About this role
You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.
McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.
Finance Commercial Controller
The Finance Commercial Controller is a senior individual contributor responsible for providing financial leadership, analysis and decision support to the Italian Commercial organization. The role combines commercial finance business partnering with FP&A activities, supporting profitable growth, pricing, customer and product profitability, forecasting and business performance management.
The role works closely with Commercial, Pricing, Key Account Management, R&D and Commercialization teams to translate financial data into meaningful insights and recommendations.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with Commercial and cross-functional stakeholders to support sound, value-creating business decisions.
- Provide financial analysis and insight on customer, product, channel and innovation profitability.
- Support pricing decisions, including assessment of margin impact and profitability risks.
- Challenge assumptions and provide recommendations to protect and improve company profitability.
- Support financial evaluation of commercial initiatives, customer proposals and business cases.
- Support annual budget, forecast and month-end closing processes.
- Monitor business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and communicate timely insights to stakeholders.
- Develop clear, accurate and actionable financial reports and performance dashboards.
- Support continuous improvement of financial planning, reporting and analysis processes.
- Maintain and further develop Power BI reporting and dashboards.
- Ensure the quality, consistency and effective use of financial and commercial data.
- Use Excel and Power BI to analyse trends, model scenarios and support decision-making.
- Support improvements in reporting automation and data visualization.
Candidates Profile:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or a related discipline.
- Several years of relevant experience in Commercial Finance, FP&A, Financial Controlling or Finance Business Partnering.
- Demonstrated experience supporting commercial decision-making and profitability analysis.
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, financial performance management and variance analysis.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including modelling and data analysis.
- Strong Power BI capability, including creation, maintenance and updating of reports and dashboards.
- Professional fluency in Italian and English, both written and spoken.
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Compensation : starting from € 39 000 per year: STARTING SALARY*
Final salary will be determined as part of any final offer and will consider factors such as skills, education, role-specific experience, and internal equity among current employees.
Eligible roles may also participate in one of McCormick’s Bonus Plans. In addition to a competitive compensation package, McCormick employees are eligible for our comprehensive Total Rewards programs, which include, but are not limited to:
- Industry-specific supplementary Pension plan (Fondi di previdenza Complementare di categoria)
- Industry-specific supplementary Health plan (Fondo sanitario integrative di categoria)
- Other benefits
McCormick ensures compensation is determined in line with the principle of equal pay for work of equal value, regardless of gender.
The CCNL classification will be defined during the selection process based on the candidate’s profile.
Employment Terms and conditions will be governed by Italian National Collective Bargaining Agreement (CCNL) for the:
- Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry.
Agencies: McCormick as needed will work with external recruitment vendors through our Agency Portal. Unless previously contacted, McCormick does not accept unsolicited resumes from external recruiting agencies.
McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies.