Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.
How you will contribute:
Financial Leadership & Performance Management:
- Financial Oversight & Cost Control manage and monitor manufacturing costs, product costing, cost-center performance but also drive cost-efficiency through variance analysis (material, labour, overhead).
- Performance Reporting & Analysis: Lead the site's actual and forecasting processes. Prepare, analyze, and report key operational and financial KPIs. Proactively highlights risks and opportunities to enable timely decision-making and target delivery.
Governance, Compliance & Process Optimization:
- Compliance & Internal Control: Maintain a robust controls and compliance environment across the manufacturing plant, ensuring adherence to corporate policies and audit readiness.
- Continuous Improvement: Drive harmonization and efficiency in financial processes and ways of working. Foster a mindset of continuous improvement within the Finance team, leveraging best practices and digital tools.
Strategic Business Partnership & Cost Management:
- Strategic end-to-end role: Act as a trusted end-to-end finance partner to plant management, supporting the roadmap agenda for the side & providing critical financial perspective and insight to shape business strategies and decisions.
- Cost optimization culture across the organization, empowering stakeholders with clear and proactive cost ownership, identifying significant opportunities for absolute cost reduction, and directly contributing to net productivity and the achievement of critical financial targets.
What you will bring:
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
- Technical expertise in financial planning and performance management including analyzing, planning and reporting company financial performance across all financial KPIs and strategy development, investment decisions and cost management to achieve financial targets.
- Business Acumen and understanding of our business, consumer packaged goods industry, and snacking market including Supply Chain/manufacturing dynamics. Relevant experience in a large regional (or global) corporation.
- Leadership skills enabling cross-functional collaboration with the relevant stakeholders in scope of plant finances.
- Growth & digital mindset and ability to identify opportunities and leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Integrity and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations.
What we are looking for:
- Strategic Business Partner: Proven ability to act as a strong financial business partner with deep manufacturing and business acumen.
- Financial Expertise & Optimization: Demonstrated proficiency in financial performance management, planning, and driving impactful cost optimization initiatives.
- Ownership & Collaboration: you can work independently but also communicate and collaborate effectively with various stakeholders across the finance community and manufacturing network.
- Growth Mindset & Positive Impact: you bring a positive, energetic attitude and are willing to grow with the team and implement changes
Qualification & requirements:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field (required), master's degree (MBA, MSc) or professional certification (CMA, CPA, ACCA) preferred
Experience:
- Minimum 7+ years of progressive experience in finance/controlling, with ideally experiences in a manufacturing or supply chain environment
- Proven track record in plant/site controlling, cost management, or financial business partnering
- Experience managing or developing a team
Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in SAP and advanced Excel
- Experience with financial planning tools
Language Requirements:
- English & German on full professional efficiency level
Location & work arrangement:
- Location: Bern, Switzerland
- Work Arrangement: On-site at the Bern manufacturing plant, with flexibility for occasional remote work in alignment with team and business needs
- Travel: Limited
Relocation Support Available?
No Relocation support available
Business Unit Summary
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
Our people make all the difference in our succes
Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Excited to grow your career?
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
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Job Type
Regular
Finance Planning & Performance Management
Finance
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or related field
- Master's degree (MBA, MSc) or professional certification (CMA, CPA, ACCA)
- Minimum 7+ years progressive experience in finance/controlling
- Experience in manufacturing or supply chain environment
- Proven track record in plant/site controlling, cost management, or financial business partnering
- Experience managing or developing a team
- Proficiency in SAP
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with financial planning tools
- English and German at full professional proficiency
- Ability to work on-site at Bern, Switzerland (with occasional remote flexibility)
Mondelēz International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) structure combines a 4.5% basic company contribution with up to an additional 4.5% match, with company contributions vesting after two years. This provides up to 9% in company contributions when at least 6% is contributed by the employee.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple national medical carrier options are offered with in‑network preventive care at 100%, plus company‑paid basic life insurance and short‑term disability. Optional long‑term disability and supplemental life/AD&D expand protection choices.
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Parental & Family Support — A global parental‑leave standard supports birth, adoptive, and foster parents across the enterprise. Additional supports include adoption and surrogacy assistance, childcare discounts, and an Employee Assistance Program with counseling and well‑being tools.
Mondelēz International Insights
What We Do
Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is an American multinational confectionery, food, and beverage company based in Illinois which employs approximately 90,000 individuals around the world. Our Purpose Our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. Our Brands We’re leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. Our People Our 90,000+ colleagues around the world are key to the success of our business. Our Values and Leadership Commitments of Love our Consumers and Brands, Grow Every Day, and Do What's Right shapes our culture – what we believe in, stand for, and what guides our actions and decisions. Great people and great brands. That’s who we are. Our Strategies We are uniquely positioned to lead the future of snacking with strong leadership in our categories, an unparalleled portfolio of global and local brands, and a solid footprint in fast-growing markets. Aimed at delivering sustainable growth, our strategic plan is centered around three strategic priorities: • Growth: accelerate consumer-centric growth • Execution: drive operational excellence • Culture: build a winning growth culture
Why Work With Us
We offer passionate, energetic and curious people a huge choice of careers in our fun, fast-paced, global business. We operate in four regions: Asia, Middle East & Africa; Europe; Latin America; and North America. And in over 80 countries our people are united in a common purpose to empower people to snack right.
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