Join us and spread your wings!
As part of the Global Data Team, you'll act as a bridge between business and IT where you are responsible for understanding business needs and managing complex cross-functional projects for the development of innovative planning solutions that support Red Bull’s data driven business strategy. You'll act within a highly strategic environment as our projects affect all entities & business units worldwide alongside a very integrated finance & sales planning process, where many dependencies must be taken into consideration.
With your deep understanding of planning processes as well as technical solutions and tools, you'll translate business and process requirements into functional concepts as a basis for technical implementation. You'll act as a key player to drive business process improvements as well as support one of our biggest initiatives!
RESPONSIBILITIES
Areas that play to your strengths
All the responsibilities we'll trust you with:
1. You'll work on the development of planning system solutions in the area of Sales (Revenue Growth and Profitability Management) and Finance (P&L COGS, Balance Sheet, Cash flow, quantity of goods) by collecting, analysing and challenging business requirements.
You'll act as a translator between business and IT, defining detailed requirements into system-based concepts, that can be used as basis for technical implementation (BSS - Business Scope Statements). You are responsible for defining scope, and for structuring and documenting the requirements, while ensuring alignment with all cross-functional stakeholders. Therefore, an understanding of business content, cross functional processes and complex solutions is essential.
2. Acting as a business project manager you deliver your own projects within your areas of expertise or participate in highly complex projects. Depending on the project’s complexity, urgency, and length, you'll define which project management approach and methodology to apply to achieve the project goals best.
In close alignment with IT, you'll define a project plan and relevant work packages considering end-to-end process and data flow design. In close alignment with IT you’ll set up realistic timelines considering resources and constraints, track progress and milestones and ensure deadlines are met.
Follow up on the achievement of milestones during the project phases, document them in our project management tools and make sure that deadlines are met. Set the right priorities and communicate proactively with all involved parties.
3. You'll be an active project team member within our biggest initiatives for the upcoming years - shaping the new finance and sales planning process & technical setup for the whole Red Bull Group.
In this multi-year program, you'll contribute to the technological upgrade of our planning processes and systems. Using your business and technical expertise, you'll help define requirements and design processes and data flows to ensure a robust and future proof planning framework.
4. You'll guarantee high quality and functional integration of all technical implementations through defining by setting up efficient testing concepts and executing detailed end-to-end solution testing. Alignment with business stakeholders and orchestrating user acceptance testing are also part of your responsibilities.
After successful testing, you'll deliver the relevant detailed internal technical and process documentation. You will also prepare together with the data & process governance team, business and IT the cut-over plan for the go-live, provide detailed training and conduct a final handover to all stakeholders.
5. Additionally, with your broad understanding of the tool landscape, processes and data flows, you act as a second-level support contact for our planning systems, supporting key users worldwide in case of process or system related issues and questions.
6. Minimum of 5 years working experience in the fields of Revenue Management, Finance, Controlling and/or Sales Systems, ideally gained as a Controller, IT Consultant, Business Consultant, Business Analyst or Requirement engineer.
7. Profound knowledge of system-based planning and reporting tools – ideally SAP BW, SAP CRM, SAP BI-IP Planning, S4/HANA (SD/FI/COPA), SAC, Salesforce, Hyperion Financial Management, etc.
8. Proven track record in Project Management and advanced sills of project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Workfront.
9. Solid controlling/accounting background and understanding of financial processes.
10. Ability to understand complex processes, identify risks and find solutions.
11. High attention to detail with excellent organizational and analytical skills and the capability to handle multiple projects and stakeholders.
12. Strong communication and presentation skills for internal and external stakeholders
13. Team player, self-motivated, goal-oriented, flexible and able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
14. Travel 0-10%
Planning Data & Process Developer (Finance & Sales focus)
Red Bull
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