Lifestyle Brands (the LSB) is a growing house of like-minded brands under the SC Johnson umbrella including Method®, Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day®, Babyganics® and Ecover®. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional operations in Chicago and throughout Europe, the LSB is home to 650 employees. Together we act as a force for bold, transformative growth with a focus on delivering positive impact for people and the planet. If you’re into pioneering the future and doing good while doing business, come join us.
The LSB is part of SC Johnson, a family-owned company and leading manufacturer of household cleaning, home storage, air care, pest control and shoe care products, as well as professional products. Originally founded in 1886 and headquartered in Wisconsin, U.S.A., SC Johnson and the Lifestyle Brands division are at work for a better world.
Finance Business Partner

(Commercial FP&A Associate Manager)

• Location: Hamburg, Germany
• Contract type: Full time
• People Leader: Head of FP&A
• Function: Finance
• Please note this role is not eligible for international relocation

We’re looking for a numbers-guru, someone passionate about on business partnering and providing financial insights. As we see the world differently and do things differently, we are looking for someone to challenge the status quo and provide thought leadership to improve our decision making.
You will be the right-hand person to the DACH Hub Leader and Head of FP&A, a sparring partner to drive the business forward to achieve the seemingly impossible!

Responsibilities:

• Bring your personality to our LSB team. Live and breathe the values of LSB and care for your colleagues.
• Partner the DACH LSB sales and brand team, creating close & strong relationships with DACH leadership team and the wider DACH sales teams
• Provide visibility to regional DACH team via weekly, and monthly reporting, and pioneer the future by creating tools to enhance financial clarity and decision-making that is accurate, clear and actionable
• Lead all aspects of the quarterly financial forecast process as well as annual budgeting for the regional hub, determining drivers of risk and opportunity versus the operating plan
• Deliver sound, strategic, and actionable course correcting recommendations to the respective leadership teams. Ensure spending is in line with budget or revised forecast expectations
• For all key decisions within the region (product/customer portfolio, promotion/pricing, cost savings actions, investments), provide credible financial modelling and influence the business with continuous guidance and advice on methods to improve, or maximize the financial opportunity of those considerations.
• Make objective recommendations that serve the best interests of the region and company as a whole
• Lead the DACH region month end P&L close, ensuring accuracy of the DACH region monthly P&L.
• Work closely with the sales and brand team to accurately capture all trade spend and brand spend activities ensuring no financially material surprises. Including ownership of the DACH trade spend balance sheet reconciliations to allow for review of trade spend positions
• Review trade spend and brand activities ensuring that we are getting adequate ROI for the spend (recommendation our how best the region should be spending the money)
• Relentlessly pursue opportunities to improve processes, improve forecast accuracy, assess risk, and establish urgency across the organization to maximize EBIT.
• Partner with wider LSB finance team in assessing other sales and general admin costs for the DACH, the monthly close results and sharing actuals and implications to the broader organization.

Experience you’ll bring:

• Qualified Accountant with min. 5 years PQE with a strong academic record and substantial finance experience gained in a variety of environments
• Experience in commercial finance/FP&A a must, exposure to FMCG is a plus!
• Previous ownership of financial forecasting, and other critical financial process and analysis
• Proven ability to communicate complex financial information concisely and accurately to a broad audience
• Experience working with and influencing cross functional teams
• Embeds financial knowledge and understanding with business partners to ensure focus on supporting the right initiatives and business decisions
• Ability to build powerful influencing relationships at all levels while also creating the energy and momentum for required change
• Have strong commercial and financial acumen and will understand which levers of the P&L to drive performance
• Have a desire to get stuck in to make processes simpler and easier,
• System-savvy - an Excel whiz, with SAP and Anaplan experience a major plus.

Get to know us:
We are the people behind method + Ecover. We’ve always done things differently – we’re fearless thinkers, mad scientists and adventurous designers who believe that making soap leads to brave ideas, bold inventions and beautiful bubbles. We started small but we have big plans to make the world a cleaner, greener, more colourful place. We invite everyone to join us as we pioneer a future where doing business is doing good for all.
Let’s get one thing straight – you’re not coming here to just sell soap, or cleaning products. You’re joining us to move the hearts, souls and minds of others all over the world that see the world differently. We think about cleaning as an act of creative expression, a gesture of rebellion, and, yes, an escape from the normal. We take cleaning seriously – but not ourselves.
Alongside our friends Mrs. Meyer’s clean day and babyganics in the US, we are collectively known as Lifestyle Brands and are part of the SC Johnson family.
Application:
Have you made it this far? If you’re still reading, we think there’s a strong chance you might be our kind of person. Here’s the thing, though — research suggests that 60% of women and underrepresented folks might have already talked themselves out of applying. Even if you don’t check every box above, we want to encourage you to introduce yourself. We believe a diversity of perspectives and experiences makes a team stronger — and the stronger our team, the closer we are to delivering our ambition of a clean world revolution!
It’s a big, beautiful, colourful world out there and we should celebrate that. That’s why we’re working hard to be a fully diverse and inclusive place to work. Every day we strive to create an atmosphere where everyone feels valued, listened to, supported and where we can do our best work. Sure, there’s always more that can be done. But together with our team, partners, customers and community, we can make everyone welcome.
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We are happy to adjust our hiring process to ensure we are accessible to everyone – please let us know what we can do to support you!
We want to embrace and live out our renewed D&I commitments by positively encouraging inclusivity of all types during the recruitment process and throughout our employee’s lifecycles. With this in mind, all personal data, and photos will be hidden from your CV during the initial stages of the recruitment process.
Inclusion & Diversity
We believe that being a team of diverse people with different ideas, views and cultures will help us and our business thrive. We are committed to ensuring everyone who works at the LSB feels that they have a real sense of belonging and that they can show up as who they are, be valued, listened to and supported to do their best possible work.
Sure, there’s always more that can be done. But together with our team, partners, customers and community, we can make everyone welcome

• Bring your personality to our LSB team. Live and breathe the values of LSB and care for your colleagues.
• Partner the DACH LSB sales and brand team, creating close & strong relationships with DACH leadership team and the wider DACH sales teams
• Provide visibility to regional DACH team via weekly, and monthly reporting, and pioneer the future by creating tools to enhance financial clarity and decision-making that is accurate, clear and actionable
• Lead all aspects of the quarterly financial forecast process as well as annual budgeting for the regional hub, determining drivers of risk and opportunity versus the operating plan
• Deliver sound, strategic, and actionable course correcting recommendations to the respective leadership teams. Ensure spending is in line with budget or revised forecast expectations
• For all key decisions within the region (product/customer portfolio, promotion/pricing, cost savings actions, investments), provide credible financial modelling and influence the business with continuous guidance and advice on methods to improve, or maximize the financial opportunity of those considerations.
• Make objective recommendations that serve the best interests of the region and company as a whole
• Lead the DACH region month end P&L close, ensuring accuracy of the DACH region monthly P&L.
• Work closely with the sales and brand team to accurately capture all trade spend and brand spend activities ensuring no financially material surprises. Including ownership of the DACH trade spend balance sheet reconciliations to allow for review of trade spend positions
• Review trade spend and brand activities ensuring that we are getting adequate ROI for the spend (recommendation our how best the region should be spending the money)
• Relentlessly pursue opportunities to improve processes, improve forecast accuracy, assess risk, and establish urgency across the organization to maximize EBIT.
• Partner with wider LSB finance team in assessing other sales and general admin costs for the DACH, the monthly close results and sharing actuals and implications to the broader organization