Manager, Workforce Planning & Controlling

As Manager, Workforce Planning & Controlling, you will drive the end-to-end planning cycle and analytics of our workforce resources and related personnel costs, running it with the discipline of a project and the rigor of a financial controller.

Reporting directly to the Global Practice Lead, Performance, Rewards, Workforce Planning & People Analytics, this role sits at the intersection of HR, Finance, and business leadership. You will join a small, fast-paced team in a growing global organization, partnering with stakeholders across our Brands, Regions, and Group Functions. Your work will have a direct and measurable impact on workforce, financial, and business decisions worldwide.

What you will be doing:
Drive the group-wide workforce planning cadence, including long-range planning, annual business planning, and quarterly forecasting. Manage each cycle as a structured project with clearly defined milestones, owners, dependencies, and deliverables, while ensuring HR and Finance planners stay aligned with timelines across all Brands, Regions, and Group Functions.
Design and maintain standardized planning templates, reporting packs, and tools used by HR and Finance planners globally, ensuring consistency, usability, and alignment with Finance reporting standards.
Ensure the accuracy and completeness of global workforce plans by establishing and monitoring planning policies, forecast timelines, data quality standards, access controls, data handling practices, and audit trails aligned with Amer Sports data governance requirements.
Coordinate and align workforce planning communities by translating planning targets and assumptions into clear direction for planners, influencing local finance controllers and stakeholders without direct authority, and proactively identifying risks and misalignments before they impact delivery.
Drive continuous improvement of workforce planning processes and the planner experience in OneStream by identifying friction points, implementing enhancements, and maintaining clear playbooks and guidance materials.
Own global workforce statistics reporting, delivering accurate and timely workforce and personnel cost reports for leadership, Finance, and business stakeholders. Establish centralized planning assumptions, monitor data quality, and perform variance analysis between plans and actual results.
Partner closely with the OneStream system administration team to translate process requirements into system enhancements, ensuring the planning platform evolves alongside business needs and that technical constraints are addressed proactively.
Support strategic initiatives and analyses, including driver-based scenario modeling for workforce and related people costs, variance analysis, and additional HR projects as needed.

What you need to succeed:
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
3-5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial controlling, people cost analytics or a related function, with demonstrated experience driving complex, multi-stakeholder planning cycles.
Experience with workforce planning or headcount as a financial cost driver within an FP&A or controlling context.
Strong project management skills with the ability to run a recurring planning cycle as a structured project — managing timelines, escalating risks, and holding distributed stakeholders accountable without direct authority. Formal project management training or certification a plus
Demonstrated program and stakeholder management skills to drive planning initiatives; ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Strong financial modelling skills, including driver-based headcount and people cost models, variance analysis, and scenario planning.
Strong data skills and reporting instincts — able to turn raw people data into clean, structured, decision-ready outputs; experienced in building reports and dashboards that non-specialist audiences can act on.
Comfortable operating in a process that is still maturing — able to build structure where it doesn’t yet exist, iterate quickly, and bring others along through change.
Advanced Excel proficiency including financial modelling; experience with financial planning systems (OneStream strongly preferred) and familiarity with reporting or BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
Ability to take ownership and strive for excellence in how work is planned, executed, and improved
A pragmatic, curious approach to challenges with a focus on meaningful impact
Openness to working in an international environment and learning from different perspectives
Motivation to contribute to work that supports healthier, more active lives