Job Description

Looking for new opportunities in your career? Wherever you’re heading, let’s go there together.

We will put our very best effort into your personal and professional development – because when you grow, we grow. Whatever your goal is, let’s make each other’s dreams come true. Come grow with us.

Circle Business Centre in Riga, Latvia is looking for:

Business Controller/ Senior Business Controller- FP&A,

Global Food & Loyalty– Europe

PURPOSE OF ROLE:

Reporting to the FP&A – Director – Food & Loyalty, this position is part of the Global Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team providing financial guidance to the Food leadership team.  As a business partner, you will help drive performance from a financial and operational perspective.  This position provides information to facilitate management decisions with respect to P&L / Gross Margin / CAPEX through financial analysis; ad hoc data requests and problem solving; researching and analyzing accounting data; and preparing periodic reporting.

KEY DELIVERABLES:

A) Reporting and controlling:

Prepare and interpret financial reports by compiling and analyzing financial data from different sources and summarizing account information and trends

Maintain and mature P&L models for the Food categories collaborate cross-functionally to align financial data structure to meet the Global Food needs

Analyze and track period financial reports versus budget and prior year performance and provide comments

Assisting Global Food teams with ad hoc financial analysis, overall performance insights into product categories

B) Business planning:

Supporting the overall business planning process across regions

Coordinating and aligning process and deliveries across stakeholders

Coordinating and aligning CAPEX needs/targets/plans with stakeholders

Supporting overall strategy and ambition level setting

C) Financial Modelling:

Build financial models to map potential outcomes of business cases to Financial statements (P&L, FCF, etc.)

Identify and review key drivers and assumptions

D) Investment Decision Support:

Build or Review business cases for strategic initiatives and projects

Ensure that assumptions are attainable and aligned

Standardize, improve and promote investment decision methodologies

Track investment and operating budgets

Educate stakeholders on business case best practices

E) Operational Expenditure Tracking, Analysis and Reporting Process:

Coordinate with OPEX team to report, analyze and provide insight on spending

Assist Functional Groups in spend management

Collaborate with Finance Controller team to provide timely and accurate variance governance report

Support OPEX Finance Controller team in complex questions

F) Improve and Automate Reporting Tools:

Work on process and financial data improvement projects

Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related annual objectives.

Work with the D&A & Loyalty Teams to analyze a broad range of data sources to uncover valuable insights

G) Other:

Ensures compliance with requirements, policies, and regulations by enforcing adherence to corporate systems, policies, and governmental regulations

Assists with special projects as needed

Contributes to team effort by accomplishing annual objectives

Traveling required – approx. 2%-5% of the time

PROFILE AND SKILLS:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business with 5+ years of relevant experience preferably in financial analysis, strategic planning, and/or budgeting and forecasting)

Must have advanced knowledge in Excel, working knowledge PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint

Experience in a commercial setting

Experience working with financial systems (Longview, PDI, JD Edwards, etc.)

Must have strong analytical and quantitative abilities; Must have strong attention to detail while being able to synthesize information

Experience working with large and complex datasets

Strong financial modelling skills

Must have strong communication skills and comfortable interacting with all levels of management

Comfortable working independently, in cross-functional teams, and in a global role

Must be willing to adapt to a dynamic business environment, balancing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines

Have an entrepreneurial and commercial mindset with a strong drive to make it easy

Comfortable initiating actions and taking responsibility to secure agreed output

Collaborate effectively and build professional networks

Motivated by challenging tasks and complex projects across many countries and regions  

WE OFFER:

Monthly salary starting from: 3000 EUR gross (Business Controller), 3600 EUR gross (Senior Business Controller)

Covered tariff plan for your mobile phone

Health insurance

Employee discounts in our stores

Global and fast-paced work environment

Positive atmosphere and great colleagues around you 

An opportunity to shape process and financial performance management in the global functional lines

INTERESTED?

We encourage you to apply by 7th of March, 2025.

We are looking forward to your application! We know great companies are built from within, by great people like you. Come grow with us! 

Circle K Business Centre SIA

PVN Nr: LV40103511774

Duntes iela 6, Rīga, Latvija LV-1013