Financial Planning Analyst

A leading organization in the food and nutrition sector is seeking a motivated and experienced Financial Planning Analyst to join their Finance team. This role offers significant responsibility and exposure to manufacturing operations, with a strong focus on financial planning, controlling, cash flow management, cost analysis, and business partnering. As a Financial Planning Analyst, you will be responsible for financial controlling activities, including balance sheet and Free Cash Flow (FCF) forecasting and analysis, material variance analysis, cost controlling, and financial planning.

You will work closely with finance teams, business stakeholders, and department managers to support financial performance and strategic decision-making. Responsibilities include owning and delivering Balance Sheet and Free Cash Flow forecasts and actuals analysis, analyzing financial performance, identifying risks and opportunities, leading credit and cash management activities, performing material cost variance analysis, supporting forecasting, financial landing, and year-end planning processes, acting as a business partner to department managers, collaborating with central Finance, controlling teams, and shared service functions, supporting controlling activities related to corporate and shared service costs, improving financial control processes, reporting tools, and ways of working, maintaining strong financial controls, and building effective relationships with finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Requirements include 3–5 years of relevant Finance, FP&A, or Controlling experience, experience in a complex or multinational organization, strong experience in financial analysis, forecasting, and controlling, good understanding of Balance Sheet, Free Cash Flow, cost analysis, and financial reporting, experience with variance analysis and financial planning processes, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, a proactive, reliable, open-minded, and team-oriented approach, an academic degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field, and the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.

Manufacturing or operations controlling experience is a plus. This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional looking to develop their career in FP&A and controlling while gaining broad exposure to manufacturing operations, financial planning, and business partnering.