Controller Manager

**Company Description**:
The Controller Manager is responsible for lead the financial forecast maintaining the profitability mindset across the leadership team assuring deliverable of all Planning cycles and Controlling corporate reports within the company in compliance with corporate guidelines and ensuring realistic and good quality plans jointly with budget owners. This position must act as a company business partner, in order to guarantee understanding, comprehension and commitment of business team with financial statements, ensuring also that organization achieves its result targets in a very efficiency and profitable way. Interact with all the management team to ensure accuracy and realistic scenarios for each cluster.

**GENERAL**

Guarantees full compliance with the Group Controlling guideline

Ensures a timely distribution of financial information (plan & actual) to every budget holder by sending out reports, by allowing system access and by presenting the information in regular meetings

Promotes efficiency in Controlling in order to minimize time spent for report generation and increases time for analysis, commenting and insights sharing

Supports the establishment of a true bottom-up planning process and the development of a local planning calendar based on the group planning timetable allowing for sufficient review time and feedback cycles

Contributes to a high forecasting accuracy of business plans, revised estimates, and long-term forecasts

Builds a solid relationship with budget holders based on mutual respect and trust

**MONTH END CLOSING**

Ensure the correct allocation of expenditures and accrual supports

**REPORTING & ANALYSIS**

Calculates advance exposure rate between channels

Prepares and distributes a detailed monthly report including comments on brand, project, account, and cost center level using BI for each budget owner and GM

Prepare and ensure the analysis of Value Chain and information upload into the HQ App (VCM) delivering deep analysis of profitability in the country across the channels

**PLANNING & FORECASTING**

Aggregates/consolidates the individual plans to a total plan

Supports and challenges the budget owners during the planning process

Prepares year to go best estimates

Updates allocation keys and performs allocations for budgeting

**BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP**

Acts as a contact and sparring partner for the Sales, Marketing, Operations, HR Managers

Knows trade terms (on & off invoice) of customers, their budgets and the customer P&L

Prepares trade term impact simulations, challenges assumptions and profitability

Works closely with the KAMs to calculate promotional ROI/AER (Advance Exposure Rate)

Matches POS/VISIT placement plans to budget, update on placement status

Benchmarks the costs of marketing activities and their impact on the consumer and challenges where appropriate. Considers potential 3rd party sponsoring income and question assumptions

Knows the contract terms of logistics service providers for finished goods and visit material

Evaluates new product launches and their impact on profitability

Prepares scenarios and simulations with the input from the budget owners and models the impact

Prepares product launch proposals jointly with KAM and calculates profitability

Lead with the business areas monthly finance analysis (Planning and Post mortem analysis)

Challenge costs, such as Sales Investments, Indirect, Marketing event costs, etc., to ensure the best negotiation for Red Bull, always looking for the lower and more efficient cost, by performing biddings in partnership with Operations area for all major projects

**Qualifications**:
10 years’ experience at finance (Chief Accountant, Controllership, Business Controlling or Marketing and Sales Controller). 5 years in Controlling positions is a plus

Graduation Business Administration, Economics, Accounting; Strategic, Project Manager, etc. (Not Mandatory)

IT literate, excellent MS Excel knowledge, SAP, Hyperion,familiarity with any integrated business analysis tool is a strong plus (BI/cognos/essbase etc). ERP implementation is also a plus

In depth understanding of promotional mechanics and the related financial impact

Highly analytical and very skilled individual in the area of profitability analysis

Ability to quickly identify and analyze risks & impacts and able to define alternatives

Good communication and presentation skills. Capable of communicating precisely and effectively with internal stakeholders up to GM level

A structured and well-organized individual

Must be self-motivated, self-directed and be able to work under pressure in a fast-paced team environment

English language skills

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