Manager, Workforce Planning & Controlling (m/f/d)

Employment Contract | Full-time | Hybrid | Helsinki, Finland We’re looking for Manager, Workforce Planning & Controlling for Amer Sports’ office in Helsinki. Amer Sports is a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, powered by a community of people who share a passion for authenticity, impact, and excellence. We bring together leading brands, talented teams, and a culture built on collaboration. If you’re looking for an environment where you can make an impact and grow your career, we invite you to explore the opportunity below. 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 What’s in it for you At Amer Sports, you’ll be part of a global community of people who care about what they do and how they do it. Across our teams and brands, we are driven by ambition, collaboration, and a shared purpose of elevating the world through sport. - Global collaboration: Work with diverse, international teams and collaborate across brands, functions, and markets, learning from different perspectives along the way. - Access to a global network of leading brands: Work within a global collective of iconic sports and outdoor brands, gaining exposure to different businesses, perspectives, and opportunities across Amer Sports. - We’re in the game together: Join a culture built on trust, support, and shared responsibility, where progress is achieved together and success is celebrated as a team. - Purpose‑driven environment: Be part of work that supports healthier, more active lives through our iconic sports and outdoor brands. - Small teams, real impact: Contribute in small, trusted teams within a global company, where your ideas matter and your work can create real impact. - Excellence in how we work: Join an environment where quality, innovation, and continuous improvement matter, and where people are encouraged to raise the bar in how work is done. - Ambitious career development: Develop your skills through meaningful work, new challenges, and collaboration with experienced colleagues. - Modern technologies and ways of working: Be part of teams that work with modern technologies and continuously evolve how we build, operate, and improve our digital solutions. - Employee product benefits: Enjoy access to employee discounts on quality products from our iconic brands. - HR: As a member of our HR team, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in multiple global projects, experience continuous learning, and take pride in working with the world’s best sporting goods brands in our dynamic, ever-evolving environment. What to expect from the recruitment process - CV screening: Every CV is reviewed by a human. - Phone screening: A conversation with Amer Sports’ HR manager to discuss the role, our organization, and your expectations. - Interviews: Usually 2–4 rounds, including interviews with the hiring manager and prospective team. - Case studies or assessments: Your role may require practical tests, such as presentations or case studies. - Feedback and decision: We aim to provide feedback throughout the process. Interested? Please submit your application via the application form latest on 30.09.26. CVs sent by email will not be considered or processed. If you have any questions or need clarification at any stage of the application process or during your journey with us, please don't hesitate to reach out to talentacquisition@amersports.com (HR). Apply and join us in striving for excellence at each step! #LI-SS1