Financial Analyst

We Make Life More Rewarding and Dignified

Location: Munich BU

Department: Finance

Summary

You love turning numbers into clear, compelling stories that drive better decisions. As a Finance Business Partner and challenger, you support budgeting, forecasting, and performance management, while questioning assumptions and providing clear, actionable recommendations.

Working closely with local and international stakeholders across Sales and Marketing, you actively bring financial perspectives into decision-making and provide transparency around risks and opportunities.

The Financial Analyst provides business and financial analytical support and recommendations to the Commercial Business Teams across strategic planning, annual operating planning, pricing and product flow, and business partnership activities. The role collaborates globally and locally with functions including Business Units, Marketing, Market Access, Product Development, Finance/Pricing, Sales, Operations, and Legal to enable informed decision-making.

Responsibilities

Planning & Forecasting

You support key planning cycles, including the Annual Plan, Mid-Year Review, and in-year projections (e.g., Sales and OPEX).

You perform scenario planning and what-if analyses, developing and evaluating scenarios (e.g., best-case, base-case, and worst-case), assessing financial impacts at product and portfolio level, and preparing insights for stakeholder reviews and decision-making.

You actively challenge existing planning assumptions and methodologies, partnering with the business to continuously enhance and future-proof planning and forecasting approaches.

Month-End Close & Performance Management

You support the month-end close process (e.g., journal inputs and accrual requests), conduct variance analyses, reconcile results, and provide concise commentary and KPI dashboards.

You prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports, highlighting trends, key performance drivers, and actionable recommendations.

You translate performance variances into meaningful business implications and challenge existing performance management approaches where appropriate.

Reporting, Automation & Projects

You develop and automate standard and ad hoc reports using tools such as Excel, Power BI, and Power Query, adapting methodologies as needed within established guidelines.

You contribute to cross-functional and global projects, supporting system enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives, including upgrades, design changes, data quality improvements, and efficiency gains.

You approach reporting from a business perspective and help drive the transition from traditional reporting towards genuine decision support.

Value Creation & Business Partnering

You identify opportunities for optimization, improve forecast accuracy, and strengthen financial controls.

You communicate in a clear, concise, and audience-appropriate manner, including when engaging with senior stakeholders.

You actively drive the definition and continuous enhancement of relevant KPIs in close collaboration with stakeholders, ensuring their effectiveness and establishing them as key management tools for informed decision-making.

Education & Work Preferences

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Business Administration, Finance/Controlling, or a related field, combined with 2–5 years of relevant professional experience.

Advanced Excel skills, as well as hands-on experience with Power BI and Power Query, including data modeling, reporting, and process automation.

Knowledge of SAP and BPC is considered an advantage.

Strong analytical thinking, a high level of accuracy, a hands-on mindset, a strong sense of ownership, and the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

A collaborative team-player mindset and the confidence to engage with stakeholders at different levels in both German and English.

A strong drive to shape and improve, intellectual curiosity, and the ambition not only to execute processes correctly, but also to work closely with Finance and business teams to identify and advance the most impactful priorities.

Ready to take ownership and thrive in a dynamic environment? We look forward to receiving your application, including your CV and supporting documents, along with your salary expectations and earliest possible start date.

About Hollister Incorporated

Hollister Incorporated is an independent, employee-owned company that develops, manufactures and markets healthcare products worldwide. The company spearheads the advancement of innovative products for ostomy care, continence care and critical care, and also creates educational support materials for patients and healthcare professionals. Headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, Hollister has manufacturing and distribution centers on three continents and sells in nearly 80 countries. Hollister is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Firm of John Dickinson Schneider, Inc., and is guided both by its Mission to make life more rewarding and dignified for people who use our products and services, as well as its Vision to grow and prosper as an independent, employee-owned company, and in the process, to become better human beings.

The expected base salary for this position is EUR 47,000 – EUR 74,000 gross per year. The actual salary will vary depending on the candidate’s education, experience, skills, and qualifications.

EOE Statement

Job Req ID: 35874