Financial Business Partner (m/f/d)

Job description

Come and join MARS in Cologne or Verden (close to Bremen) as

Financial Business Partner

The main purpose of this role is to business partner the Verden/Cologne Senior Line Managers in all key financial decisions. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, directing, supporting and monitoring all activities. Working as part of broad cross-functional teams, this role is accountable for developing the full business model and providing transparency on financial shape, delivery and risks of each activity.

Key Responsibilities:

·  Business partner the site management teams
·  Leads the development of the business model (P&L, Capital spend)
·  provide financial advice to ensure sound financial and operational decisions
·  Support strategy definition and implementation
·  develop and evaluate longer term strategies
·  Provides visibility of the actual performance of the business unit
·  Represents Finance in cross-segment project groups
·  Proactively collects underlying assumptions for the project business model from different functions and applies critical view on those assumptions to be able to deliver an accurate P&L
·  Consolidates all inputs to produce a full P&L and provides transparency on the underlying assumptions and the key output KPIs (Volume, Sales, Incremental Sale, Margin)
·  Evaluates the performance of the project post launch by comparing Actuals to plan and recommends course corrections in case of gaps

Qualifications:

·  University Degree / Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field
·  Robust S&F background – minimum of 5-8 years of experience in finance roles
·  Good understanding of Supply or Manufacturing
·  Strong communication skills are essential
·  Ideally SAP and Helios experience
·  Fluent in English

What you can expect from us:

·  A fantastic opportunity for an experienced financial expert to join a great Finance community and business partner with great line managers
·  Flexible work location (Cologne area or Bremen/Hamburg area)
·  Working in an international environment
·  Working in a family owned company with strong core values where associates are the core of everything we do
·  Exciting national and international development opportunities
·  Enrolment to world class training via our Mars University centre of learning excellence

….just to name a few!

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