Job Description

Position:

Business Analyst EMEA

For more than 85 years, Arrow has guided innovation forward for more than 220,000 of the world’s leading technology manufacturers and service providers Through a relentless focus on capturing emerging trends, developing deep relationships with top suppliers, and working collaboratively with customers to build solutions that solve the challenges of tomorrow. Arrow’s Intelligent Solutions business enables our customers to traverse the entire product lifecycle with strategic velocity — speeding innovation and accelerating product lifecycles.

Business Analyst EMEA

What You Are be doing:

• Financial planning & forecasting: Build and maintain forecasts, budgets, and long-range plans; analyze variances vs. plan, prior year, and latest outlook.
• Business performance analysis: Provide margin, pricing, volume, mix, and cost-to-serve analysis; identify risks/opportunities and recommend actions.
• Month-end support & reporting: Support close activities (accruals, reclasses, review of results) and deliver recurring management reports and dashboards.
• Management presentations: Prepare clear, decision-oriented materials for leadership (commentary, bridge analyses, KPIs, and key drivers).
• Data integrity & controls: Ensure data accuracy across ERP/reporting tools; maintain documentation and follow SOX/internal control expectations.
• Process improvement: Streamline reporting and planning processes (automation, standard templates, self-service reporting) to improve speed and quality.
• Stakeholder partnering: Act as a finance business partner to operational teams; challenge assumptions and support strategic initiatives.
• Ad hoc analysis: Support business cases, investment analyses, and special projects (e.g., cost reductions, profitability improvement, working capital).

What we are looking for:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience: 3+ years in financial analysis, FP&A, or controllership in a matrixed organization.
• Technical skills: Advanced Excel; experience with ERP (e.g., Oracle) and BI/reporting tools (Power BI/Tableau or similar).
• Financial acumen: Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet linkages, accrual concepts, and variance/driver analysis.
• Communication: Ability to translate complex data into clear narratives for non-finance partners and leaders. Business fluency in Italian and English are mandatory.
• Work style: Detail-oriented, deadlines-driven, proactive, and comfortable working with ambiguity.

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Arrow is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing an accessible, inclusive, open and welcoming workplace environment for people with different abilities, backgrounds, lifestyles, sexual orientation, gender identity, needs and expectations, helping all individuals to make the most of their professional potential. We honor our commitments under articles 1 and 18 of Law No. 68/1999 and give special consideration to candidates in protected categories.

Arrow è un datore di lavoro che garantisce le pari opportunità. Ci impegniamo a fornire un ambiente di lavoro accessibile, inclusivo, aperto e accogliente per persone con diverse abilità, background, stili di vita, orientamento sessuale, identità di genere, esigenze e aspettative, aiutando tutti gli individui a sfruttare al meglio il loro potenziale professionale. Onoriamo i nostri impegni ai sensi degli articoli 1 e 18 della legge n. 68/1999 e diamo particolare considerazione ai candidati delle categorie protette.

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Location:

IT-Milan, Italy (Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli)

Time Type:

Full time

Job Category:

Accounting/Finance