Finance / Controller OOJ - 32837

Finance / Controller

A Financial Controller's typical duties include tracking, reporting, and analyzing budget variances. Reviewing the company's financial statements to ensure they are accurate. Preparing month-end reports for management, including profit and loss statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.

Job Summary: Finance professional with ability to understand and monitor business performances and trends as well as in-depth technical knowledge of P&L structure and experience in the FMCG sector (preferably food & beverage) in the U.S., Canada, and Mexican market through specialty distributors is required.

Competences and Responsibilities:

• Support the team in all financial activities and decisions and act as the primary point of contact between business units.
• Preparation of budgets and phasing by clients and product lines.
• Top line: volumes, prices, revenues
• Costs: promotion activities plan, rebates, product placement fees (slotting/listing), adv, marketing and trade marketing
• Support sales and marketing team in the preparation of sales forecast
• Support the Business Control and Administrative functions in accounting closures and reporting (on a monthly and annual basis)

Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of experience as a Finance / Controller in companies with a retailers through Distributor business model.
• Analysis of business performances including sales, costs, G&A.
• Analysis of promotion activities results
• Support for pricing definition activities
• Ad hoc reporting and profitability analysis supporting the management team
• Analysis of actual/budget variances and according to corporate KPIs
• Working capital control and analysis
• Advanced use of Excel (pivot tables) Power Point and Word
• Use of Promotion Activities SW Tools and Distributor portals
• Experience with Retailer, Distributor business
• Experience working with an international company

Excellent growth potential!