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BUSINESS CONTROLLER: FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS

  • South Africa
  • JOHANNESBURG
  • On-site
  • Permanent Full-Time
  • Posted: 29 Oct 2024
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BUSINESS CONTROLLER: FINANCIAL PLANNING AND ANALYSIS

About the job

To ensure that the BU is planning and tracking its performance regularly, through monthly forecasting and monitoring of the business activity and of its financials, and ongoing assessment of risks, opportunities and gap to targets.

About you

Level of finance functional competence required

Functional competence

  • Compliance, Governance & Control
  • Performance Architect
  • Accounting, funding & Tax
  • Strategic Thinking

Enablers

  • Program, Project & Change Management
  • Process Design & Continuous Improvement
  • Data & Technology
  • Effective Communication

Academic and trade qualifications 

  • Bachelor of Commerce Accounting Degree
  • Honours and CIMA would be an added advantage

Work experience and skills

  • At least 4 – 6 years relevant working experience as a Business Partner role for a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods company
  • Should ideally have worked for a multinational company
  • Must have budget building and controlling experience

Personal characteristics and behavioural traits

  • Strong interpersonal, communication and leadership skills
  • Personal integrity
  • Strong relationship builder
  • Analytical thinking
  • Strong Influencing skills
  • Enthusiastic with a can-do attitude
  • Ability to build authentic relationships
  • Be able to challenge and question status quo,
  • Create meaningful vision, to have a holistic and connect different parts of information
  • High efficiency in systems and process development

 

Leadership behaviors

 

CREATES: Dare to challenge and drive for transformation (actively seeks new ideas, initiates changes without fear of disrupting current practices

OPENS: Connects and builds authentic relationships: relates well to different people at all levels, expressing respect and a genuine interest, listen generously and understands other's perspectives and emotions.

Influence and mobilizes stakeholders through own convictions: understand how the organisation works and successfully navigates through it, resolves conflicts and political situations effectively, influences with deep convictions

DRIVES: Delivers value for Danone: understands own business model and drive value in all actions, monitors performance and initiates corrective actions if needed

Works through challenges and breakdowns with resilience to achieve commitments

EMPOWERS: Foster collective impact through teamwork and diversity: builds trust and contributes to a positive team spirit by role modelling respect, cooperation and inclusion. Balances personal goals with those of other team or departments. Act to break silos.

Empowers others through involvement, delegation and trust

SELF AWARE:Be able to step back and maintain own emotional balance, including under stress and pressure, reaches out to others and seeks for help when needed

Seeks and accept feedback

Take responsibility to improve himself / herself, displaying a growth mindset

 

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About Danone

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

Working here you will 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, Such as Nutriday, Yogisip, Inkomazi etc. 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 one health BY You. For more information about Danone, our divisions and culture, please explore careers.danone.com.

 

We offer:

A job which could easily turn in to a career in Danone. We believe everyone is born with superpowers, something which comes natural to you. We know this uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energy, so we believe in all Danoner’s potential and when we build careers based on these superpowers and when we develop everyone’s potential to the fullest magic happens. This is how we like to see Talent Management in Danone.

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Job details

Dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we are a leading global food & beverage company built on four businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, Early Life Nutrition and Medical Nutrition. 

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