MSC Finance Analyst, Food EMEA - Texturizers (m/f/d)

Job Purpose and Impact

The MSC Finance Analyst job performs moderately complex managerial accounting activities in support of financial decision making. With limited supervision, this job drafts financial reports, analyzes financial data and proposes recommendations on budgeting and forecasting processes. This job also participates in the continuous improvement of management information systems, reporting standards and business metric development to drive data informed business decisions.

Work in hybrid system.

Locations: Düsseldorf and Hamburg.

Key Accountabilities

• REPORT DRAFTING: Drafts moderately complex financial and non-financial reports for internal partners by gathering, prioritizing and analyzing financial and non-financial data and key performance indicators.


• BUSINESS PERFORMANCE TRACKING: Prepares reports and dashboards to track business performance against plans, budgets, forecasts and other key performance indicators.


• DECISION SUPPORT: Identifies insights based on financial analysis and research to support strategic business decision making and value creation.


• COST ANALYSIS: Analyzes costs associated with products, projects, or specific plants to help better understand cost drivers and opportunities for improvement.


• CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Maintains knowledge of industry trends and accounting standards, ensuring compliance and driving process innovation and continuous improvement within the department to increase effectiveness and efficiency.


• MANAGEMENT REPORTING: Implements the approved effective management reporting practices to ensure data integrity and relevancy.


• RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT: Maintains close partnerships with business leaders and business teams to understand local and regional business needs and collaborates with other finance leads to deliver on overall finance function expectations.


• RISK & CONTROL REPORTING: Reviews of various moderately complex reports including risk and mitigation controls reports, to identify and address any gaps, vulnerabilities, or inefficiencies in an organization's control environment.

Minmum qualifications

• Professional experience in Finance, Plant Controlling, FP&A or Business Finance roles.


• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business recommendations.


• Experience in cost controlling, budgeting and financial performance monitoring in a manufacturing or industrial environment.


• Proficiency in SAP.


• Fluent German and professional English, with strong stakeholder management and business partnering capabilities.


• Availability for business travel to our facilities in Malchin and Hamburg