Senior Lead - Product Finance (9-month maternity cover)
Zurich
At a Glance:
One of the fastest-growing premium sportswear brands is seeking a Product Controller to join the fast-paced Product & Commercial Finance team. With your business partnering experience and your top-notch analytical skills, your mission is to be the financial navigator and partner to our industry-leading product and commercial teams, creating value by providing insights and supporting decision making. Critical to the success of this role is a collaborative and curious mindset, a desire to drive On’s growth journey and an ability to understand your audience and communicate your message clearly.
Please note this is a temporary 9-month contract, with a target start date on August 1,2026.
Your Team:
We are the advanced navigators at On. We partner across functions to steer the business by analyzing the past and predicting the future. We specialize in accurate planning, relevant analysis and clear and simple reporting to drive impactful actions. We work across On, with every team, to gain insights into the business from different perspectives, and to ensure that all of our numbers are accurate and understood. If you are passionate about analytics, excited about understanding what makes On the fastest-growing running brand in the world, and are eager to work cross-functionally to deliver insights and analytics - come and join us!
Your Mission:
- Be the financial navigator to our Commercial & Product Strategy teams and product creation and vertical leads to drive On’s Apparel & Accessories portfolio strategy through the utilization of insights and trends to support the development of specific product strategies
- Be the financial business partner for Lifestyle - Product Strategy team by creating reports, optimizing dashboards, delivering insights, facilitating this way decision making and transparency with clear and action-oriented insights on product performance and KPI measurement to ensure accountability
- Proactively drive the Go To Market process through steering financial planning goals, aligned to On’s long-term financial ambition by partnering with global and regional merchandising and Integrated Business Planning teams
- Lead seasonal target setting with the Product Strategy team in line with global financial ambitions
- Deliver clear messaging regarding sales aspirations and margin targets to the Product and Costing Boards during Line Reviews
- Collaborate with Product Operations team to drive integration of information between product system, reporting and planning tools
- Collaborate with the Cost Analytics team to provide Product Managers and Vertical Leads with regular reporting including SKU efficiency reporting and margin/FOB support.
Your Story:
- 7-10 years experience in Controlling, FP&A or Business Partnering in an agile, high-growth environment
- Experience / Understanding of product lifecycle and product strategy highly preferred
- Education in the field of Business Administration or Finance
- Exceptional analytical skills, the ability to combine classical metrics with innovative storytelling, and a philosophy of letting data find a voice
- Cross-functional team-worker, able to demystify data and provide the support to the business to deliver the wow
- Excellent English skills, and possessing a work permit for Switzerland
- Experience with finance, analytics and data technologies such as Microsoft Dynamics, Looker and Anaplan
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