General & Technical Procurement Controlling

**Job Location: Luxembourg**:
**Company description**:
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 38,767 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

**Diversity Statement**:
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.

**About the Role**:
For our** Ferrero HQs in Luxembourg**, we are currently looking for a **Controlling Specialist **who will be involved in Controlling activities in the **category** of **General and Technical Purchases **to join the** Procurement Finance Controlling **function.
In this position your main responsibilities will be to provide the right information to the decision takers and ensure the governance and guidance of the different finance related processes. Moreover, you will be interacting with various departments, in and out Finance, to provide timely and accurate analysis on business and operative performances and to forecast the upcoming results.
The main counterparts in the finance family will be the investment, industrial and overhead controllers.
Outside the finance family, the main stakeholders are the general and technical purchasing departments and the related requestors (engineering, plants).

**Main Responsibilities**:
Covering this position, you will work in Reporting and Analysis of Planning Scenarios to support central and local entities with Budget, Forecasts, and institutional scenario processes, such as Strategic Plan.

With regards to Reporting and Analysis of Actual costs vs. planned objectives your responsibility will involve understanding and explaining key deviations vs. planned scenarios and previous year actuals. In relation you will have to conduct efficiency analysis to perform and discuss with the Procurement function on monthly basis.

Furthermore, you will support cross-functional activities (with Industrial, Investment and Overhead controlling, General and Technical Purchasing), such as Investment Committee preparation, “Buy or Lease” analysis, ad hoc projects and analysis supporting the decision-taking process and related efficiencies of the Business.

In this position you will also work on Vendor Financial Assessment for General and Technical purchases while you will be involved in suppliers Financing special monitoring (Actual vs. Budget/Forecast) according to Discretionary Cash Flow Controlling. In relation, you will have to support General and Technical Purchasing departments to implement the Plan.

**Who we are looking for**:
You will bring your **university Degree in Economics, Accounting, Finance, alternatively in Engineering,** and **4-7 years of experience overall **while **4-5 in financial controlling gained in FMCG and/or in a consulting company**.

On top of this, the key to your success will be your **strong analytical mindset**, your** attention to detail on one hand**, combined with **good synthesis capabilities** on the other, and your** good organizational skills.**

Employees’ contribution and engagement at Ferrero is based on the individual, team, and organization dimension, so you should have the a**bility to work independently, as a team member and build good relations with stakeholders at all levels.**

Being **flexible **and dealing with a dynamic working environment and **embedding new knowledge and skills **in existing competencies will help you to become a high performer.

Your **ability to gain an understanding of business processes** and to** identify risks/opportunities** is fundamental in this role.

You have **deep knowledge of MS Office (Excel in particular) **while **knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Power BI** will help you achieve your role’s objectives faster.

You are a person with** fluency in English, strong technical skills, data managemen**t and **reporting software knowledge** and with the **ability to develop tools **for an efficient work.

Last but not least, you are **flexible, self-motivated, goal oriented, **with **problem-solving **skills**.**

**How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero**:
Consumers, quality