Sr. Manager Value Creation Management (m/f/d)

<p> </p> <p>Purpose &amp; Overall Relevance for the Organization:</p> <p> </p> <p>The Corporate Controlling function plays an integral part in the financial steering of the company. It includes all aspects of management reporting, financial planning, budgeting, and performance management on a company level. The analyses and reports provide transparency to the Executive Board and drive both operational and strategic decision making for our matrix organization spanning across global functions and business generating entities (markets).</p> <p>As a Senior Manager Value Creation Management, you will play a critical role in driving advanced analyses, evaluating different strategic options, and developing recommendations in the areas of Strategic Cost and investment management, and ensuring we achieve our profitability growth targets. You will work in a fast-paced, highly visible environment, liaise with a broad set of senior stakeholders in the Finance leadership and FP&amp;A teams as well as functional leaders, and business development teams.</p> <p> </p> <p>Key Responsibilities: </p> <ul> <li>Drive rigorous companywide OOH and FTE analytics for senior management, mostly focusing on planning and forecasting, to enable effective tactical steering and strategic decision making</li> <li>Support entire HQ Finance team with OOH integration in strategic and operational plans (e.g. from steering and forecast process, annual budgeting to strategic plans)</li> <li>Act as a consultant to other HQ Finance teams supporting them on high-stakes projects and important communications to senior management </li> <li>Strengthen OOH analytics to assure holistic and cross-functional understanding of key OOH drivers and enable identification of key efficiency improvement opportunities across OOH areas</li> <li>Enable fact-based and efficient decision-making process by providing comprehensive and insightful financial analysis and simulations and derived balanced recommendations to the Finance Senior Leadership/Executive Team</li> <li>Drive medium sized projects, implement findings and ensure sustainability of achievements</li> <li>Supporting Value Creation Team development by coaching junior team members</li> <li>Proactively influence programs/projects and respective alignment within Corporate Controlling by acting as a business partner, consultant and/or solution provider as the situation requires and drive as well as ensure the implementation of common solutions</li> <li>Drive communication packages for senior management and the executive board</li> <li>Run and further improve communication packages to present results, recommendations and solutions for business partners</li> <li>Drive close collaboration within Corporate Controlling, Functional Strategy &amp; Head Office Team</li> <li>Seek continuous improvement in the area of responsibility</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Key Relationships:</p> <ul> <li>SVP Corporate Controlling and respective Senior Management/Leadership Team</li> <li>Finance Executive Team (SLT) and their respective PMOs</li> <li>Functional Strategy &amp; Head Office Teams</li> <li>Selected other functions across the Group based on selected projects</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Strong problem-solving skills (structuring, analysis, synthesis) </li> <li>Good understanding of FP&amp;A, controlling and finance; knowledge of IFRS is a plus</li> <li>Strategic thinking and business judgment to consider impacts and drive conclusions beyond finance</li> <li>Analytical mindset and facility with numbers</li> <li>Experience in leading x-functional projects</li> <li>Ability to draw to-the-point conclusions and recommendations</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to work independently within a global and changing environment, including completion of tasks of different complexity levels</li> <li>Good planning and organization skills, including project management skills from initiation to closure</li> <li>Ability to mediate and bring cross-functional stakeholders with different objectives to agree on a consensus</li> <li>Strong interpersonal skills (stakeholder mgmt., influencing, executive presence)</li> <li>Process orientated and end-to-end mind set driven</li> <li>Fluent in English (written and spoken)</li> <li>Excellent PowerPoint, Excel and MS Project skills (Power Query and Power BI)</li> <li>Affinity for data and some programming knowledge is a big plus (SQL / Python)</li> <li>Innovative, action-oriented, and solution-minded team player</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: </p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Advanced degree or qualification in Business, Finance, Economics or Accounting</li> <li>Minimum of 5-8 years’ experience within Finance, Management Consulting or Investment Banking</li> <li>Track record of outstanding performance in education and career</li> </ul> <p> </p>