The Corporate Controller Operations is a key business partner for International Operations – owning and driving COGS and Investments for the L&S Group. He/she will have significant exposure to Group Management and key leaders in Lindt subsidiaries. In addition to possessing strong analytical and influencing skills, the position is ideal for someone who is ambitious and internationally mobile after completion of this role.
Main Tasks:
Investment Controlling
- Assess investment requests of L&S subsidiaries from a financial & risk point of view, recommendations to Group Management
- Manage group investment target achievement
- Assessment of finished projects
Business Partnering for Operations and subsidiaries
- Act as Finance sparring partner for group operation teams (Corporate Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, R&D, EHS, Industrial Performance, Sustainability, IT) & local operations teams in subsidiaries
- Performance management and support of selected subsidiaries as group finance business partner: Follow‐up on deviations and identifying risks at an early stage. Attending planning meetings, business reviews, Year-end reviews
Planning and Forecasting
- Responsibility for COG- and ICP-forecasting and planning cycles
- Leading general planning cycle administration on group level
Analysis and Reporting
- Analysis and reporting of Manufacturing P&L, production key figures, production costs and distribution expenses as part of year-end and monthly-closings as well as planning cycles
- Compilation of Manufacturing P&L report once per year
S4FARI Operations Template and other projects
- Ensuring standardized S4FARI operations template, in alignment with Finance Manual
- Finance stream lead or support in group operations projects or overarching regional projects
Cost saving initiatives
- Accountability for Fitness Reporting
- Co-lead, together with Industrial Performance, initiatives to reduce conversion costs
- Co-lead COGP benchmark analysis between subsidiaries. Initialize projects in coordination with local subsidiaries and global purchase / operations to identify and realize cost savings.
Finance Manual and Associated Tagetik Forms
- Content responsible for all the relevant chapters with regards to Manufacturing, COGS, Distribution expenses and Investment procedure
Your Profile:
- Education: Bachelor/ Master’s degree in business administration, finance or accounting
- Min. 5 years of experience in Operations- or Supply Chain-Controlling
- Proficiency in English and ideally another language (German, French, Italian)
- Excellent MS Excel Skills
- Natural affinity for IT and Business Software
- SAP, Tagetik and BI-knowhow is an advantage
- Team-player attitude, building positive work relationships and working across functional boundaries
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels, and across all departments
- Strategy and business focus by understanding the business, providing decision-support and generating suitable recommendations
- Flexible and adaptive to changing business demands
- Drive for results and resilience to work under tight deadlines
- Entrepreneurial spirit, taking ownership and striving for excellence in execution with a proactive attitude
- Eager to learn and develop
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in business administration, finance or accounting
- Minimum 5 years experience in Operations- or Supply Chain-Controlling
- Proficiency in English
- Knowledge of German, French or Italian
- Excellent MS Excel skills
- Natural affinity for IT and business software
- SAP knowledge
- Tagetik knowledge
- Business Intelligence (BI) know-how
- Strong communication and influencing skills across levels and functions
- Experience with forecasting, planning cycles, and Manufacturing P&L analysis
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and drive results
What We Do
The Lindt & Sprüngli Group - premium chocolate for more than 175 years Lindt & Sprüngli is recognized as a leader in the market for premium quality chocolate, offering a large selection of products in more than 120 countries around the world. During 175 years of Lindt & Sprüngli's existence, it has become known as one of the most innovative and creative companies making premium chocolate. The beginnings of Lindt & Sprüngli are in 1845, when father and son for the first time manufactured solid chocolate in their small confectionery Sprüngli & Son, at that time yet a partnership. Since then, the company has gone through many different eras, but the entrepreneurial spirit and passion for making chocolate that drove both the Sprüngli family as well as Rodolphe Lindt, when he invented the first truly melting chocolate and later on sold his business to Sprüngli, are still alive. Today, quality chocolate products by Lindt & Sprüngli are made at 12 own production sites in Europe and the USA. They are distributed by 36 subsidiaries and branch offices, in more than 530 own stores, and also via a comprehensive network of more than 100 independent distributors around the globe. With more than 14,500 employees, the Lindt & Sprüngli Group reported sales of CHF 5.2 billion in 2023.
