We are searching for a motivate, team-player and self-determined person, having excellent communication abilities and result oriented vision, to join our team as Business Financial Controller

The colleague we are looking for is you, if you have:

• Previous experience in FMCG (preferably in a manufacturing company) minimum 5 years experience in a similar position in Controlling department (including product costing and/or profitability analysis).
• Bachelor in economics (preferably finance and accounting)
• Preferably knowledge of using SCALA/SAP other ERP and QlikView (business intelligence)
• Strong management accounting skills including ability to effectively communicate with non-finance functions
• Proactivity and self-determination and motivation; creativity and driving to action
• Excellent Microsoft Excel and Power Point skills; knowledge of Database tools (incl. Access) is an asset
• Fluent in English; Bulgarian is an asset
• Availability for traveling incl. abroad
• Your spirit of organisation and planification of activities is mostly a fact rather a theory
• Self appraisal: keeping deadlines and the quality of your work are essential criteria
• Your experience has shown that there are many approaches to the same problem, so that the flexibility has brought you to the top.

Roles and responsibilities

Plan

• Analyze business activity (supply chain, sales and marketing) performance from financial perspective; conduct reviews of monthly results and suggest corrective actions to the stakeholders
• Plan and coordinate with other departments in order facilitate the improvement of the overall financial performance
• Contact person of the CFO and other Corporate functions

Execute

Budgeting

• Organizes the budgeting process: Annual Operating Plan and subsequent budget reviews (LE’s) for sales and marketing, production and overhead costs.
• Actively engaged in the rolling forecasts on a regular basis

Month end closing, analysis and reporting

• Perform all requested activities to ensure the quality of the monthly closing (statutory and analytical) and prepare/review necessary provisions (accruals, one-off expenditure)
• Reporting of the main financial statements (P&L, BS, WoCa, Cash Flow) & deviation analysis vs. budget and previous year.
• Prepare ad-hoc analysis (like NPV, Payback, ROI, etc.) for strategic projects
• Working capital analysis (receivables, payables and inventories) and Cash Flow monitorization.
• Profitability analysis by different perspectives: by Channels, Brands, Categories, SKUs, etc.
• Pricing simulations based on the target profitability
• Prepare reporting & presentations to executive team (actual closing)
• Create ad-hoc reports requested by management

Participation in cross-functional projects

• Support sales and supply chain teams by sharing financial knowledge and providing Finance for non-financials training, if necessary
• Regularly check of the masterdata accuracy and consistency
• Support/Assist Finance Director and the CEO in monthly/quarterly/yearly business reviews (KPI analysis and monitoring)
• Support CFO for different funding projects (data preparation, comparison and assessment of options, etc.) in relationship with banks, insurers, etc.
• Support the implementation of Corporate Policies and ensure the implementation of Group Financial Policies & procedures; participation to the annual inventory of the stocks (from financial perspective).
• Project management for cross – functional projects; financial assistance (controlling and accounting), analysis different options and propose optimal solutions.

Control

• Setup of financial KPIs for the supply chain & commercial team; controls & monitories the achievement of their achievement
• Controls and supervises the financial activity of different business units, or different countries.
• Monitories the overhead costs across the organization and control them to avoid the overspendings vs. the Budget
• Regular assessment of risks and opportunities in supply chain & commercial field, propose measures to reduce the risks and strengthen the opportunities

• Support& initiate internal audit initiatives and proactively identify weaknesses and recommend corrective actions

What we offer to the future Business Financial Controller?

• A professional and dynamic working environment
• A pleasant and modern working place
• Labour contract for undetermined period – with trial period
• A package of benefits adapted to the level of work complexity
• Trainings and personnel development programmes