Senior Business Analyst Budget, Forecasting & Controlling (SAP FI/CO)

About the role

Barry Callebaut Digital (BC Digital) is on a mission to lead the digital revolution in the chocolate industry, and we're looking for a Senior Business Analyst for Budget, Forecasting & Controlling to lay the foundation of operational excellence in our finance processes. You will have the unique opportunity to shape our digital future by gathering and analyzing business requirements and translating them into functional and technological specifications and designs. This includes the design and implementation of projects with a focus on SAP FI/CO. You will closely collaborate with relevant stakeholders to identify and address recurring issues while exploring opportunities to enhance efficiency, standardization, and process improvements. In addition, you will provide configuration inputs, analyze configuration options / settings and support the implementation. Consequently, the role is responsible for the full solution from an IM perspective. In this position, you will play a key role in turning our aspirations of a digital transformation into reality and lifting Barry Callebaut to the next level.

Key responsibilities include

• Work independently on business processes and application solutions specifically focusing on Budget, Forecasting & Controlling.
• Gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into technological and functional frameworks, workflow processes, or other relevant documentation.
• Support the development of the solution architecture and design of IT solutions, e.g. SAP FI/CO.
• Provide day-to-day operational support for related activities, responding to related inquiries and issues.
• Gather requirements and pinpoint process and system enhancements best practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify opportunities for required enhancements, potential gaps, governance requirements, and more.
• Design business process documentation, test plans, and workflow user acceptance testing.
• Oversee the design, planning, execution, monitoring, and refinement of testing processes
• Prepare configuration settings or scripts for deployment to the target systems or applications.
• Develop and maintain reports and dashboards to monitor the performance of relevant processes.
• Work with resources from multiple competence centers across the globe.
• Support the Digital Finance Team on Financial Planning, Budget Management, and Forecasting & Controlling.
• Supervise and occasionally guide Business Analysts.
• Keep up to speed with “best practice” evolution in respective business process areas of Financial Planning, Budget Management, and Forecasting & Controlling.

About you

• Strong finance background, e.g. in the manufacturing or consumer goods industry (food & beverages industry is a plus).
• Minimum 4 years experience in SAP FI/CO with a focus on Financial Planning, Budget Management, Forecasting & Controlling, and with a good knowledge of the integration with other modules and in particular with Finance.
• Controlling module mandatory:
  o Cost Center Accounting
  o Cost Element Accounting
  o Profit Center Accounting
  o Internal Orders
  o Profitability Analysis
  o Product Cost Controlling
  o Budgeting & Forecasting and Rolling Forecast
• Expertise in finance technologies, e.g. ERP, budget or forecasting management systems, Tagetik.
• Independent and self-driven personality.
• Skills to create internal and external partnerships/networks across the organization.
• Analytical mind and attention to detail make you an ideal candidate.
• Strong communicator with a team player mindset and positive attitude.
• Experience in business transformation projects is an advantage.
• Willingness to travel up to 30%.