Redcare Pharmacy

FP&A Analyst / Finance Business Partner

In short

This role coordinates Group-wide financial planning and forecasting, and acts as a finance business partner to HR and Pharma Operations functions, including budgeting, variance analysis, and business-case development. The employer is a large European e-pharmacy company, and the role offers exposure to senior leadership including the Managing Board. It requires about four to six years of FP&A or business controlling experience, strong Excel and financial-modelling skills, and ideally experience with the Pigment planning platform. Work is hybrid, based in Cologne, Germany.

About the role
As Europe's No.1 e-pharmacy, Redcare Pharmacy is powered by passionate teams and cutting-edge innovation. We strive to create a healthy collaborative work environment where every employee feels valued and inspired to contribute to our vision "Until every human has their health". We are looking for a Senior FP&A Analyst / Finance Business Partner to help shape the future of financial planning and business partnering at Redcare Pharmacy.
Responsibilities
Group Financial Planning & Forecasting:
•Coordinate and continuously improve Group-wide financial planning and forecasting processes, ensuring consistency, accuracy, and transparency across the organisation.
•Leverage technology, including the FP&A platform Pigment and AI-driven solutions, to increase efficiency, strengthen financial insights, and further professionalise planning capabilities.
Finance Business Partnering:
•Act as a trusted financial advisor to the Human Resources and Pharma Operations functions, providing financial insights, challenging business assumptions, and supporting strategic and operational decision-making.
•Connect financial performance with business drivers to help stakeholders identify opportunities to improve performance and create value.
•The position offers broad exposure to senior leadership, including members of the Managing Board, and the opportunity to contribute to strategic initiatives within a fast-growing international company.
Financial planning and performance management:
•Coordinate and continuously improve Group-wide financial planning and forecasting processes.
•Own the planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance-management cycles for Human Resources and Pharma Operations.
•Prepare insightful monthly performance analyses, variance reports, and management presentations.
•Coordinate HR reporting at Group level, including headcount and personnel-cost analysis.
•Analyse financial performance, operational KPIs, and key cost drivers to identify risks, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
•Improve forecasting accuracy, planning methodologies, and financial transparency.
•Use Pigment, automation, and AI-driven solutions to make FP&A processes more efficient and effective.
Strategic business partnering:
•Act as a trusted finance partner to the Head of HR, the Head of Pharma Operations, and their leadership teams.
•Challenge assumptions and provide evidence-based recommendations that support sound business decisions.
•Identify financial risks and opportunities and help stakeholders translate them into concrete actions.
•Develop and evaluate business cases for strategic investments, transformation programmes, and growth initiatives.
•Build scenario models and financial-impact assessments to support key decisions.
•Communicate complex financial topics clearly to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
Requirements
•Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related discipline.
•Approximately four to six years of experience in FP&A, business controlling, financial analysis, or a comparable role.
•Strong understanding of financial planning, forecasting, performance management, and business-case development.
•Solid financial-modelling skills, with the ability to turn complex data into practical insights and recommendations.
•Highly proficient in Excel, with experience using analytical tools such as Power Query, Power Pivot, or similar solutions.
•Experience with Pigment or another enterprise planning platform is an advantage.
•Confident communicator, able to build effective relationships with senior stakeholders, cross-functional colleagues, and international teams.
•Curious, proactive, and comfortable challenging established assumptions constructively.
•Continuously looks for opportunities to improve processes through technology, automation, and AI.
Benefits
•Work from Home: for roles that don't require office presence, work location can be arranged individually - up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
•Redcare events: teambuilding through creative team events and celebrations at regularly scheduled parties.
•Kindergarten Grant: €100.00 (total) per month for employees who pay for childcare in kindergarten.
•Mental health: free, anonymous access to professional psychologists via nilo.
•Personal Development: support for career development through internal and external training.
•Mobility: a fully costed Deutschland Ticket provided for commuting.
•Sports & Health: membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club with a variety of sports offers.

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