MSC Finance Analyst, Food EMEA - CC (m/w/d)

Job Purpose and Impact

The Finance Analyst for Manufacturing and Supply Chain job performs moderately complex finance business partnering activities in support of business decision making. With limited supervision, this job drafts financial reports, analyzes financial data and proposes recommendations on budgeting and forecasting processes. This job also participates in the continuous improvement of management information systems, reporting standards and business metric development to drive data informed business decisions. Lastly, job requires constant finance partnering to Chocolate plant managers and act as plant CFO.

Key Accountabilities

• REPORT DRAFTING: Drafts moderately complex financial and non financial reports for internal partners by gathering, prioritizing and analyzing financial and non financial data and key performance indicators.
• BUSINESS PERFORMANCE TRACKING: Prepares reports and dashboards to track business performance against plans, budgets, forecasts and other key performance indicators and draws linkages between non financial key performance indicators and actual costs for effective tracking, analysis and reporting.
• DECISION SUPPORT: Identifies insights based on financial analysis and research to support strategic business decision making.
• COST ANALYSIS: Analyzes costs associated with products, projects, or specific plants to help better understand cost drivers and opportunities for improvement.
• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Participates in continuous improvement initiatives within the department by researching industry trends and accounting standards and finding opportunities to improve data integrity and relevancy and to increase effectiveness and efficiency of management information systems and reporting standards.
• MANAGEMENT REPORTING: Implements the approved effective effective management reporting practices to ensure data integrity and relevancy and to communicate the reporting and costs at the local level.
• RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Maintains positive relationships with business leaders and business teams to understand local and regional business needs.
• RISK & CONTROL REPORTING: Reviews various moderately complex reports including risk and mitigation controls reports, custom transaction code reports and sensitive role reports for gap assessment and cleanup activities to identify and address any gaps, vulnerabilities, or inefficiencies in an organization's control environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
• Fluency in English.

Preferred qualification:

• Additional language skill – German is an advantage
• Good proficiency in Excel
• Proactive and self-motivated approach to work.
• Openness to adopting and utilizing AI-driven solutions.
• Strong commercial awareness and business acumen.
• SAP knowledge or experience is an advantage.
• Valid driver's license is required.

Location details:
Country - Germany.
State/province - Berlin
City - Berlin