Finance Controlling Intern

Finance

Internship (Finance): Finance Controlling

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 April 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)

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.

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 April for a minimum of 6 months, 5 days per week;
• You are fluent in English - spoken and written; Dutch is considered as a plus;
• You are able to work from our Danone Place Amsterdam office, at least 3 days per week;
• Please note that you are required to relocate to the Netherlands (if abroad) for this internship and get a BSN.

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

As a Finance Controlling intern, you will learn practical experience in financial controlling and analytics. And the best part? You’ll be supported from beginning to end by your supervisor and will have the chance to work alongside professionals in the field. Together, we’ll build a healthier world.

We offer a gross monthly internship allowance 650 euros per month and a home working allowance/contribution towards travel. Please do keep in mind that we do not offer relocation and/or accommodation benefits for students coming from abroad.

* Please be aware that you must acquire a BSN number to receive the full internship allowance.

In the Netherlands we also offer a hybrid working environment which enables each team to meet our people's desire for flexibility. Across our 3 office hubs in Hoofddorp, Rijswijk and Utrecht this helps us create better opportunities for connection & synergies across our entities, teams, functions and categories.