Senior Commercial Controlling Director

1 month ago


Shanghai, Shanghai, China Ferrero Full time
Job Overview

Ferrero is a global confectionery company with a presence in over 50 countries and a portfolio of iconic brands such as Nutella, Tic Tac, and Kinder.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the commercial planning process, ensuring timely execution and effective coordination with commercial departments.
  • Monitor and analyze monthly closings, providing explanations for deviations from budget and forecast.
  • Support Area Commercial Controlling in aligning commercial agenda and explaining variances.
  • Ensure compliance with financial data loading procedures into information systems.
  • Act as a business partner, supporting commercial functions in assessing and monitoring commercial levers (S&OP, volume, pricing, Gross to Net, A&P, OVH).
Main Job Requirements
  1. Planning and Forecasting
    • Lead budget, SAF, and LE processes, aligning with key stakeholders and meeting group deadlines for Business Units.
    • Track business actual performance, lead gap analysis vs. plans, provide explanations, and drive action plans.
    • Support Sales and Trade-Marketing to build OP by Channel and key customers.
  2. Controlling and Reporting
    • Ensure monthly and year-end closings activities, performing variance analysis (products, margins, advertising investments, etc.).
    • Lead monthly topline forecast, ensure Trade Spending compliance, manage trade-spend forecasting process (including R&O), drive monthly TS consensus meetings with Sales and Trade Marketing.
    • Drive off-line customer profitability process, drive investment return optimization, and channel profitability improvements.
  3. Team Management
    • Recruit, manage, coach, develop, and motivate the team.
    • Ensure effective team management with clear definition and alignment on activities planning.
    • Ensure team professional development, manage team evaluations, and propose development initiatives aligned with HR.
Requirements and Qualifications
  • University degree or above in finance sphere.
  • 10+ work experience in Finance / FP&A / Controlling or related field in multinational and matrix organization; preferably in FMCG companies.
  • Strong analytical skills, business acumen, and sound understanding of financial statements and processes.
  • Highly motivated with a strong sense and ability to proactively engage internal and external stakeholders to develop value-added solutions.
  • Fluent oral and written English and Mandarin
  • Excellent Communication skills; self-motivated and manage to handle multi-tasks, prioritizing, and meet deadlines.
  • Good interpersonal skills and team-management.
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero

Consumers, quality, and care are at the heart of everything we do. To be successful at Ferrero, you'll need to be dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.



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