Senior Business Analyst (m/f/d)

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature. 

As a Senior Business Analyst Financial Planning and Analysis, you are going to support the Taste and Wellbeing Division global analysis requirements. Setting targets, monitoring results both on commercial and financial performance, you will contribute to shape our performance by allowing the decision-making for our Division management.

You will be based in our Business Center in Kemptthal and report directly to the Head Financial Planning and Analysis Taste and Wellbeing.

You will:

• Monthly business reporting and analysis
  You run reports and analysis covering business (sales, product margin and development) and financial (P&L, cash flow, opex) performance as part of the monthly closing process. You perform weekly and monthly forecasts for business management and coordinate reporting process between the stakeholders (business management, controlling, Givaudan Business Solution) including the establishment of an annual reporting calendar. Moreover, you ensure documentation is available.
   
• Yearly planning and budgeting
  You will coordinate sales planning and budgeting process. Also, you contribute to financial planning and budgeting through analysis. You also track variances against plan and seek mitigation actions.
   
• Support division controlling in ad-hoc activities and special projects
  You perform ad-hoc reporting & analysis and establish business cases (new strategic programs, acquisitions). Last but not least you contribute to all division controlling programs (ex: develop of new system capabilities, processes and design improvements).

You have:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Finance, Business Economics or Accounting
• Min 5 or more years of experience in financial or business controlling or planning and analysis within the chemical or manufacturing industry with international background
• Business fluent in English
• Knowledge of BI environment and financial consolidation tools
• Knowledge of SAP
• Expert in communicating on different levels within a matrix organization
• Enthusiastic about analytics, rigorous and service oriented
• Good eye for details and proactive

Your benefits in Kemptthal:

• Excellent opportunities for progressive learning and development
• 40 hour working week, Flexible working model and remote working (hybrid)
• Additional paid days off
• Favorable pension fund contributions
• Subsidized meals in the Staff restaurant / You benefit from a discounted catering offer (incl. lunch)
• Sport and leisure club (amenities/showers on site)
• Discounts at the company shop
• Subsidized: REKA vouchers and SBB half fare travel card
• Worldwide private accident coverage and free choice of hospital
• Additional family/education allowance

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity. 
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.