Finance Placement

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Finance Placement

When it comes to finding a great place to work for your industrial placement there are plenty of things to look for: inspirational colleagues, freedom in your job to make a real difference and a shared ethos you can truly believe in. Throw in top perks, a responsive and dynamic environment and unrivalled opportunities to develop you've found something pretty special. You've found Danone.

If you join Danone on a 12-month finance industrial placement in our London Head Offices, you will have the opportunity work with one of our four business units across some of Danone’s world leading brands such as Evian, Activia, Cow&Gate and Nutricia.

The role you take on during your placement will act as an integral, contributing member of the Business Planning Team, with a key purpose to innovate and automate reporting in order to drive efficiency and create value added insights which assist in commercial decision making. Additionally, it seeks to enhance and ensure a robust internal control process exists for all key areas within Business Planning.

If you are curious and like communicating with a wide variety of people, have interest in analysing patterns and trends and you want to work to deliver business objectives, then a finance placement with Danone could be right for you. This position will act as a support function within Business Planning & the wider business, to innovate processes, share information and inform decision making.

What will I be doing?

• Overhead controlling:
• Track & report actuals vs. budget on a monthly basis
• Monitor accruals
• Support the team in month end closing (reporting to Group)
• Participate in forecast & budget process
• Capex, costing/transfer pricing
• Assisting the Business Planning team in key projects (examples include:)
• Automation and refinement of company dashboard and KPI reporting
• Compilation of historical and future promotional calendar
• Internal control process documentation (including system Interface, specifically Essbase)

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for someone with:

• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills; ability to prioritise
• Assertive & confident
• Strong academic achievement
• It would be beneficial to have and interest in, or knowledge of, using systems and programmes
• Fluent in English (written & spoken); (Nice to have: French language skills)
• Proficient with Microsoft (Word, Powerpoint & strong Excel skills)

About Danone

Danone is a FMCG company like no other! We are a world leader in dairy products, bottled water, baby food and medical nutrition with a portfolio of iconic brands including Evian, Volvic, Actimel, Activia, Shape, Cow&Gate and Aptamil.

At Danone we have a pursuit of a great aim: good health through food. Combined with our unique approach to life at work, we seek to bring out the best in people, inspiring the leader in each and every one. Since 2006 we have consistently ranked in the Great Places to Work in the UK (Financial Times) showing that the work ethos, atmosphere, and career development at Danone really is second to none.

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