Finance Business Partner Italy

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Barcelona, Barcelona, España Barry Callebaut A tiempo completo

Finance Business Partner Role

The Finance Business Partner for Italy and Iberia will be the right-hand person for financial topics of the Managing Directors and the business partner of the commercial teams. This role supports and advises the local management team in commercial and operational decision-making processes, drives change, and recommends solutions to achieve business goals and targets.

About the Role

This position is responsible for the short- and long-term financial performance of the country cluster Iberia & Italy together with the Italy and Spain management teams. The Finance Business Partner acts as a promoter of Finance digitalization and standardization initiatives and enables the transition into a new finance operating model.

Key Responsibilities

  • Act as a business partner to the Managing Directors and the commercial teams; co-pilot with the business and provide meaningful decision support to management while influencing and challenging key decisions.
  • Develop together with the country cluster Managing Director and his/her commercial team the commercial strategy for the area of responsibility and drive strategy implementation.
  • Steer the MTP (mid-term plan) for the Cluster as per process and guidance set by Global FP&A.
  • Drive the financial performance of the cluster, focusing on profitability and working capital management, in line with strategy and business objectives.
  • Provide analytical support to enable an understanding of the business dynamics.
  • Closely cooperate with FP&A in terms of preparing budgets and forecasts, identifying and supporting cost savings.
  • Lead and coordinate projects to improve business performance, in particular profitability and working capital improvements.
  • Drive and coordinate commercial business case preparation related to business expansions/outourcing deals, chocolate academies, and sales offices.
  • Support transition to the new finance operating model (incl. GBS leverage).
  • Drive improvement initiatives of finance processes, with focus on digitalization and standardization.
  • Collaborate with Pricing to ensure an accurate pricing of products to customers (based on FP&A analysis of pre- and post-calculated costs), including a correct reflection of interest costs in price levels.
  • Ensure integrity and financial controls in the Clusters of the organization by using and building on data, information, and intelligence from global finance functions.

About You

  • Bachelor's/Master's in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or similar.
  • English business proficiency, both written and oral.
  • Extensive experience in finance (prior roles in accounting/FP&A/business partnering in a multinational company, preferably in B2B/food industries).
  • Strong stakeholder management skills in a matrix organization.
  • Open-minded and curious, eager to continuously learn and explore various aspects of finance, self-starter.
  • Analytical/hands-on/flexible, very solution-oriented and performance-driven to achieve targets.
  • Strong team player.
  • Knowledge of SAP (incl. BW).
  • IFRS knowledge.
  • Stakeholder management.
  • Problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  • Ability to handle multiple tasks concurrently and meet deadlines while maintaining focus in an environment with conflicting demands.
  • Strong team player.

This role is located in Italy (Milano) or Spain (Barcelona), and involves travel.



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