Financial Controller

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Ferrero ZA

Published 2026-03-20

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About the Role

The Financial Controller plays a key role in supporting the Commercial organization by providing financial insights, performance monitoring, and analytical guidance to drive profitable and sustainable growth. Acting as a strategic business partner to Sales and Trade Marketing teams, the role ensures that commercial investments, pricing strategies, and promotional activities are aligned with company financial objectives and Group guidelines. The position also contributes to strengthening financial discipline across commercial operations by enhancing forecasting accuracy, monitoring trade spend effectiveness, and improving reporting tools and processes to support data-driven decision making.
Main Responsibilities Act as a key business partner to the Commercial team by providing financial insights, analysis, and guidance to support profitable and sustainable growth.
Collaborate closely with Sales, Trade Marketing, and Channel teams to evaluate commercial initiatives, assess financial implications, monitor performance, and ensure alignment with company financial targets and strategic objectives.
Support the development and management of sales and commercial investment forecasts, track trade investments and promotional spending, and conduct variance analysis against budgets and forecasts to enable informed, data-driven decision making.
Contribute to monthly closing activities related to commercial performance, including reviewing commercial accruals and analyzing key financial variances.
Assess the effectiveness and return on investment (ROI) of commercial initiatives, prepare regular financial reports and performance dashboards for management, and continuously improve tools, processes, and reporting frameworks to strengthen commercial planning, tracking, and financial visibility. About You

The ideal candidate holds a university degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field. You have around 5 years of experience in financial or commercial controlling, ideally within FMCG companies. You demonstrate strong analytical and financial modeling skills and have experience supporting commercial teams through budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. Hands-on experience with ERP systems, particularly SAP, is essential, as most pricing maintenance, claims booking, and promotional activations are processed through SAP. Familiarity with the Order-to-Cash cycle is also important due to the close interaction with Sales and Trade Marketing teams. As a proactive and agile professional, you are able to work effectively in fast-paced environments and support data-driven decision making. Your strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, along with proficiency in SAP systems and financial reporting tools, will enable you to make a valuable contribution in this role. Fluency in English is required, and Arabic would be considered an advantage.
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About Ferrero

Ferrero began its journey in the small town of Alba in Piedmont, Italy, in 1946. Today, it is one of the world\'s largest sweet-packaged food companies, with many iconic brands sold in countries all over the world. Find out more about Ferrero at ferrero.com. DE&I at Ferrero

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative, and highly rewarding.

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Location

South Africa
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Job type Full time
Contract type Permanent
Salary type Monthly
Occupation Financial controller
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Ferrero
Ferrero
7 active jobs
Registered 2023-06-02
South Africa

In 1946 Pietro Ferrero invented a cream of hazelnuts and cocoa, meant to be spread on bread, and called it Pasta Gianduja. The product had a great success[citation needed] and therefore Ferrero created the new company to produce and market it. A similar product, sold under the name Nutella since 1964, became popular around the world. In addition to Nutella, Ferrero produces many other products, including the chocolates Ferrero Rocher, Pocket Coffee, Mon Chéri, Giotto, Confetteria Raffaello coconut cream candy, and the tic tac breath mints. A dark chocolate version of the Ferrero Rocher is also available, called the Ferrero Rondnoir, which contains a pearl of dark chocolate in the center instead of a hazelnut, chocolate cream instead of Nutella and cruchy chocolate bits instead of crushed hazelnuts. There is also a coconut version, Confetteria Raffaello, which contains milk cream surrounding an almond and covered with meringue and shredded coconut. The Ferrero Prestige collection is a set of three: Rocher, Rondnoir, and a coconut version called Garden Coco. The Garden Coco candy is similar to Confetteria Raffaello, but has coconut cream instead of milk cream. Ferrero also produces the Kinder product series, including Kinder Surprise (also known as "Kinder Eggs"), Fiesta Ferrero, Kinder Chocolate bars, Kinder Happy Hippo, Kinder Maxi, Kinder Délice and Kinder Bueno. Hanuta chocolate hazelnut filled wafers are also produced by Ferrero.
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