Senior E-commerce Finance Business Partner (all genders)

at  zooplus SE

Company Description
More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.
We’re on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of Care, Courage, Openness, and Simplicity. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.
Job Description
Based in our Munich headquarters, we are looking for an exceptional candidate to support our fast-growing business as Senior Finance Business Partner to the Chief Sales Officer & Vice President to Pricing and Promotions, members of our Exco.
Your reporting line will be into the Global FP&A team.
We want to hire you because you have a lot of potential for a strong career. We want you to be daring, constructive, and have a strong result orientation. We are looking for someone that others would describe as being sufficiently structured, with a strategic and commercial mindset. You are enthusiastic and comfortable with collaborating with a diverse set of colleagues. We dream of you being a strong and effective communicator.
We expect you to take responsibility for day 1 and therefore looking for someone with strong leadership capabilities.

RESPONSABILITIES:

• Be the right hand to the VP of Pricing and promotions and be a member of the Sales Leadership team.
• Drive responsibility for the topline and bottom-line delivery for countries, against yearly targets and long-term business ambitions. For this, you need to be an ’operator’ and be good at handling and analyzing performance using data
• Support the VP/CSO with business performance routines (weekly, monthly)
• Conducting financial analyses & business cases to evaluate performance on an ad hoc basis.
• Drive the budgeting and latest estimate process for the Markets/countries.
• Turn fact-based knowledge into relevant insights and actionable recommendations.
• Prepare scenarios with pros and cons and risk mitigations to facilitate high-quality decisions.
• Being able to handle ambiguity and being able to turn this into something clear for others to understand.
• Communicate clearly and concisely, adapting to the audience.
• Protect zooplus by ensuring appropriate governance and controls are in place.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 5 years of proven experience in FP&A, commercial finance in Retail, or FMCG role
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and nice to have SQL, Tableau or Power BI skills
• Experienced in financial modeling & analysis, data visualization, and executive communication.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Experience in encouraging collaboration and leading processes across cross-functional teams.
• Takes initiative, and ownership, and drives things to a conclusion.
• Top tier Bachelor’s degree, Master’s / MBA degree valued.
• Experience with budgeting/forecast development, establishing KPIs to define success, and profitability and unit economics analyses is ideal.
• Fluency in English is a must.
  Additional Information
  With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 10 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect to work in a hybrid environment, collaborating with colleagues in different locations remotely.

Please refer the Job description for details