Strategic Business Controller

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Strategic Business Controller

Your Mission:

The Strategic Business Controller is the key player in the Strategic Business Control team and works in close cooperation with both internal and external stakeholders(s) on strategically important areas for SCC.

Strategic Business Controller operates at the local level and reports to the Strategic & Commerce Business control Manager and is the direct Business Partner to the Finance director and rest of Management team on specific topics related to strategic business topics.

Be the challenging Business Partner for the respective Management Team members and through good understanding of the macroeconomic business context and understanding, lead effective decision making in order to drive sustainable and profitable top-line growth and cost efficiency for Sociedad Central de Cervejas e Bebidas (SCC Portugal)

Who will you report to: Strategic & Commerce business control manager

Location: Vialonga  

Your Responsibilities:

• Maximise long term sustainable business performance by identifying strategic business development opportunities, supporting decision making of internal stakeholders both at the OpCo level & Globally based on the value of these opportunites
• Proactively works with Finance Director to identify, analyse and exploit Strategic business opportunities for the OpCo, and provide financial leadership on (strategic) projects. To do so job holder has a high level of business understanding and builds and maintains relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders
• Developing the capabilities of the rest of team members, providing business insights rather than data and providing scenario modelling analyses.
• Provide advice, guidance, and influence/strengthen decision making for the support areas of the company
• Leading analyses to provide the financial impact of decisions, creating cost and efficiency analyses and leading ad hoc analysis to gain insight where relevant.
• Lead role in the business planning cycle for the 1 to 3-year Strategic  Annual Plans, Operational Plans and Rolling forecasts including providing relevant challenge to relevant stakeholders.
• Drive change programs in terms of new digital tooling and be a key point of contact for projects with the HEINEKEN Central Analytics team and other potential external parties for implementing tooling such as predictive analytics.

We want you to bring:

• Degree and / Or Master’s in management, Economics, Accounting , Corporate Finance
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience Business Controller or Accounting mandatory
• More than 5 Years of relevant experience preferably in international companies
• Experienced working in multinational company with a proven track record for career growth
• Ability to understand complex business processes in order to support insights generation
• Experience with automated systems and affinity with IT ( e.g Power BI, SAP)
• English (mandatory); 
• Portuguese (fluent or native)
• Spanish (fluent or native)
• Ability to relate and influence.
• Project Management skills
• Stakeholder management
• Strong Analytical skills and attention to detail
• Availability to travel national and international.
• Hold the legal documents required for the provision of subordinate labour in Portugal at the time of application (exclusion factor).

At Grupo SCC, we believe that success is only possible when we deliver results, play to win and celebrate victories, when we take courageous steps with our consumers in mind, when we promote a culture of belonging, learning, sharing and reapplying, and when we have authentic conversations and invest in learning and development. These are the characteristics we look for in our people every day and they are also what we are looking for in the future. Our purpose is to inspire a better world by creating moments of true togetherness. And promoting and celebrating diversity is at the heart of this purpose. We believe that people as diverse as our beers - including and not limited to gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, nationality, social origin, disability (Law 4/2019) and way of thinking - enrich our lives and strengthen our business. We welcome and consider all applications because we advocate a culture of inclusion that provides fair and equal opportunities for all people.

At Heineken, we brew great beers and we build great brands. We are committed to surprising and exciting our consumers and employees everywhere. We have a proud history and heritage in brewing and in our communities. With operations in over 70 markets globally, we are the world's most international brewer.