Keeping millions of global customers engaged through entertainment 24 hours a day, seven days a week takes the insight, intelligence, and ingenuity of a global team of switched-on media professionals. We are QVC, the world’s biggest broadcast-retailer always on - and on a mission to change the way the world shops. Preparation of monthly management accounts - Prepare monthly management accounts expense for all cost centers in line with Italy and global time table including working with the Accounting team to ensure all costs for the relevant period have been correctly recorded. - Prepares business performance, variance analysis reports & reviews and identifies issues or variances. Conducts monthly and quarterly review actual to budget and re-forecast for future periods. - Regularly meets with assigned Functional area management to review variances, ensure tighter cost control and continuously improve financial reporting and performance measurement. - Produces periodic and ad hoc business unit performance reports and analytics that provide cogent and actionable information for assigned executives and Finance management. - Maintaining models for apportioning company wide costs e.g. pensions, and health insurance, benefits and taxes. - Changes are communicated to all participants and only one current version is maintained at any time - Present budgets to all directors and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) prior to submission to the US. Business Partnering - Partners with business leaders to ensure cost and cost saving targets are met and continually explores ways of improving cost efficiency, including maintaining strong business relationships with global BP&A partners to share knowledge, insights and best practices. - Promotes a culture of budgetary accountability, constantly reviewing and improving the Functional area financial practices to improve transparency, accuracy and cost optimization. - Provides financial analysis, modelling and advisory services to assigned business unit. Identifies opportunities to reduce cost and increase efficiency on expense side, as well as ways to maximize return on investment related to business initiatives. - Maintains Finance review time tables and keeps the Functional area leadership up to date with the Financial Calendar and Financial performance updates. - Identifies need and delivers Finance training to Functional leaders to improve Financial know how. - Provides management with accurate and timely information necessary to make strategic operating decisions. - Provides Subject Matter Expertise for supporting the Functional area with use of financial tools (BPC) and co coordinating system and process changes that affect Functional area to ensure a smooth implementation. - Provides management with accurate and timely information necessary to make strategic operating decisions. - Identifies need and delivers Finance training to Functional leaders to improve Financial know how. - For Technology act as a go between to support Technology BP&A, Accounting and leaders to ensure accurate Accounting in line with budget and Forecasts and use of Financial tools (BPC), systems and processes. Planning & Project Work - Co-ordination and delivery of robust and realistic forecasts & budgets for the assigned Functional area in line with group and local time able - Assist Functional leaders with the preparation and review of budgets and forecasts including variance analysis cost saving initiatives and cost justification. - Preparation and communication of capital budget in line with group timetable - Timely and accurate collation, review and analysis of first draft budget submitted by business areas for review with senior management. - Submission of accurate budget reports in the various formats required by senior management and Group finance Requirements: - Degree from Business Administration, Economics or equivalent - 2 years of experience as Cost Controller; preferable experience in Manpower Costs and budget creation - Excellent level of computer skills including Excel/PowerPoint is a must - English: fluent - Nice to have knowledge of Anaplan and Zucchetti Soft Skills - Strong analytical skills - Attention to detail - Excellent communication and relational skills - Ability to manage multiple tasks - Teamwork - Proactivity - Flexibility We offer: - Being a part of our Finance team and how we work across a variety of markets including, the US, UK, Germany, and Italy. - Open and trusted teamwork in which we value fun along the way. - Competitive benefits that include private medical care, life insurance, benefit cafeteria. - Casual atmosphere and all of that you will experience in our modern office. LI-MG1 INDCORP At QVC we see it like this, you spend a third of your life in work, so work happy* Live better.