Assistant Manager

Metro Global Solution Center (MGSC) is internal solution partner for METRO, a €29.8 Billion international wholesaler with operations in 31 countries through 661 stores & a team of 93,000 people globally. Metro operates in a further 10 countries with its Food Service Distribution (FSD) business and it is thus active in a total of 34 countries.

MGSC, location wise is present in Pune (India), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland). We provide IT & Business operations support to 31 countries, speak 24+ languages and process over 18,000 transactions a day. We are setting tomorrow's standards for customer focus, digital solutions, and sustainable business models. For over 10 years, we have been providing services and solutions from our two locations in Pune and Szczecin. This has allowed us to gain extensive experience in how we can best serve our internal customers with high quality and passion. We believe that we can add value, drive efficiency, and satisfy our customers.

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Headquarters: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Type: Privately Held

Inception:  2011

• Stakeholder engagement & relationship management including 

stakeholder visits

• Set-up, review & baseline business & operational KPI's

• Has P&L responsibility & Cost leadership

• Out of the above 5+ years of experience in driving organization 

change management and process transformation including digital

• Experience in coaching and mentoring leadership teams - Build team 

capabilities, individual developments & create career path

• Experience in supporting in large strategic impact projects

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to interact 

effectively with all levels of management 

• Ability to prioritize, manage time effectively, escalate / resolve issues 

appropriately

Managerial 

Requirements

Executive presence, Story-telling, Leadership skills, C-Level 

communication, transformation, Conflict management, Stakeholder 

management & visits, Change management, Project management, 

Team management, AI & Digital, AGILE ways of working

Required

Technical 

Competencies

• SAP, MicroStrategy, Tagetik, Looker, Power BI & other forecasting, 

budgeting and reporting tools within industry

• MS Office Suite/ Teams

Required

Functional skills

• Drive culture and mind set change within teams

• Part of leadership team in driving Organization strategy & 

Transformation

• Lead finance target picture roadmap realization for FPNA 

(Controlling), Process and managing transition & projects, adhering to

project milestones & timelines

• Monitor, track and control project outcomes to resolve issues, 

conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables

• Experience in leading teams in specific processes like Forecasting, 

budgeting, strategic planning and monitoring (value creation plans), 

reporting and analysis, Management financial performance overview 

and support management decision.

• Responsible for presenting financial performance updates at all 

relevant meetings and reporting on all the key metrics of 

performance;

• Ensure that key performance reporting is accessible, user focused, 

and action orientated;

• Ensure complying with all corporate governance (Capex approval, 

budget etc.) and identifying and escalating risk when required

• Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgeting and 

overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting in compliance and 

regulatory guidelines and IFRS.

• Responsible for the forecast and reporting of Free Cash Flow, being 

able to analyze and propose corrective actions;

• Delivering value to countries through business case realization & 

improving customer experience (NPS)

• Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall 

program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of 

strategic objectives

• Develop and deliver proposals for new process transitions and 

presentations to various audiences, including GBS Leadership team, 

sponsors, CFOs and key stakeholders

• Background in Lean Six Sigma is a plus

Job Description

Job Requirements

• IFRS Certification is a plus

• Exposure to IT industry / running IT projects (Automation / ERP 

implementation) is a plus

• International Exposure (Min 6 months) is a plus

• Experience in using big databases

• Understand the interdependencies between margin, stock and 

profitability in a wholesales environment and improve the integrity of 

information for decision making

• Understand the general logic of stock formula on all main price levels 

and improve the data quality for METRO

• Learn how to use the already developed solutions and finetune them 

further

• Develop new ideas and define development tasks to improve the data 

integrity reports and solutions. Follow up the tasks of developers in 

daily / weekly data integrity meetings

• Develop concepts for improving data integrity within and between IT 

applications. Follow up issues reported to 8 source and target 

applications (goods management systems for stores and logistic 

platforms, SAP and BI) in weekly / biweekly meetings

• Support colleagues in 20 countries by providing 4-5 daily / weekly / 

monthly data integrity reports (quality assured by you) and analyse 

the results to suggest the necessary actions for improving data 

quality both for financial reporting and operational steering world wide

• Subject matter expert for buying price implementation in different 

applications like in the future-oriented M|Stock Evaluation solution 

(the new transactional database saved in stock formula logic)

Behavioral 

Competencies

• Proactive and Solution oriented attitude

• Leading by example

• Integrity and honesty first approach

• Result self-driven and high motivation

• Excellent negotiation and communication skills

• Cost Leadership

• AI & Digital

• Open to travel & Hybrid working

• Strategical thinking and very efficient analytical skills

• Passionate work

• Self-checking and quality assurance attitude whatever you do

• Managerial skills to motivate and lead team members or developer

Qualified Accountant (CA) or

Master's Degree in Business Administration, Finance (reputed 

institute)

Preference for candidates with consumer goods industry experience

Preferred Work 

Experience

• 15 years+ of experience in leading FPNA (Controlling) End-to-End 

Process – Transformation, Transition, Service delivery, Digitization.

• Experience in people leadership & leading large teams with FPA

processes (current 50+ FTEs) and driving results

• Experience in driving FPA process transformation including but not 

limited to process improvements, standardization, best practices and 

bench marking

Job Description

Job Requirements

• Stakeholder engagement & relationship management including 

stakeholder visits

• Set-up, review & baseline business & operational KPI's

• Has P&L responsibility & Cost leadership

• Out of the above 5+ years of experience in driving organization 

change management and process transformation including digital

• Experience in coaching and mentoring leadership teams - Build team 

capabilities, individual developments & create career path

• Experience in supporting in large strategic impact projects

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to interact 

effectively with all levels of management 

• Ability to prioritize, manage time effectively, escalate / resolve issues 

appropriately

 

Managerial 

Requirements

Executive presence, Story-telling, Leadership skills, C-Level 

communication, transformation, Conflict management, Stakeholder 

management & visits, Change management, Project management, 

Team management, AI & Digital, AGILE ways of working

Required

Technical 

Competencies

• SAP, MicroStrategy, Tagetik, Looker, Power BI & other forecasting, 

budgeting and reporting tools within industry

• MS Office Suite/ Teams

Required

Functional skills

• Drive culture and mind set change within teams

• Part of leadership team in driving Organization strategy & 

Transformation

• Lead finance target picture roadmap realization for FPNA 

(Controlling), Process and managing transition & projects, adhering to

project milestones & timelines

• Monitor, track and control project outcomes to resolve issues, 

conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables

• Experience in leading teams in specific processes like Forecasting, 

budgeting, strategic planning and monitoring (value creation plans), 

reporting and analysis, Management financial performance overview 

and support management decision.

• Responsible for presenting financial performance updates at all 

relevant meetings and reporting on all the key metrics of 

performance;

• Ensure that key performance reporting is accessible, user focused, 

and action orientated;

• Ensure complying with all corporate governance (Capex approval, 

budget etc.) and identifying and escalating risk when required

• Managing the processes for financial forecasting and budgeting and 

overseeing the preparation of all financial reporting in compliance and 

regulatory guidelines and IFRS.

• Responsible for the forecast and reporting of Free Cash Flow, being 

able to analyze and propose corrective actions;

• Delivering value to countries through business case realization & 

improving customer experience (NPS)

• Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall 

program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of 

strategic objectives

• Develop and deliver proposals for new process transitions and 

presentations to various audiences, including GBS Leadership team, 

sponsors, CFOs and key stakeholders

• Background in Lean Six Sigma is a plus