Finance Business Partner

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**Finance Business Partner**
Our high performing and engaged finance team supports and challenges its partners to drive value for the Group. We provide excellent decision support, insightful financial analyses and reporting, and cost-efficient processes while ensuring a sound control environment.
The job holder of this position will bring as Finance Business Partner critical commercial finance skills to bear across the ITALY organization, providing financial insights and support to the team which will play a key role in the decision-making process to drive the business forward. The job holder will be responsible for: - supporting the budgeting and forecasting process,
- driving the direct cost management for all functions,
- supporting the monthly performance reviews, thereby creating in-depth analyses of the performance vs. budget, forecasts, and prior periods, and providing insightful commentaries,
- supporting commercial decision making by identifying opportunities as well as recognizing and escalating undesired developments and potential risks & issues and proposing corrective actions,
- providing finance support to M&A; and other projects, programmes or activities as required. The job holder will be part of the international finance team with close ties to peers and the wider finance community within the region as well as in the headquarter functions. **Key Responsibilities**
**Financial Analysis/ Management Reporting/ Business Planning**
- Drive the direct cost management for the market (headcount / labour costs, supply chain costs, marketing budget, paid advertising, supplier funding, other overheads), thereby constantly track performance and create in-depth analyses.
- Support the budgeting and forecasting process including building assumptions and reasoning, liaising with other functions, guaranteeing alignment,



consolidation of the forecast, and final load into the respective reporting tools.
- Support monthly performance reviews for the market. Thereby, provide insightful commentaries, including root cause and risk analyses. Regularly track performance and create in-depth analyses as required to monitor performance vs. budget, forecasts, and prior periods.
- Identify opportunities for P&L; optimization/ growth and assist other teams to drive them further, in line with strategy.
- Provide finance support in the preparation of business cases and investment proposals as required.
- Develop further the local finance reporting for the Italy market, thereby setup and maintain high level reporting standards and ensure corrective actions are taken in case of data quality issues or identified errors.
- Prepare ad-hoc reports and analyses for different stakeholders in the organisation as required.
- Support the monthly closing process through sense-checking of outcomes and updating accruals.
- Support the finance team in meeting Group reporting submission deadlines. **Decision Support**
- Support the market teams’ decision-making process by providing financial insights and support.
- Support the market teams on their way towards a data-driven decision-making process.




- Develop and maintain effective relationships with relevant functional team colleagues as well as the Market’s management and wider teams.
- Find new and innovative ways to present data to ensure that the business fully understands the trends, issues, and opportunities.
- Recognise and escalate potential risks and issues in a timely manner. **Projects**
- Provide Finance support to other projects, programmes or activities as required.
- Work with the wider Finance team to develop and use common approaches and practices.
- Link with the wider EMEA Finance team to collaborate in specific projects and/ or sharing of best practices. Personal & organizational development
- Establish a continuous improvement mindset through constantly questioning the status quo. Proactively address potential areas for improvements.
- Be an effective team member within the finance team.
- Manage own development proactively and demonstrate role model behaviour. **What We’re Looking For**
- At least 5 years’ work experience in FP&A;/ Controlling/ Finance
- University degree in Business Administration / Economics / Finance or related disciplines; alternatively professional accountancy qualification.
- Solid finance understanding (specifically in financial business support) and overall business experience in commercial environments.
- Solid knowledge of accounting (local GAAP, IFRS) and financial statements (B/S, P/L, Cash Flow).
- Working experience with Finance IT systems including the usage of Excel and the familiarity with SAP and Data Warehouses. **Skills**: - Analysis, forecasting and reporting skills, with the ability to translate financial data into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Ability to analyse data and situations quickly from different perspectives, identify issues/opportunities and propose solutions/alternatives.
- Ability to connect the

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