Internship: Finance Controlling (September intake)

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Internship: Finance Controlling (September intake)

About the job

Do you love analyzing financial data and optimizing processes? Are you detail-oriented and enthusiastic about finance? Then apply now and join us as our new Finance Controlling Intern in our Danone Place Amsterdam office starting August/September 2025!

About the Job

In this internship, you will be part of the Danone Trading BV Controlling team, within our Finance business/category. Our purpose is to maintain and optimize financial performance. During this internship, you will collaborate with various teams and coordinate/support on financial initiatives. Your main responsibilities include:

• Maintain and timely update the performance review dashboard for 3 entities (Danone Trading BV (ELN and AMN) and Dutch Holdings)
• Collaborate with team members to gather relevant performance data from different stakeholders.
• Contribute to monitor key financial performance indicators (recurring operating profit (ROP) and free cash flow (FCF)) in terms of monthly/YTD movement and movement vs Rolling forecast (RF)
• Analyze financial data to identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement.
• Create visualizations (charts, graphs) to present insights effectively.
• Suggest actionable recommendations based on financial analysis.
• Contribute to the working process review to identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies in the existing processes.
• Propose enhancements to streamline workflows working on automation of working files (e.g. actual/rolling forecast (RF)/landing monitoring (LM) working files)
• Implement changes and measure their impact by postmortems.
• Maintain documentation related to financial reporting, processes (actual/rolling forecast (RF)/landing), and improvements in the right place/shared folder structure.
• Deliver an automated dashboard with visualizations (charts, graphs) to present insights effectively by collaborating with IT/Finance and software teams for implementing enhancements and streamline workflows with automation of working files and use of available tools (Power BI)

Meet your future manager! Your manager will be Jorge Robaina, reachable by email: Jorge.ROBAINA@danone.com.

About you

As a Finance Controlling intern, attention to detail will be second nature to you. You can analyze data effectively and have strong communication skills. On top of that? You’re an organized individual who’s always looking for opportunities to learn and develop. Please note that PowerBI knowledge and previous (Academic or professional) experience is necessary.

There are also some compulsory requirements:

• Enrolled as a Master’s student during the whole internship period (if you are a non-EU citizen, you need to be enrolled at a Dutch university);
• Ideally available to start in September for a minimum of 6 months, 5 days per week;
• You are fluent in English - spoken and written
• You are able to work from our Danone Place Amsterdam office, at least 3 days per week;

About Danone

Working at Danone is a unique experience. It’s fast-paced and complex and, at times, it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities to learn and grow working with some of the best-known brands in the world, like Evian, Alpro, Nutricia, Activia and Nutrilon. Bring your unique perspective, ambitions and entrepreneurial ideas to the table – the impact you could make might just surprise you. One Planet. One Health – BY YOU.

We’re proud to be a B-Corp certified company. That means we meet the highest verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability in everything we do.

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we base our hiring decisions on merit, job requirements and business needs.

We Offer

In addition to gaining invaluable hands-on experience at a large multinational organization, we offer:

• A competitive gross internship allowance of 650 euros per month (based on a full-time internship);
• Home working allowance of 2.40 euros per day;
• A public transport travel card covering all office-related travel;
• Hybrid working environment allowing for desired flexibility;
• Career advice opportunities such as workshops, seminars, networking events;
• International environment with 140 different nationalities in Danone NL;
• Active Internship community with 100+ interns across the Netherlands.

* all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status

Job details

Dedicated to bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we are a leading global food & beverage company built on four businesses: Essential Dairy and Plant-Based Products, Waters, Early Life Nutrition and Medical Nutrition.