Global Operations Controller

We are looking for an Operations Controller to join our team in Red Bull HQ.

In this position, you support the headquarters controlling team with month-end closing, year-end closing, and planning periods. Moreover, you act as a contact person for system-related questions for the main business partners such as the procurement and production departments. This is needed to support the growth of the department and the group’s overall processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Areas that play to your strengths

All the responsibilities we’ll trust you with:

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• DAILY BUSINESS
• Calculation of costs for all finished goods (including semi-finished goods).
• Forecasting costs of goods for new product requests from all countries.
• Support of the operations department with regard to different processes in SAP and drive optimization.
• Creation of Ad-Hoc analysis.
• PLANNING
• Performing all planning cycles (BP, FRE, SRE, LE) for all RBS cost centers.
• Guarantee correct data input in SAP and Oracle HFM.
• Planning of HQ costs for all products including VISIT.
• MONTH-END CLOSING
• Performing/coordinating various checks to ensure correct month-end closing together with the business partners.
• Performing production checks and ensuring correct inventory levels.
• Creation of management reports and performing analysis e.g. cost variances.
• YEAR-END CLOSING
• Coordinating timelines together with responsible operations departments.
• Performing year-end revaluation for all materials and being responsible for the inventory valuation.
• PROJECTS
• Being responsible for:
• Various projects to drive efficiency further within the organization.
• Strategic projects like Copacker Management, Smart Data, Availability Management, Source-to-contract,…
• TRAINING/DOCUMENTATION
• Update all relevant training materials and documentations.
• Support the operations department with the needed support/training.

EXPERIENCE

Your areas of knowledge and expertise

that matter most for this role:

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience as an (operations) controller
• Degree in business administration with a focus on finance/controlling
• Excellent knowledge of German and English
• Experience with SAP ERP (FI/CO, MM/PP, SD), SAP BI, and Oracle Hyperion is beneficial
• Experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI) to create reports & dashboards, providing easy access to business insights. Knowledge of statistics and statistical computer languages (e.g. R, Python, SQL, etc.) to understand and continuously improve outputs of predictive models-optimization algorithms would be a plus but is not a pre-requisite
• Experience in the area of cost-type and cost-unit controlling
• Excellent analytical, communication, problem solving and stakeholder management skills
• Analytics mindset, future vision focus, working with numbers
• Accuracy, reliability, flexibility, and result orientation
• Proactive, self-motivated, self-reliant, and able to work under pressure in a fast-paced team environment
• Travel 0-10%

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