Senior Finance Manager, Global Direct E-Commerce

<p>Logitech is the Sweet Spot for people who want their actions to have a positive global impact while having the flexibility to do it in their own way.</p><p></p><p></p><p><b>The Team and Role:</b></p><p><span>With a fast-moving, innovative culture and strong balance sheet, Logitech aims to extend human potential in work &amp; play by designing software-enabled hardware solutions that drive superior performance when gaming and superior productivity while at work. We’re looking for the right person to join our finance team. Is that you?</span></p><p></p><p><span>We are looking for a Senior Finance Manager, Global Direct E-Commerce, to support the Head of Global Direct E-Commerce (GDE) on a journey of consistent sales growth and profit improvement, while ensuring strong processes and controls are in place on financial planning &amp; reporting.</span></p><p></p><p>The role is based in one of our European offices, preferably in Utrecht, but also in Paris, Munich, or London.</p><p></p><p><span>The SR Finance Manager, Global Direct E-Commerce, is a critical and multi-faceted role. While it will involve some recurring tasks every quarter (ensuring the books are closed correctly, that SOX controls are performed, etc.), it will also require some critical thinking &amp; advanced modeling capabilities to explore growth opportunities (geographic expansion, strategic engagements with external partners, commercial &amp; go-to-market (GTM) strategies, etc.).</span></p><p></p><p><span>This role has the potential to give the successful candidate relatively high exposure to Senior Leadership, because GDE is a very strategic business at Logitech.</span></p><p><span>In this role, you will be a member of the GDE Leadership Team, and will provide finance &amp; business analytics support to the entire GDE organization, ranging from the Tech team (Long-Term / R&amp;D-like investments) to the Marketing team (incl. modeling of advertising impacts) to the Commercial team (where your support will be expected on business planning &amp; go-to-market analyses).</span></p><p></p><p><span><b>This finance role has a full P&amp;L responsibility that you will manage together with the Head of GDE. But this role goes beyond finance, with the ownership of the e-commerce business analytics</b>. <b><span> </span></b>You will report to the Global Head of Sales Finance &amp; Operations, a team that you will collaborate with, including benchmarking GDE’s performance with other GTM channels.</span></p><p></p><p><span>The Senior Finance Manager, Global E-Commerce, will play a key role in offering an unbiased and independent view on the business and on assessing the financial impact of the decisions that need to be made. She/he will be a key enabler who ensures the Global Commercial Organisation (GCO) guidelines are implemented.</span></p><p><span>The primary business interactions in that position will be the global GDE teams, both Global and Regional. From a functional side, there will be frequent interactions with the regional and global finance teams as well as with the GCO Sales Operations team.</span></p><p><span>From a commercial standpoint, the position will give you an opportunity to work in close contact with the realities of the E-Commerce business worldwide. </span></p><p></p><p><b><u>Your Contribution</u></b></p><p><span>Be Yourself. Be Open. Stay Hungry and Humble. Collaborate. Challenge. Decide and just Do. </span> Share our passion for Equality and the Environment. <span>These are the behaviors you’ll need for success at Logitech. In this role you will:</span></p><ul><li><p><span>Support the Head of GDE and his team in making financially sound decisions, driving profitable sales growth, and improving contribution margin.</span></p></li><li><p><span>P&amp;L ownership for the GDE Business.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Business &amp; financial performance analysis &amp; reporting of the GDE business.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Ensure plans reflected in the forecast submissions can be reasonably achieved and/or that material deviations to these plans are transparently communicated.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Financial planning (short-term but also multi-year).</span></p></li><li><p><span>Help improve communication &amp; guidance with the Regions, to ensure harmonization in the way the GDE performance is being analyzed.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Play a key finance advisory role in GDE development &amp; expansion projects.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Financial modeling of business opportunities.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Business partnering with GDE teams.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Guardian of GDE accounting rigor &amp; compliance.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Transform the way we collect, analyze &amp; use underlying e-commerce data.</span></p></li><li><p><span>Manage a small team of analysts who focus on the GDE underlying business drivers.</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><u>Your Skills &amp; Qualifications</u></b></p><p><span>For con