building and controlling experience
Personal characteristics and behavioural traits
- Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
- Personal integrity
- Strong relationship builder
- Analytical thinking
- Strong Influencing skills
- Enthusiastic with a can-do attitude
- Ability to build authentic relationships
- Be able to challenge and question status quo
- Create meaningful vision, to have a holistic and connect different parts of information
- High efficiency in systems and process development
Leadership behaviours
- CREATES : Dare to challenge and drive for transformation (actively seeks new ideas, initiates changes without fear of disrupting current practices)
- OPENS : Connects and builds authentic relationships: relates well to different people at all levels, expressing respect and a genuine interest, listens generously and understands others' perspectives and emotions.
- Influences and mobilizes stakeholders through own convictions: understands how the organisation works and successfully navigates through it, resolves conflicts and political situations effectively, influences with deep convictions
- DRIVES : Delivers value for Danone: understands own business model and drives value in all actions, monitors performance and initiates corrective actions if needed
- Works through challenges and breakdowns with resilience to achieve commitments
- EMPOWERS : Foster collective impact through teamwork and diversity: builds trust and contributes to a positive team spirit by role modelling respect, cooperation and inclusion. Balances personal goals with those of other teams or departments. Acts to break silos.
- Empowers others through involvement, delegation and trust
- SELF AWARE: Be able to step back and maintain own emotional balance, including under stress and pressure, reaches out to others and seeks help when needed
- Seeks and accepts feedback
- Takes responsibility to improve himself/herself, displaying a growth mindset
About Us, We offer and What's next
For more information about Danone, our culture, please explore careers.danone.com.
We offer:
A job which could easily turn into a career in Danone. We believe everyone is born with superpowers, something which comes natural to you. We know this uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energy, so we believe in all Danoner's potential and when we build careers based on these superpowers and when we develop everyone's potential to the fullest magic happens. This is how we like to see Talent Management in Danone.
This is a highly visible position within Danone; you will interact with Internal - Marketing, Sales Supply chain, SSD and External - Suppliers, CO-packers. Challenge, innovate, convince and find alignment when needed. This role has no direct reports.
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