FP&A Business Controller

HEINEKEN Krakow; Kraków; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

HEINEKEN Kraków is seeking an FP&A Business Controller to lead financial planning and analysis, drive automation projects, and deliver insightful reporting. You will collaborate with Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain, translating data into strategic recommendations.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in business controlling, strong English, and proven leadership. The role focuses on data-driven decision support, cross-functional partnering, and continuous improvement across Poland operations.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in business controlling, FP&A, and finance-related projects.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication with senior leaders.
• Good understanding of financial statements and controlling practices.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Excellent relationship-building and cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong data storytelling and reporting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating, verifying, and ensuring the accuracy and timely delivery of FP&A HGP Business Control processes.
• Conducting comprehensive financial and business analysis to support decision-making, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and business case evaluation.
• Preparing and ensuring the quality and consistency of performance reports, management presentations and Power BI dashboards for HGP stakeholders.
• Monitoring and analyzing key cost drivers, material consumption, procurement outlooks, cash performance and input cost developments across the organization.
• Driving transformation initiatives, process standardization and continuous improvement projects focused on automation, efficiency gains and reduction of manual activities.
• Leading initiatives to improve data processing, reporting capabilities and financial planning tools across HGP, Regions and OpCos.
• Providing valuable insights and analytical support to Senior Finance Management on strategic and ad hoc business topics.
• Identifying and solving complex business and financial challenges by generating and evaluating alternative solutions.
• Building strong business partnering relationships with key stakeholders across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Planning and Business Control functions.
• Supporting decision-making processes through financial expertise, business insights and effective stakeholder management.
• Identifying capability gaps and driving functional development initiatives within the FP&A organization.
• Recruiting, developing, coaching and empowering a team of direct reports while fostering a high-performance culture.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Power BI

Data storytelling

English communication

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Education

Master’s degree in finance or accounting

Tools

Anaplan

SAP

Teams

SharePoint

Copilot concepts

Job description

FP&A Business Controller

Location: Kraków, Poland

At HEINEKEN Kraków (Heineken Business Services Poland) our success comes directly from our great people. We are a growing team of business experts in finance, accounting, data and technology ready to „WOW” the world with our expertise, passion and pride to be GREEN.

We act on our values of Passion for consumers & customers, Courage to dream & pioneer, Care for people & planet, Enjoyment of Life, always focused on being ourselves: inclusive, diverse, and open for new challenges.

Your daily tasks may include:

• coordinating, verifying, and ensuring the accuracy and timely delivery of FP&A HGPBusiness Control processes, including monthly, quarterly, annual and ad hoc activities
• conducting comprehensive financial and business analysis to support decision-making,including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, trend analysis and business caseevaluation
• preparing and ensuring the quality and consistency of performance reports,management presentations and Power BI dashboards for HGP stakeholders
• monitoring and analyzing key cost drivers, material consumption, procurementoutlooks, cash performance and input cost developments across the organization
• driving transformation initiatives, process standardization and continuous improvementprojects focused on automation, efficiency gains and reduction of manual activities
• leading initiatives to improve data processing, reporting capabilities and financialplanning tools across HGP, Regions and OpCos
• providing valuable insights and analytical support to Senior Finance Management onstrategic and ad hoc business topics
• identifying and solving complex business and financial challenges by generating andevaluating alternative solutions
• building strong business partnering relationships with key stakeholders across Finance,Procurement, Supply Chain, Planning and Business Control functions
• supporting decision-making processes through financial expertise, business insights andeffective stakeholder management
• identifying capability gaps and driving functional development initiatives within theFP&A organization
• recruiting, developing, coaching and empowering a team of direct reports whilefostering a high-performance culture

You are a good match if you have:

• master’s degree in finance, accounting or a related field
• minimum 8 years of experience in business controlling, financial planning & analysis,business case evaluation and finance-related project delivery
• strong stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influencesenior leaders
• very good understanding of financial statements, controlling practices and accountingprinciples
• strong business acumen supported by analytical, decision-making and changemanagement capabilities
• ability to work in a fast-paced environment, effectively manage multiple priorities anddeliver high-quality outcomes
• excellent relationship-building skills with the ability to gain credibility and establish trustacross different organizational levels
• strong data storytelling, presentation and reporting skills
• a problem-solving mindset with the ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-onexecution
• experience working with Power BI, Anaplan, SAP, Teams and SharePoint; familiarity withCopilot and programming concepts will be an advantage
• people management experience, including coaching, developing and leading teams
• excellent written and verbal English skills

At HEINEKEN Kraków, we take integrity and ethical conduct seriously. If someone has concerns about a possible violation of legal regulations indicated in Polish Whistleblowing Act or our Code of Business Conduct, we encourage them to speak up. Cases can be reported to global team or locally (in line with the local HBSP Whistleblowing procedure) by selecting proper option in this tool or by communicating it on hotline.