Senior Business Controller

GrandVision is a global leader in optical retailing and delivers high quality and affordable eye care to more and more customers around the world. The high quality eye care offered by GrandVision includes a wide range of services provided by its vision expert, prescription glasses including frames and lenses, contact lenses and contact lens care products, and sunglasses both plain and with prescription lenses. These products are offered through leading optical retail banners which operate more than 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. GrandVision serves its customers in over 7,000 stores and with more than 37,000 employees which are proving every day that in EYE CARE, WE CARE MORE.

Some key figures:

• 7,000+ stores in more than 40 countries
• 30 retail banners
• over 800,000 store visitors per day
• ~17 million prescription glasses sold
• Revenue 2018: EUR 3,7 billion
• EBITDA 2018: EUR 576 million
• Over 37,000 employees

Our vision is to provide high quality and affordable eye care to more and more people around the world. By doing so, GrandVision aspires to help them realize their full potential in life.

Developing Careers & Potential

Within all GrandVision companies we recruit for a career, not just a job. We are passionate about customer satisfaction and develop our people to look for growth potential within the job and within the company. Our preference is to always promote internally where possible. So, wherever people start, there’s always somewhere else to go. We strive for continuous improvement and our new recruits help us to further raise the future potential of our company. Our whole business is full of people who have gone on to achieve a successful career through experiencing a variety of different roles in different locations and area of our business. We continually support and develop our people who have the desire, ambition and potential to grow.

With customers, stores and employees located in over 40 countries, GrandVision shows diversity to be at the core of its success. Grandvision is a global company proud and committed to be an equal opportunity employer.

Senior Business Controller

Schiphol, Amsterdam Area

The Global Headquarters of GrandVision is located at Schiphol airport. From here shared services are provided to country organizations in the areas of finance business partnering, customer experience & digital, category management, supply chain, human resources, information technology and finance. The Group Business Control department of the Global Headquarters is responsible for the finance business partnering, management reporting & dashboarding, forecasting, decision/M&A support and control over the P&L for all activities in the geographical cluster. In this role your main partners in business are the cluster VP, cluster Finance Director and local Opco management and business controllers.

Reports to

Head of Group Business Control

Responsibilities

• Finance business partnering for senior management geographical cluster
• Drive strategy realization
• Attend and drive business review meetings
• Responsible for coordinating P&C cycle in cluster
• Analysis on results and foresights
• Benchmarking, best practice sharing and implementation
• Decision support for strategic investments
• M&A integration support
• Participate in, and follow up on audits/projects
• Ad hoc analysis

Required qualifications/level of education

• University degree in business administration, business economics and/or management control
• 8+ years of relevant experience
• Strong experience in finance business partnering in cooperation with senior management
• Strong knowledge of Business Control and/or FP&A
• Experience in sharing and implementing best practices
• Strong Excel and dashboarding knowledge
• Hyperion and SAP knowledge is a pre
• Willingness to travel (<10%)
• Internationally mobile for a future career within Finance GrandVision

Core competencies/ Personal attributes

• Positive, customer first, can do attitude
• Pro-active and strong team player but not afraid to challenge
• High level of energy and ambition to realise a positive impact
• Highly adaptable to new environments; with a natural ability to embrace learning and develop through experience
• High level of integrity
• Leading by example
• Experience with working in a multi-national environment is a pre

Key skills, knowledge and experience

• Strong knowledge of English (written & spoken)

More about GrandVision: www.grandvision.com
Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grandvision