Business Controller - Midocean
The promotional product market in Europe is changing rapidly: The demand is evolving boldly and fast. With over 50 years of experience, Midocean Brands has become one of the leading wholesalers in the European premiums and business gift market. Due to their continued success and joining forces with SOLO Group, Midocean brands is actively investing in indepth analytics and controls to support & facilitate growth to the next level. This newly created role of Business Controller will play a crucial role to enable and unlock the further opportunities for ongoing growth and to strengthen the controlling foundation.
You will be part of a close-knit finance team. Supporting the Senior Business Controller, you will rotate responsibilities over time to develop a broader skill set and collaborate on strategic projects together. Together you support the business in creating valuable insights and support strategic decision making for the future growth of the organization. You are a valued finance business partner for various internal- and external stakeholders of Midocean, including the CFO, Manager Accounting & Tax, regional accounting & controlling teams and the BI team.
By providing insightful analysis, you help chart the course of the business's growth and ensure its standing as a leader in the industry. As the Business Controller you manage, further set up and optimize the periodic management reporting. You give enhanced insights into the Financial Performance, analyzing the Operational & Commercial core KPI’s. You generate in-depth analyses on various cross sections of the business, analyzing the performance per region, per client, and even per product category. You also review the logistical costs per region and per distribution partner to better map the operational costs. You report these actuals and analysis of trends in periodic results. You continuously update and identify specific improvement opportunities for the full information structure and dashboards.
Following up on your renewed performance reviews, you signal how these new insights play a role in the planning and control cycle and what actionable steps should be taken. You identify trends and translate these into short and long term financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, resource management and multiyear financial plans. You are involved in the periodic business reviews, coordinate the annual budget cycle, the periodic (re)forecasting & latest estimates.
Good to know
Having broad exposure and insights into the business and operations, management will rely on you for several ad hoc analyses, including preparing and reviewing business cases and investment decisions. Think about how a certain printing technique is performing compared to others. Business cases could also be a new factory or printing site, various CAPEX investments, new business proposals or competitor analysis. Midocean is also exploring innovative workflows making use of data analytics and marketing intelligence. As finance business partner, you can definitely add a lot of value and give insightful input.
Who are you?
As the Business Controller, you possess the experience, insight, and eagerness to fully grasp the complexity of the industry and add value to the business. You are someone who can combine first-class analytical skills with a creative and problem-solving mindset. You are proactive, analytical, and ambitious, with a preference for working in a fast-growing, international business.
“Midocean is a dynamic, fast-paced, multicultural environment that requires everyone to operate with a high degree of flexibility and autonomy. We are looking for somebody who is eager to dive into our business model, truly understand the 'game,' and is not afraid to ask questions and share their suggestions. You can make a direct impact on the performance of the business by supporting, advising, and proactively challenging your stakeholders. Above all, you are a team player with a sense of humor, who takes ownership and is eager to help continuously drive the business forward.”
- Bachelor or Master degree in Finance, Business Economics or Accountancy;
- Relevant work experience (4+ years) within a production or wholesale organization, ideally characterized by rapid growth and change, and with high volumes;
- (Strong) knowledge of SAP, Excel and preferably Business Intelligence tooling (PowerBI);
- Strong communicator in English; able to build and maintain relations on different levels both internally and externally;
- Ambition, Good communication, show initiative, and pragmatic mindset.
With over 50 years of experience midocean has become one of the leading wholesalers in the European premiums and business gift market. As multi-category specialist and full-service supplier, midocean enables companies to create brand awareness by delivering the perfect personalized gift in the most cost-effective, fastest and sustainable way. They drive continuous innovation and unbeatable turnaround times, enhancing the value being added in their supply chain. By doing so, midocean aims to innovate the industry of promotional items. They offer a highly diversified product assortment with over 2000 (!) customizable items that is refreshed continuously following the latest trends and demands of the market.
With regional sales offices in the Netherlands (headquarters), Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Hungary and Sweden and their own purchasing office in Hong Kong, midocean has a vast and international outreach. To guarantee perfect stock availability and fast delivery and to facilitate the accelerating growth of the company, midocean has opened a new 40.000m2 logistics and printing facility. This new facility allows midocean to maintain its high service levels towards their customers. To keep delivering with the highest speed, they also installed many new cutting-edge technology printing machines that are custom built and tailored to specific printing requirements.
For several years already, the promotional product market in Europe is changing rapidly. The demand is evolving boldly and fast. To better address the evolution in the promotional market and resellers requirement for one stop shop experience, midocean engaged in a commercial cooperation with SOLO Group in 2020. Together, they explored the compatibility of both companies when offering a selection of the SOLO Group portfolio. This cooperation proved to be very successful, with a positive halo effect towards the entire distribution network of SOLO Group. Moreover, both companies appeared a perfect fit in terms of geography, operational set-up and company value. Because of this, as of 2022, midocean became a valued label within SOLO Group!
Together, they desire to expand significantly. The template of the current operations will be mirrored, only on a significantly larger scale. By doing so, midocean does not only condition its own growth ambition. It anticipates on the intention to expand its own product portfolio and widening of the textile assortment that will be offered through SOLO Group’s portfolio.
Next to strong organic growth, midocean also dedicate themselves to comply to the highest environmental and sustainability standards of today. Using both natural and recycled materials, sustainable printing operations, and a keen eye on social responsibility and working conditions. All of which are elaborated in their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).
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