Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Senior FP&A Analyst (m/f/x)

Our client is a leading company in the FMCG sector, providing innovative and high-quality solutions across multiple European markets. With a strong commitment to customer experience, sustainability, and operational excellence, they continue to grow and evolve.

To strengthen their FP&A team, we are exclusively supporting them in the search for a Senior FP&A Analyst to join and grow with the team.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Act as a business partner to senior leadership, providing insights and recommendations to drive revenue growth, profitability, and cost optimisation across diverse markets.
2. Support Group FP&A Director with the annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-term strategic planning processes, focusing on top-line revenue drivers.
3. Provide financial modelling and scenario analysis to support strategic initiatives and business cases.
4. Support country FP&A teams with in-depth financial analysis on revenue performance, cost optimization, and identifying mitigating actions.
5. Deliver comprehensive financial reports and dashboards, clearly communicating key performance drivers along with risks and opportunities.
6. Collaborate with commercial and operational teams to align financial objectives with business strategies, ensuring profitable growth and cost efficiency.
7. Support month-end and quarter-end close processes, ensuring alignment with top-line targets and cost optimisation goals.
8. Continuously improve FP&A processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency and insight generation.

What you bring:

Technical skills:

1. Professional qualification (e.g., CIMA or ACCA).
2. Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a Scientific discipline (e.g. Chemistry).
3. Several years of FP&A and/or commercial experience with solid ability to read P&L and Cash Flow statements.
4. Proven experience navigating complex matrix environments with multiple stakeholders and short deadlines.
5. Advanced proficiency in financial modelling, forecasting, and reporting with some level of reporting commentary.
6. Expertise in Excel (complex lookups, if statements and Pivot tables) and PowerPoint with good knowledge of PowerBI or other BI tools.
7. Understanding of data structure with the ability leverage AI tools to automate processes.

Core Competencies and Personal/Human Attributes:

1. Ability to work autonomously and determine priorities.
2. Excellent communication skills, capable of presenting complex financial data, including cost analyses, to non-financial audiences and influencing senior stakeholders.
3. Proven ability to work effectively, balancing competing priorities while maintaining a high level of attention to detail.
4. Demonstrated ability to partner with cross functional teams and influence both top-line performance and cost efficiency in complex environments.
5. Ambitious and results-oriented, with the drive to exceed targets and continuously improve performance.
6. Strong problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to addressing complex financial and operational challenges.
7. Team-oriented mindset with a collaborative approach to achieving shared objectives.

Why you should consider this opportunity:

Great development opportunities to grow within the team. You will get exposure, and work with a leader who values trust, collaboration, and provides support at eye level.

About us

Blackbird Talent Solutions is a Swiss boutique specializing in recruiting talents/leaders in the areas of Finance , HR , Supply Chain and Sales in Switzerland and across Europe. We are based in Zurich and have previous corporate experience from well-known global organisations in combination with our recruitment expertise. Our approach is consultative and human centric in all our interactions.

Seniority level: Associate

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Finance, Strategy/Planning, and Analyst

Industries: Food and Beverage Services

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