Senior Finance Business Partner Logistics (m/f/d) - Düsseldorf

Are you ready to play a key role in CE Logistics and the Global Logistics Finance Team?

Are you skilled at utilizing financial insights to drive decision-making across multiple functions?

In this role, your exceptional business partnering and communication abilities will be highly valued. Naturally, a strong foundation in financial analysis and a wealth of experience are essential.

How will you make an impact?

You will be based in Dusseldorf and report to the Finance Director for Logistics, who is based in DK. In the role you are both a member of the DE Logistics Leadership Team and the Global Logistics Finance Team with colleagues across UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and The Netherlands. Our Logistics operations covers inbound milk collection, Warehouses, Outbound distribution to our customers and intermediate transportation of both Raw materials and finished goods.

Your responsibility

• Responsible for month end close, forecasting (quarterly) and supporting/driving the business in delivery of cost and sustainability targets
• Acting as a trusted business partner to the Senior Director DE Logistics, and as a member of the DE Logistics Leadership team.
• Act as a trusted partner to Senior Logistics Manager NL.
• Play an active role in the development of the Logistics Concepts Programme to improve processes and give greater insights to our cost drivers and enable cost reduction.
• Take a leading role within the cross markets logistics workstreams sharing best practice and standardise processes to enable Global Logistics Finance to deliver on business plan ambitions
• Leading and empowering a team of highly experienced finance business partners, ensuring that all financial activities are aligned with our strategic goals and objectives, enabling us to achieve sustainable growth and profitability.
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the DE and NL organisation & wider Global Supply Chain  to drive financial performance and achieve ambitious business goals. This includes participation in cross-functional projects and workstreams across Arla to shape our direction and ensure financial clarity.
• Support Sustainability and Capex process improvements.
• Facilitate dialogue with commercial on insights and improvement suggestions and contribute to commercial business cases.
• Collaborate with Production Finance on business cases to enable holistic business decisions.

Your profile

• We look forward to receiving applications from candidates with a higher degree in Economics, with 8+ years working experience as finance business partner (or similar) position translating operations performance data into business cases and actions
• Ideally you gained first leadership experience within a global FMCG matrix organization or in a logistics / supply chain environment.
• Through your experience you developed great skills in understanding the business of your peers allowing you to advice and challenge their financial performance to earn credibility as a trusted advisor.
• You work independently and are self-driven offering detailed solutions always considering the big picture of the business needs.
• You will be a proficient user of all Office Applications and will have advanced Excel skills. Knowledge and experience of working with SAP would also be an advantage.
• Finally, business fluent German and English skills complement your profile.

What we offer

• Work-life balance: A 38.5 hour week, as well as time recording with flexible working hours - also from home and 30+ days holiday
• Culture: Our unique, Scandinavian corporate culture with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths within our cooperative structure, as well as a high degree of appreciation, especially through our feedback culture, for example with 1:1 meetings
• Further development: access to our learning library for online training and global career opportunities 
• Employee benefits: Discounts on our entire product portfolio and access to the Corporate Benefits Programme with attractive discounts at gyms, for example 
• Sustainability: High standards of our strong sustainability concept
• Location: Culinary catering in our in-house company restaurant with daily fresh meals - enhanced with our Arla products and a Starbucks corner. Our office is also easy to reach thanks to good transport links and we offer free employee parking

Application and contact

Please apply through our website under reference of your salary expectations and your earliest availability. For further information please contact Elena Sampalioti, Head of Talent Acquisition, under +49 1714378801.

Equal opportunity
Arla Foods is a company with equal opportunities for everyone regardless of age, race, gender or any other criteria that is not a professional qualification for an open position. Purely for reasons of readability we have chosen to create all our job postings in male format. We explicitly look forward to all applications regardless if the candidate is male, female, diverse and will also exclude any other criteria from our screening process that is not professional qualification.

Agency disclaimer
Arla Foods Deutschland has chosen carefully selected external vendors (“Headhunter”) to work on specific roles and we hold long term working relationship with them. Arla Foods Deutschland is not seeking any new partners until further notice. Therefore we are asking you to refrain from any contact requests by phone, e-mail or in any other way towards any Arla Foods representatives. Please note that all candidate resumes that are send to us without a written and signed search assignment will be deemed made available free of costs. 

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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