Planning & Controlling Manager

Job Location: holon
Company description

Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

Diversity Statement

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.

About the Role:

Partnering with the CFO to support business decision making through profitability analysis (marginality, ROI);
Manages planning process in line with group timeline and guidelines.
Ensures monthly, session and year-end closings activities, performing variance analysis to explain deviation from planning scenarios.
Supports business in improving tracking and adherence to budget.
Supports CFO in new project development.
Supports CFO in constantly looking for efficiencies and opportunities, identifying potential risks.

Main Responsibilities:

Reporting and Analysis
• Analysing business performance on the basis of the set KPIs and proactively following up where necessary.
• Preparing and delivering management reports on a monthly and annual base.
• Monthly follow-up of differences of the results compared to budgets and forecasts.
• Making sure that all regular and ad hoc reporting is done in a timely and accurate manner.

Process and Procedure
• Management of month end, session end and Year end processes
• Implementation and improvement of inter-departmental procedures
• Documentation of all processes within department
• Implementing a control system that includes challenging costs, and the identification of potential savings.

Budgeting and forecast
• Coordinating the planning and control cycle based on the preparation of the annual accounts, forecasting and budgeting.
• Taking care of budgeting, forecasting, complex analysis, getting and sharing relevant insights with the business from the collected data;

Business controlling:
• Financial sparring partner for all departments in decision making, by pro-actively providing input based on financial data and economic analysis.
• Function as a sparring partner for the CFO and Management.
• Ensure the profitability / the rationale of investment plan is consistent with the business objectives
• Prepares P&L simulations for innovations products and roll-out
• Challenging business results where necessary.

Who we are looking for:
Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance
At least 7-10 years’ experience in similar roles
Experience gained in FMCG company and Commercial acumen
Knowledge of Accounting standards and Accounting Interface
Knowledge of Financial Planning and analysis
Knowledge of P&L Statements and Financial Reporting
Fluency both in English and Hebrew
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:

• Accuracy
• Planning / Project Management and work effectively with others
• Ability to solve problems and set priorities
• People, team and meeting management
• Decision making and Results orientation
• Conflict management
• Adaptiveness/Flexibility
• Organisational integration

Requisition ID
68460
Job function
Finance, Administration & Control
Country
Israel
City
HOLON
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