Finance Manager DACH (m/w/d)

About the Job

Join our high-performing Finance team as Finance Manager DACH! In this pivotal role, you will support financial initiatives, foster innovation, and drive finance excellence. You will provide valuable insights into performance, assist in the strategic direction of the market, 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 across customer types and sales categories. Proactively encourage market teams to leverage this analysis for informed decision-making. Act as the focal point for performance management, covering sales, gross margin, and operating costs.
• Provide Strategic Insights: Offer commercial finance input to align sales, margin, and cost forecasts with the Group’s objectives. Assess customer and commercial plans 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. Support the yearly preparation of the 5-Year-Plan.
• 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.
• 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.
• Minimum 5 years professional experience in FP&A/ Controlling/ Commercial Finance with a focus on finance business partnering.
• Commercial acumen, with a demonstrated ability to identify and capitalize on opportunities that drive commercial success.
• Strong financial modelling, analysis, and forecasting skills, with the ability to analyse data and situations quickly from different perspectives and translate complex financial information into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Wider experience in building and maintaining business financial reporting.
• Proficient in standard financial software & tools (e.g., ERP systems, Data Warehouses, Excel, PPT) and familiarity with analytics platforms and technologies.
• 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 German and English. 

Our Benefits

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• 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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