Finance Business Partner DACH (m/f/d)

This role is currently limited to 18-24 months.

About the Job

Join our high-performing Finance team as Finance Business Partner DACH! In this pivotal role, you will support financial initiatives, foster innovation, and drive finance excellence. You will provide valuable insights into performance and collaborate with partners to drive commercial value while ensuring compliance with financial regulations. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact as a finance business partner in an international, dynamic, fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Support Business Decisions: Utilize data to identify trends and performance opportunities as well as undesired developments and potential risks. Proactively encourage market teams to leverage this analysis for informed decision-making.
• Drive Direct Cost Management: Drive the direct costs for all DACH functions and act as the focal point for direct cost management. Offer commercial finance input to align cost forecasts with the Group’s objectives. Constantly assess plans and track performance to ensure they support the overall business strategy while maintaining a commercial mindset in decision-making.
• Perform Budgeting and Forecasts: Translate business and functional objectives into robust financial plans and KPIs, ensuring clarity and relevance in all management information as well as fulfilment of the Group Finance requirements.
• Monitor Performance: Oversee actual performance against budget, previous forecast, and prior periods, creating analyses and delivering accurate and insightful commentary, including risk and opportunities analysis and root cause assessments for key variances.
• Support Monthly Closing: Support the monthly closing process through sense-checking of outcomes and updating accruals.
• Enhance Local Finance Reporting: Develop and enhance further tailored reports and management information for the DACH market that support strong business performance and adhere to Group submission deadlines.
• Support Projects: Provide financial support to M&A and other projects, programs or activities including preparation of business cases and investment proposals.
• Champion Continuous Improvement: Work closely with finance peers to share best practices and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the finance team, while actively managing your own development.

About you

• University degree in Business Administration/ Economics with a focus on finance, or a related field; alternatively professional accountancy qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• At least 2 years professional experience in FP&A/ Controlling/ Commercial
• Good analysis and forecasting skills, with the ability to analyse data and situations quickly from different perspectives and translate financial information into actionable insights and recommendations
• First experiences in maintaining and further development of business financial reporting
• Ability to connect the dots between financial data and its non-financial root causes
• Practical skills in standard financial software & tools (e.g., ERP systems, Data Warehouses, MS Excel, MS PPT) and familiarity with analytics platforms and technologies
• First experience in stakeholder engagement within matrix structures, adept at managing relationships with various stakeholders at different levels
• Team player, enthusiastic and collaborative in approach, with a “can do” attitude and open mind
• Very good knowledge of spoken and written English; German is an advantage

Our Benefits (can vary depending on office location)

• Shopping card
• Job Ticket
• Bike Leasing
• 30 days paid holidays
• Saving plans
• Pension scheme

We are RS

RS Group is a global omni-channel provider of product and service solutions for designers, builders and maintainers of industrial equipment and operations. It looks to provide an unrivalled choice of products, to help its customers solve problems with innovative solutions.

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.  ​

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.  ​

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  ​

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.  ​

 We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. ​

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things, too.​

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