Senior Sales Controller

Finance

Senior Sales Controller

Join us as a Senior Sales Controller, partnering with Sales to drive key business initiatives and deliver financial insights. You’ll lead forecasting, reporting, and long-term planning, ensuring compliance and process optimisation. We seek an analytical, proactive finance professional with a passion for business improvement. Thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment where your expertise shapes commercial success.

About the Job

• Support Sales in defining a strategy by client, and challenging consistency of Trade spend allocation and action plan in line with strategy.
• Optimize return on investment of promotion, trade terms and other topline activation levers alongside topline teams. A real business challenger.
• Develop strong business partnering relationships with Sales team and have strong influence on allocation of resources across channels, customers and brands.
• Support significant investments (GS to NS) with reliable and meaningful analysis.
• Lead process and projects such as BI-impulse, TT-harmonization, Customer master data, SAP.
• Manage large budgets across different channels; retail, e-com. Direct interactions with topline directors (weekly).

The objectives of the role are:

• Serve as a business partner to Sales counterparts, collaborating on key business initiatives and providing a financial perspective.
• Prepare together with Sales forecast including risks & opportunities.
• Perform month-end activities, fulfill group and internal reporting requirements and make sure everything is properly reflected in the systems, ensuring compliance with the Danone accounting requirements and internal control rules.
• Key contributor of long term planning for the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Strategic Plan, working closely with cross-functional business partners, Finance leadership and the BU General Manager.
• Create quantitative models that provide timely financial insights to support business leaders in sales decisions.
• Continuously work to streamline and automate processes.

Meet your future manager!

Your manager will be Silvie Cauchi, Head of Gross Margin Controlling EDP.

About you

• You are an experienced financial professional who has a natural drive to improve business performance and have a genuine passion for what we do.
• Thrive in dynamic and fast-paced environments where building relationships, collaborating cross-functionally and being a team player is crucial.
• Highly analytical and detail-oriented but also always able to see the bigger picture.
• Proactive with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to be able to build strong relationships.
• Relevant professional experience in finance/controlling (preferable FMCG).
• Resilience and agility and able to adapt quickly to fast changing environment.

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 Offer

It’s an exciting time to join Danone. You’ll build meaningful relationships and networks working with large, dynamic brands. And the best part? You’ll be supported to grow an impactful career that you can be proud of. Together, we’ll build a healthier world.

All Danoners receive a complete package of benefits. This includes a competitive salary and yearly bonus, a premium free pension and great discounts on health insurance and Danone products. We understand the importance of flexibility and offer 30 days of annual leave (with the opportunity to purchase more) and a hybrid working environment, where you can work either from home or from one of our People Hubs in Hoofddorp, Utrecht and Rijswijk.

Need more information? Please contact Claudia Llona, Talent Acquisition Manager via claudia.llona@danone.com.