Procurement Finance Manager (EU)

Career Opportunity

Life tastes better with ice cream

With 19.000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry.

We create iconic ice cream brands that are part of everyday life, bringing moments of joy to millions of people around the world. Everybody loves ice cream. And as the world’s biggest pure-play ice cream company, we have the scale and ambition to make a real difference.

What truly sets us apart is how we work.

We move fast and keep things simple. We turn ideas into action, trust people to take ownership, and work as one team to win together with integrity. Our culture is high-performance, collaborative and focused on getting things done.

We’re curious and ready for what’s next. We embrace digital, use data to make better decisions, and keep learning, including how AI can help us work smarter and serve consumers better.

The Procurement Finance Manager (EU) serves as a central expert within the European Procurement Organization and a trusted business partner to the Europe Procurement Director and Europe Operations. This role drives consistency, efficiency, and transparency across the region by centralizing, standardizing, and continuously improving critical processes within the Materials Controlling domain.

Core Responsibilities

Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to the Europe Procurement Director and Europe Operations.
• Co-pilot Procurement savings initiatives, challenge buyers on opportunities and scale of savings, support benchmarking and value creation initiatives and support capability building within the Finance Controlling community.
• Support Group Operations & Finance leadership as a center of Excellence for Procurement.
• Develop and institutionalize frameworks that enhance visibility and transparency of commodity price evolution (Raw, Packs, Energy) and related variances.

Lead and supervise all Controlling Activities related to materials, including planning and reporting.

Planning

• Drive a consistent and efficient actuals, forecasting, and transfer price (TP) process in close collaboration with Supply Chain Finance, Global Procurement, and Finance Support teams.

Reporting

• Own monthly reporting cycles, including actual PPV with clear variance explanations.
• Manage monthly savings reporting.
• Manage monthly material forecasts with key drivers.
• Manage quarterly TP submissions.
• Provide good visibility to the markets on underlying cost drivers.
• Manage hedging and commodity exposure reporting.

Supply Chain Service Reporting

• Oversee monthly and quarterly Supply Chain Service reporting, ensuring accuracy, alignment, and transparency.

P&L Impact Analysis

• Provide clear understanding of material-related P&L impacts.

Process, Tools & Project Leadership

• Lead and actively contribute to Europe Material Controlling reporting development projects.
• Continuously improve cross-functional processes and ways of working.
• Support deployment of Group tools in Procurement Controlling (Forecasting, Savings).
• Build and enhance digitalized reporting solutions within the Material Controlling area.

Performance Management

• Monitor and challenge financial and operational performance versus budgets and forecasts.
• Ensure Procurement savings (cost reduction and cost avoidance) are accurate, measurable, aligned across stakeholders and fully integrated in Group performance tracking.

Candidate Profile

• Master’s degree (MSc) or MBA in Finance or Business Economics.
• 7+ years of experience in Financial & Business Control in an international environment, ideally FMCG. Previous experience in procurement finance is a strong plus.
• Strong command of Excel, Power BI and SAP.
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal.
• Strong “can do” and “can transform” mindset; challenges the status quo.
• Proven ability to build new processes and reporting frameworks from scratch.
• Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement and standardization across Supply Chain Controlling.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex financial data to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.

Why join us?

This is a place for people who are passionate about ice cream and are growth obsessed - both for the business and for themselves. People who act like an owner and drive our business end-to-end. People who are driven by success to deliver more than we ever thought we could!

You’ll thrive here if you value an inclusive culture, with low ego and hierarchy - and if you’re excited to continuously learn and challenge how we work, using digital, data, and new thinking to push us forward.

• Roles with real accountability and visible impact
• Free to move fast, experiment and challenge how things are done
• Continuous learning and development as the business grows
• Reward linked to performance and contribution

Your career here is shaped by what you deliver, as you work across functions and markets and grow with the business.