Business Controlling

About Us:
Global Blue has pioneered the Tax-Free Shopping industry over 40 years ago and millions of consumers have followed. Through continuous innovation, we have become the leading strategic technology and payments partner, empowering merchants to capture the growth of international shoppers and offering a top-notch user experience to our customers.

Global Blue offers innovative solutions in three different fields: Tax Free Shopping, Payments services and Complementary RetailTech. In addition, our data services offer a strategic advisory to help retailers identify opportunities for growth, while our shopper experience and engagement solutions provide data-driven solutions to increase footfall, convert footfall to revenue and enhance performance.

Our culture is entrepreneurial, we find solutions to problems by thinking outside of the box and by being innovative. It is a fast paced, hands on environment and we are not afraid to try different things. It is a supportive, collaborative and respectful place to be. Being a truly multicultural company, we celebrate our differences and believe that this is what makes Global Blue unique.

Today, Global Blue has over 2,000 employees in more than 50 countries.

The role:
We are recruiting an experienced Business Controlling & Financial Planning to join our FP&A team.

This is a new position in the team of Financial Planning and Analysis with focus on supporting mainly the commercial organisation (Revenue and direct Operating expenses). The nature of the role includes i) analysing and understand Actual performance, ii) business partner with Country Managing directors on matters involving efficiencies and business opportunities, iii) support the forecasting and Budget processes. The incumbent will build trusted relationships with stakeholders and provide financial information for decision making in a timely manner.

You will have the opportunity to join a new project in a new location and develop your career in a truly international and digital oriented environment

Main duties and responsibilities:
- Partner with Accounting to understand Actual performance and manage closing process- Monthly Actuals analysis and report performance to business leaders and VP FP&A, including variance analyses versus Budget and Prior Year/Prior-Covid- Support running the budgeting process for the European commercial organisation in collaboration with the rest of the FP&A team; this includes to maintain and further develop the various Budget modelling tools.- Business partnering with business leaders and respective teams to provide them with relevant financial information in a timely manner to support the decision making of which (list not exhaustive):
- Run various analyses of volume, mix, and margins by drivers-
- Service and refunding mix analyses-
- Understand current processes and flows within Business and backoffice to be able to challenge and recommend improvements.-
- Support the VP Financial Planning and Analysis and CFO on a number of initiatives linked with FP&A activities

Preferable skills and competencies:
- Strong Excel modelling skills with the ability to handle data in an efficient way, able to identify key business performance drivers and model them via KPIs;- Good understanding of accounting principles and the dynamics between P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow- Solid analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets as well as having an “helicopter view”- Experience in reporting development and knowledge of Hyperion, Smartview, ESSBase would be a plus- Ability to automate routines with VBA, Power Query to get and transform data and data modelling in Power Pivot-BI. DAX would be a plus. Business acumen, with experience in dealing with commercial matters and ability to bring appropriate business responses which generate shareholder value- Good communication and presentation skills in multinational and multicultural environment- Ability to work independently as well as in a team.- Strong prioritisation skills to organise at time intense workload and ability to multitask.- Fluent in spoken and written English

Education and Experience:
- Graduated in Finance, Economics or Accounting.- Minimum of 2 years of successful background experience in Audit or Accounting roles- Commercial exposure would be a plus- International Professional Finance qualification will be a plus

Why working with us:
- Our organizational culture is based on values such as Innovation, Respect, Collaboration, Customer centricity and Empowerment.- To work in fast growing international company with inspiring colleagues from many different countries;- To work in cool and relaxed environment., without strong formalities and accessible leads.- To have the possibility of flexible hours and working remote;- To have learning & development opportunities alongside a team of real and unique people- To receive a Top-notch “tech pack” to make your working days more agile.- To benefit from an E