(Junior) Financial Business Partner Operations (all genders)

Job Summary

As a (Junior) Financial Business Partner Operations, you play a vital role within our Ops Controlling team, bridging the gap between supply chain activities and financial performance.

Key Responsibilities

Your core tasks will include:

• Inventory Reporting & Analysis: Own the monthly inventory reporting and forecasting process. Analyze stock levels, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to optimize working capital.
• Sales & Demand Planning: Conduct monthly sales and demand planning checks, ensuring financial alignment and consistency between operational forecasts and commercial targets.
• Purchase Order Management & Budget Control: Oversee the approval workflow for Purchase Orders (POs) and track PO budget consumption to ensure cost control and budget compliance.
• Slow Mover Management: Take ownership of slow-moving inventory. This includes conducting long-tail analyses, calculating necessary write-offs/provisions, and coordinating scrapping requests.
• COGS & Margin Analysis: Analyze Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) and its direct impact on the contribution margin, helping identify profitability drivers including tracking of special/one-off effects within COGS.
• Backup & Process Resilience: Act as backup for closing-relevant Ops Controlling tasks, ensuring continuity of critical month-end and reporting processes.

Requirements

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in Controlling, FP&A, or Financial Reporting roles.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, PowerQuery, pivot tables, modeling).
• Experience with ERP systems, ideally Business Central and/or SAP.
• Strong understanding of inventory management.
• Ability to manage large data sets with precision and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex financial concepts simply.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in a consumer products, retail, or subscription business.
• Familiarity with Power BI, SQL, or other analytics tools.
• Exposure to multi-entity or multi-currency reporting.
• Experience in a fast-growing, international environment.

Benefits

• Global Teamwork: Collaborate across departmental and country borders on our vision to bring the Toniebox into every child's room in the world.
• Come as you are: Dress code and everything else.
• Mobility: Choose the option that suits you best - a Deutschlandticket, a monthly contribution for an office parking space, a leasing bicycle, or a remote work subsidy.
• Enhanced Security: Benefit from subsidies for company pension plans, occupational pension schemes, and occupational disability insurance.
• Rest & Time Off: Enjoy 30 days of paid annual leave plus three additional days off.
• Continuous Learning: Benefit from our internal and external training opportunities as well as an individual learning budget.
• Language Learning & Relaxation: Improve your communication skills with the language learning app Babbel and find relaxation through our access to the meditation app Calm.
• Discounts: Benefit from attractive discounts on our entire range of tonies products.