Metro Global Solution Center - Senior Group Manager - Controlling

Metro Global Solution Center (MGSC) is internal solution partner for METRO, a 31 Billion international wholesaler with operations in more than 30 countries.

The store network comprises a total of 623 stores in 21 countries, of which 522 offer out-of-store delivery (OOS), and 94 dedicated depots.

In 12 countries, METRO runs only the delivery business by its delivery companies (Food Service Distribution, FSD).

HoReCa and Traders are core customer groups of METRO.

The HoReCa section includes hotels, restaurants, catering companies as well as bars, cafés and canteen operators.

The Traders section includes small grocery stores and kiosks.

The majority of all customer groups are small and medium-sized enterprises as well as sole traders.

METRO helps them manage their business challenges more effectively.

MGSC, location wise is present in Pune (India), D- sseldorf (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland).

We provide HR, Finance, IT & Business operations support to 31 countries, speak 24+ languages and process over 18,000 transactions a day.

We are setting tomorrows standards for customer focus, digital solutions, and sustainable business models.

For over 10 years, we have been providing services and solutions from our two locations in Pune and Szczecin.

This has allowed us to gain extensive experience in how we can best serve our internal customers with high quality and passion.

We believe that we can add value, drive efficiency, and satisfy our customers.

Website : Size : 500-1000.

Headquarters : Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Type : Privately Held.

Inception : 2011.

Job Description :

Required Functional skills :

• Drive culture and mind set change within teams.
• Part of leadership team in driving Organization strategy & Transformation.
• Lead finance target picture roadmap realization for FPNA (Controlling), Process and managing transition & projects, adhering to project milestones & timelines.
• Monitor, track and control project outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
• Experience in leading teams in specific processes like Forecasting, budgeting, strategic planning and monitoring (value creation plans), reporting and analysis, Management financial performance overview and support management decision.
• Responsible for presenting financial performance updates at all relevant meetings and reporting on all the key metrics of performance.
• Ensure that key performance reporting is accessible, user focused, and action orientated.
• Ensure complying with all corporate governance (Capex approval, budget etc.) and identifying and escalating risk when required.
• Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgeting and overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting in compliance and regulatory guidelines and IFRS.
• Responsible for the forecast and reporting of Free Cash Flow, being able to analyze and propose corrective actions.
• Delivering value to countries through business case realization & improving customer experience (NPS).
• Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Develop and deliver proposals for new process transitions and presentations to various audiences, including GBS Leadership team, sponsors, CFOs and key stakeholders.
• Background in Lean Six Sigma is a plus.
• IFRS Certification is a plus.
• Exposure to IT industry / running IT projects (Automation / ERP implementation) is a plus.
• International Exposure (Min 6 months) is a plus.
• Experience in using big databases.
• Responsible for Developing and managing budgets, forecasting future financial performance, and analyzing variances for India & Poland GSC entities.
• Preparing and analyzing financial statements (Income statements, cash flow statements) for India & Poland GSC entities.
• Conducting in-depth analysis of financial data to support business decisions and identify areas for

improvement.

information for decision making.

Required Technical Competencies

Managerial Requirements

Additional Information

Behavioral Competencies

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