Your mission

As a Business Partner, you contribute to the economic performance of your Supply Chain perimeter by advising the Operations Director and the finance team.

Your key accountabilities

Finance Controlling

• Supervise the main economic indicators of the scope and implement the necessary action plan in relation to the objectives defined by the Group
• Lead the financial reporting processes in close cooperation with all the actors (Actual, Budget, Trend). Scope of responsibility:
• Budget controlling of inbound costs (inbound freight, custom duties, other costs), physical distribution costs (warehousing and outbound freight), obsolete slow moving and other logistics costs.
• Controlling inventory, receivables (total credit and overdue), investments.
• Monitoring of other key performance indicators (e.g. service levels, quality of forecasts, headcount/productivity and sustainability) in coordination with departments in charge.
• Produce monthly reporting of activity in a timely manner, respecting the deadlines, ensure data quality, and communicate effectively
• Analyze the gaps, check data consistency, challenge results, identify risks / opportunities and propose corrective actions needed to keep budget\'s targets.
• Follow-up the financial impact of key initiatives / projects and evaluate the results.

Business Partnership

• Develop a close relationship with key stakeholders to anticipate risks and opportunities.
• Be an active member of the Supply Chain Committee to contribute to the definition. and implementation of the strategy and provide controlling / economic expertise.
• Participate in building business plans of key Supply Chain projects.

Internal Control within Operations Scope

• Ensure full compliance with Group\'s standards and local regulations
• Contribute to the respect and improvement of internal control practices.
• Follow-up and contribute to the implementation of internal audit action plans.

Requirements:

• Ability to work effectively in an international, multi-cultural environment
• Strong cooperative, collaborative team spirit in a matrix environment
• Flexibility and creativity in problem solving
• Leadership skills
• Finance or Supply Chain experience in FMCG industry is a nice to have
• Comfortable to SAP and IS aptitudes

Emirates Consulting Group