About the Role
The Finance Business Partner - Ice Cream is a strategic finance partner for the Romania & Moldova Ice Cream business, providing financial leadership, performance insights, and decision support to drive sustainable and profitable growth. The role partners closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and the Country Leadership Team, ensuring robust financial planning, performance management, and execution of strategic business initiatives across both markets.
Responsibilities
•Own the full Ice Cream P&L for Romania & Moldova, providing clear visibility of business performance, key drivers, risks, and opportunities.
•Lead month-end closing activities and ensure accurate and timely reporting of business results in local, regional, and global reporting systems.
•Prepare monthly and quarterly forecasts, including assumptions, risks, opportunities, and mitigation plans, while ensuring alignment with business stakeholders.
•Provide ongoing analysis of actual performance versus forecast, budget, and annual operating plan, highlighting key variances and recommending corrective actions.
•Partner with the Romania & Moldova Leadership Team to drive financial performance and deliver business commitments.
•Continuously monitor market dynamics, category performance, pricing trends, and profitability drivers impacting the Ice Cream business.
•Identify and drive initiatives to improve P&L performance, accelerating opportunities and mitigating risks.
•Develop and evaluate business cases for innovations, new product launches, pack-price architecture, promotional activities, and strategic investments.
•Support category and brand growth strategies through robust financial analysis and decision support.
•Collaborate with Marketing teams on innovation pipelines, media investments, business cases, and long-term category strategy.
•Partner with Sales teams on customer profitability, trade investment decisions, pricing strategies, commercial negotiations, and revenue growth management initiatives.
•Work cross-functionally with Supply Chain and Demand Planning teams to evaluate operational and financial impacts on business performance.
•Ensure alignment between customer, category, and financial objectives to support sustainable growth across Romania & Moldova.
•Influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels through fact-based recommendations and actionable insights.
Requirements
•Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial insights into business actions and recommendations.
•Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail and advanced Excel modelling capabilities.
•Ability to identify performance drivers, risks, and opportunities, and proactively recommend actions to improve business results.
•Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams.
•Excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of influencing both Finance and non-Finance stakeholders.
•Ability to simplify complex financial topics and communicate them in a clear and actionable manner.
•Resilience and adaptability in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple priorities and tight deadlines.
•Collaborative mindset with the ability to work effectively across functions and levels of the organization.
•Creative and innovative thinking, with a continuous improvement approach to business challenges and opportunities.
•Strong business partnering capabilities, including the confidence to challenge assumptions and influence decision-making.
Experience & Qualifications
•Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
•Hands-on experience with SAP and related financial reporting systems is mandatory.
•Several years of relevant experience in Finance Business Partnering, Commercial Finance, FP&A, Revenue Growth Management, or a similar finance role.
•Proven experience managing and driving P&L performance, including the identification of risks, opportunities, and performance improvement initiatives.
•Experience developing forecasts, budgets, business cases, and financial analyses to support business decisions.
•Demonstrated ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders while building strong cross-functional partnerships.
•Experience working with Sales, Marketing, and other commercial functions to deliver profitable growth.
•Strong track record of presenting financial insights and recommendations to both Finance and non-Finance audiences.
•Experience operating in a complex stakeholder environment and managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
•FMCG or Consumer Goods experience is highly desirable.
•Professional finance qualification (ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent) is considered an advantage.
What the Company Offers
•Roles with real accountability and visible impact.
•Freedom to move fast, experiment and challenge how things are done.
•Continuous learning and development as the business grows.
•Reward linked to performance and contribution.
•A career shaped by what you deliver, working across functions and markets as you grow with the business.
•An inclusive culture with low ego and hierarchy.
