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Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About This Role

Commercially and strategically focused on Country performance and opportunities, the Country Finance Lead Germany(CFL), as member of the Local Management team, drives the collaboration across the functions to ensure appropriate financial stewardship of the business and is responsible for managing, controlling, and reporting for the Platform and Scoober entity in Germany.

Providing day to day support to the Country Manager and Local Leadership team, the Country Finance Lead manages the input from the Regional FD and translates them into local target setting process, ensuring that budgets, forecasts, and any other local targets are understood, reflected in the forecasting system, reported back to Group in a timely manner. 

These are some of the key ingredients of the role:

  • Business partnering and FP&A - plays a key role in Business development by establishing strong connections with group/local key stakeholders, in a Business co-pilot attitude. The CFL is asked to manage all the business information, improving and facilitating the decision-making methodology in a data driven approach, with extensive focus in planning and budgeting processes, building and maintaining proactive interactions with all the relevant stakeholders. Supports the Country Manager, local management team and the Regional FD by providing them with weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly performance and financial insights. Responsible for providing monthly business performance commentary and specific analysis to the regional FD. 
  • Leadership - manages the local Finance team, playing an active role in coaching and training, empowering the staff members to think and work in a proactive attitude, in combination with effective planning in line with the Company’s priorities.
  • Accounting & Reporting: oversees any accounting activities performed by the Finance Operation team (GFO), ensuring the timeliness and accuracy of local accounting, controlling and tax activities as well as ensuring local compliance in conjunction with the Financial Controller. Responsible for the local statutory accounts and the audit thereof. Signed off on the local P&L and BL reconciliations. The CFL ensures the provision of necessary information and input to the Group accounting and controlling teams in an accurate and timely manner. 
  • Risk and Control: Owns the Risk register and supports internal audits, working in a matrix with the Financial Controller to achieve this. The CFL monitors all the financial trajectory and promptly flag Risks and Opportunities, building new scenarios and mitigation plans in conjunction with the Business.
  • Systems: Works in partnership with the Group finance systems team to ensure that the ERP, and any other underlying accounting package in use in each territory, is fit for purpose and used appropriately (i.e. the TMS platform, ERP roadmap, Anaplan implementation and Scoober roll-out are successfully executed).

What will you bring to the table

  • A strategic thinker: you see the big picture and the long term goal.
  • Experienced Finance Professional and dynamic self-starter with a strong sense of responsibility and commitment, as well as a positive goal-oriented attitude, always leading by example
  • Credibility to influence and work effectively with Local and Central Teams across the Group: the Candidate is able to build and maintain productive, cross-functional, multi-disciplinary relationships even working with ambiguity within a fast-paced business, reaching high levels of trust, able to negotiate and meet agreed targets
  • Great logical and analytical problem solver, with extremely strong attention to detail. Able to collect many info, from several sources as well as to provide executive summaries based on validated figures, reliable outcomes and accurate predictions. 
  • Delivery-oriented professional, in a never-ending improvement process by focusing on Risks and Opportunities assessment.
  • Able to set clear goals, devise plans, provide appropriate details and meet deadlines with strong capacity in planning and prioritizing activities. 
  • Proven experience in managing a small team, taking care of workload and life-balance, environment and career growth.
  • Passionate about Just Eat Takeaway, our vision and purpose. Embodies our everyday value. 

At JET, this is on the menu:

Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.

Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging

No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colorful selves to work every day.

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