Senior Business Analyst

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. 

Senior Business Analyst - Your future role?

As Senior Business Analyst, you will support the Head of Financial Planning & Analysis Taste & Wellbeing by delivering  insightful reporting, robust analysis, and strong business partnering. You will play a key role in ensuring the accuracy, efficiency, and strategic value of financial insights that guide divisional performance.

Your main responsibilities:

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare the monthly business reporting package including sales, margins, headcount, and financial performance.

• Analyse P&L variances, identify underlaying business drivers, and develop clear management commentary.

• Compile and maintain data models and reports to track performance against targets.

• Contribute to the development of forecasting tools and dashboards to support decision-making.

• Conduct ad hoc analyses to support divisional leadership in clarifying the division's financial and non-financial performance.

Controlling Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Support continous improvement initiatives in management reporting processes and  controlling systems 

• Support develop and maintain KPIs and business metrics at the divisional and regional levels.

• Collaborate with regional Finance teams to ensure data consistency, transparency and accuracy.

•  Identify deviations, trends, and risks and contribute to proposals for corrective actions.

• Contribute to the advancement of digital reporting tools and automation plans within the FP&A team

Collaboration & Communication

• Work closely with Finance  teams (Corporate, Divisional, Regional, GBS) and business partners to ensure aligned and reliable reporting.

• Maintain effective communication on deliverables, clarifications, and process updates.

• Support management presentations and internal reviews with and clear analysis.

You have:

• Master’s degree in Economics, Business or a technical / mathematical degree ;

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a financial analysis or business analysis role within a global or international environment 

• Experience in project management

• Strong experience with data analysis and reporting tools (e.g. Query design, Business Objects Analysis (BOA), Tableau,Databases or similar BI Tools)

Advanced MS Excel (including macros) and Power Point (Think-cell) and solid SAP knowledge

• Ability to work under tight deadlines and external pressure

• Fluent in English (verbal and written)

• Experience in the pharmaceutical or chemical industry including process design is an advantage

• Customer- and results-oriented mindset

Our Benefits:

• Variable pension fund contribution

• Sport and leisure club

• Company shop

• Staff restaurant

• Public transportation support

• Free parking space

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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.