Head of FP&A Operations (m/w/d)

BIRKENSTOCK; Pasewalk; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A prominent footwear company in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is seeking a Head of FP&A Operations to drive profitability and compliance in their production plant. You will be responsible for financial reporting, business partnering, and supporting investment projects. The ideal candidate has over 5 years in finance, with specific experience in plant controlling, and is fluent in English and German. This full-time role offers an exciting dynamic work environment and development opportunities.

Leistungen

Dynamic work environment

Excellent development opportunities

Authentic and open corporate culture

Qualifikationen

• 5 years+ experience in finance, with at least 3 years in plant controlling.
• Fluent in English (B2+) and German (B2+).
• Ability to develop and coach the plant controller.

Aufgaben

• Drive compliance, transparency, and profitability in production.
• Prepare budgets and forecasts for management.
• Present analyses, reports, and business cases to management.

Kenntnisse

Financial modeling techniques

Standard costing variance knowledge

MS Office skills

SAP knowledge

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Ausbildung

Degree in business administration or industrial engineering

Tools

MS Excel

SAP (modules: FI/CO/MM)

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

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BIRKENSTOCK is a global brand which embraces all consumers regardless of geography, gender, age and income. The company is deeply footed on a family tradition of shoemaking that can be traced back to 1774. With around 7100 employees worldwide, BIRKENSTOCK is the largest employer in the German footwear industry. To ensure our quality standards, we produce over 95% of our products in Germany and source more than 90% of our materials and components from Europe. The BIRKENSTOCK Group is headquartered in Linz am Rhein and maintains several locations in Germany, as well as sales offices in Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia.

Your Shoes To Fill

• You are driving Compliance, Transparency and Profitabilty in our most modern production plant -mostly injection molding technology- by business partnering with local organization as well as being the link to the Group Finance Function.
• You are the Business Partner to the local Managing Director and the Plant Leadership team.
• You prepare the budgets and forecasts for management.
• You prepare the regular reports (cost and performance indicators, e.g. target/actual analyses and productivity) as well as commenting on them and deriving recommendations for action.
• You prepare and present the analyses, reports and business cases for all management levels as well as ad-hoc analyses.
• You support in investment projects, e.g. by reviewing, approving and recalculating profitability calculations.
• You develop and coach the plant controller at the site, with whom you share tasks.

Your Walk Of Life

• You completed studies in business administration (or equivalent) or industrial engineering ideally with focus on controlling.
• You have 5 years+ experience in finance, at least 3 years of professional experience in plant controlling, (Standard costing variance knowledge & experience).
• You have deep understanding of financial modeling techniques and relevant KPIs.
• You have very good MS Office skills, especially MS Excel and PowerPoint together with good SAP knowledge (modules: FI/CO/MM), experience with Standard cost setups (ideally SAP COPA) and SAP4Hana is desirable.
• You have a solution-oriented and analytical personality with a distinct hands-on mentality, extraverted with ability to communicate, connect and present to different levels of organization.
• You are fluent in English (B2+) and German (B2+).

We Offer

BIRKENSTOCK offers you all the advantages of a successful, fast growing, global company: dynamic work environment, considerable design freedom, authentic and open corporate culture and excellent development opportunities. Sounds exciting? It is. We are looking forward to receiving your online application, stating your salary expectations!

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Finance and Sales

Industries

• Retail Apparel and Fashion

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