Junior Business Controller – Baci Perugina

Position Snapshot

• Nestlé in Italy, Milan headquarter
• Temporary Contract 1 year
• Business Bachelor or equivalent
• At least 6 months – 1 year of experience in Business Controlling
• Proficiency in English and Italian

Position Summary

As Business Controller Specialist you will have the responsibility of Export P&L and will support the team on controlling activities related to Out of retail channel and to the business: quality reporting data, planning, gap analysis, I&R.

You will report to the Confectionery Business Co-Pilot.

A Day in the Life of Business Controller Specialist in Confectionery

• P&L responsibility for the export channels (revenues and direct costs)
• Actively participate to export business plans providing associated scenarios including markets value chain assessment, change of business model, change of distributors etc.
• Act as the Custodian of the export business compliance being the export channel referent/ accountable for Audits
• Active player supporting scenario planning identifying risks / opportunities and providing transparency towards target achievement
• Reliable financials: support a fact based decision making process by ensuring to the business availability of high quality financial information and insightful business analysis
• Target setting: Support the management to define commercial targets by customer/distributor and allocate the marketing and trade investment budget according potential sales growth and profitability;
• ROIC: promote the ROI culture and maximize return of Trade spend and promotions performing pre and post evaluations of most relevant investment and ensuring key learnings.
• Gap analysis: Contribute to identify and review KPI with monthly actuals providing transparency to the management towards target and previous years results.
• I&R: Active role in the I&R process setting targets along the value chain (from sell-out rotations to factory costs), assessing business cases, challenging assumptions, analysing risks and performing post-launch evaluation in order to track key learnings
• Revise the commercial policy and define best prices per channel/sub-channel in order to avoid trade spend due to internal competition on prices.

What will make you successful?

• Business Bachelor or equivalent
• At least 6 months – 1 year of experience in Business Controlling
• Strong mental agility and Curiosity with ability to adapt and deal in an international context (sales)
• Result Focus: takes ownership and is able to prioritize (dealing with 2 different channels)
• Ability to manage big data and resilience supporting the team in operative acirivities
• Communication skills and proven successfully team worker (better if experienced with sales)
• Business acumen: Insightful business analysis and Effective business planning
• Solid financial skills