FP&A Controller

Short Intro and About the Job

Purpose of the position

The FP&A Controller plays a key role in supporting business performance through effective financial planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Acting as a trusted partner to key stakeholders/department, the role provides meaningful insights, identifies and addresses risk and opportunities, and supports management in making sound, data-driven business decisions.

About You

Responsibilities and duties

Financial Planning & Forecasting

·         Coordinate budgeting, forecasting and long-term planning processes.

·         Translating the financial impact of business decisions

·         Support scenario planning and simulations to facilitate business decisions.

·         Monitor performance versus Budget/Forecast and identify key variances, risks and opportunities.

Performance Management & Reporting

·         Prepare and analyse monthly financial performance, including P&L, KPIs and key business drivers.

·         Develop management reports and presentations to support leadership decision-making.

·         Ensure high-quality and timely financial reporting.

Teaming up

·         Working together with key stakeholders/departments to interpret financial data for planning purposes

·         Support business teams in understanding the financial impact of key decisions.

·         Challenging status quo and seeking creative solutions to persistent problems

·         Support business cases, investment decisions and profitability analysis.

Controlling & Financial Excellence

·         Ensure strong financial discipline and compliance with internal processes and guidelines.

·         Support month-end closing activities in collaboration with accounting.

·         Monitor costs, investments and profitability to ensure alignment with business objectives.

·         Drive automation and simplification of financial reporting and analysis to the possible extent.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related field.
• 3–5 years of relevant experience in FP&A, Controlling, Financial Analysis or Business Finance, preferably within a multinational/FMCG environment.
• Strong understanding of P&L, budgeting, forecasting and performance management.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful business insights.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with ERP/reporting and BI tools is an advantage.
• Fluent in English and Greek.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Fluency and willingness to use AI on a daily basis

About Us, We offer and What's next

As a world leading food company DANONE stands for international success. Around 104000 employees work on all five continents in the three Danone business areas Essential Dairy & Plant-Based, Specialized Nutrition and Water  on one corporate mission: “Bringing health through food to as many people as possible”.

We want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power people have to impact the world through their daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food and healthy food needs a healthy planet: this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

Do things your way. The way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s all up to you.

Working here you’ll need to enjoy a fast-pace, complexity and it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities. You’ll work with some of the best-known brands in the world and we absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.

Be innovative and entrepreneurial and the impact you could make might just amaze you. Join our movement for a healthier world. One Planet OneHealth BYYOU.

We offer you a culture, where you’ll be welcomed to bring in ideas and take initiative you’ll learn from colleagues highly committed and passionate about what they do. We believe in learning something new each day as it means you keep growing every day!

We believe everyone has talent, something which comes natural to you. Your uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energizes you.

In Greece we are Certified Great Place to Work and B Corp.

Danone is committed to create and live an inclusive & diverse environment, which will drive our growth as a business, as teams, as members of communities & as individuals. Valuing diversity is recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities. Our aim is to ensure that all employees and applicants are given equal opportunity and that our organization is representative of our consumers and society.

We commit to foster an inclusive working environment where we celebrate all types of diversity, both visible and invisible, which includes age, race, gender, nationality, disability, background, education, religion, beliefs, thinking style, perspectives and sexual orientation. We believe that our differences will make the difference.

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