Director FP&A (Customer, Supply and Development area)
Location:
Lodz, Łódzkie, PL, 90-530
About the role:
The Director of CSD FP&A leads the global FP&A team supporting Customer, Supply & Development (CSD), covering Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Safety and Innovation. The role is responsible for delivering high‑quality cost analysis, challenging data and business partners, and ensuring that performance and cost plans stay on track. The Director drives global reporting harmonization, strategic planning, forecasting, and productivity initiatives, identifying risks and opportunities across all CSD areas. This position manages a team of ~10 people (including 3 direct reports) and provides leadership in designing and executing CSD performance and cost‑management processes. The role reports to the VP, Global FP&A.
Key responsibilities:
- Perform monthly analysis and provide insights into CSD financial performance, benchmarked against prior year and/or budget and between different locations (where applicable) to identify savings opportunities.
- Lead the team to ensure reporting is delivered timely and with quality, ensuring to understand the drivers of results and challenge the organization on cost reduction / improve results.
- Partner up with CSD CFO and CSD leadership on financial reporting and planning requirements.
- Lead and harmonize the Global CSD CFO monthly reports, and contribute to Business Review deck and Regional Monthly reporting analysis.
- Coordinate mid-term planning, rolling forecast / budgeting and operational planning processes across CSD organization.
- Identify areas of improvements and provide leadership from the FP&A side to design, implement and deploy initiatives across CSD.
- Support the Global FP&A organization in the transition to the GBS model.
- Business Partner the CSD CFO in the Next Level Transformation journey, monitoring savings realization and work with the CSD Organization and Finance when results deviate from plan to identify actions plan to bring results on track.
- Streamline and standardize the CSD reporting, working closely with the CSD finance community and the rest of the Global FP&A organization to identify simplification opportunities.
- Collaborate with various internal stakeholders on providing financial analysis and insights on a regular and ad-hoc basis.
- Be the point of contact and driver for cockpits / dashboard, PowerBI visualization, identifying a road map for implementation.
- Be the point of contact and lead from Global FP&A for the implementation of standard costing for the Group (as of when / if the project will be approved).
- Drive continuous improvement in the area of competence.
About you:
- Minimum Bachelor in Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or similar.
- Minimum 10 years of financial analysis and management experience including business case creation, performance tracking, and project management.
- Experience in financial planning and analysis or finance business partnering within a production / industrial environment; experience in food manufacturing or commodities is a plus.
- Business fluency in English; additional languages an asset.
- Proficiency in MS Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
- Knowledge of finance systems and business intelligence tools (SAP BOFC, BW, Analytics Cloud, EPM).
- Self-starter and proactive; able to operate autonomously and proactively network in an ambiguous environment.
- Able to balance detailed, hands-on analytical work with strategic thinking.
- Experienced in stakeholder management at a global level across hierarchies.
- Solid project management and business development knowledge focusing on preparing, tracking, and reporting business cases / KPIs.
- Strong communicating, listening, and influencing skills to collaborate effectively across cultures and hierarchies.
- Strong organizational skills to effectively plan priorities, resources, and workload.
- Experience in change management to lead transformational initiatives and navigate the resulting complexity.
- Innovative with an appetite for continuous improvement.
- Organized, structured, and able to plan over the mid- to longer-term.
- Result oriented.
We offer:
- Employment on a regular basis in the sweetest company in the world.
- Annual bonus based on your work results.
- Lunch card to be used for groceries and restaurants.
- Private medical care in Lux Med (basic package fully financed by BC).
- Fit Profit sports card co-financed by BC.
- PPE: we care about your future, and we save money for your retirement.
- Cafeteria Program as a part of Social Fund.
- Group life insurance.
- Hybrid working model: min. 8 days in the office a month.
- As part of our work-life balance culture, we can start work between 7 am and 10 am.
- Free consultation with a lawyer once a quarter.
- Chocolate! Yes, surprising but we have chocolate in the office, for Christmas, BC’s Birthday, and many other occasions during the year.
- And if chocolate is still not enough, you can join one of our theme clubs, where together with other employees we develop our passions and interests.
- Daily delivery of fresh fruits and veggies to the office.
- You can purchase our sweet products with a special discount.
- Relax zone in the office and plenty of options to choose from: PlayStation 5, football table, pool table, Ping-Pong, library, table games, and massage chairs.
- Sport @work? Sure! We have treadmills and indoor exercise bikes with a laptop station.
- We like to party as much as we like chocolate! We have integration budgets we can use for team events.
- Forever Chocolate and Event Team: you can join them and have a real influence on social life in BC and CSR activities.
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