CP&O Front Office Specialist

The opportunity:

Deliver top-notch financial planning and controlling services by analyzing metrics, identifying trends and issues, communicating insights, and recommending actions to enhance financial performance.

How you'll make an impact:

• Serve as the primary subject-matter expert on controlling topics such as cost control, R&D controlling
• Take ownership for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities, resolving complex issues and ensuring proper accounting treatment within SAP and related systems.
• Ensure high data integrity through advanced validation, reconciliations, and structured problem-solving.
• Perform detailed operational analyses including cost trends, project variances, accrual logic, internal orders.
• Provide clear, data-based explanations to managers to support operational decision-making (not strategic advisory).
• Prepare and validate financial statements, internal reports, ensuring compliance with internal controls and external regulations.
• Act as a trusted operational point of contact for SAP-related questions (FICO, PS, MM, SD), transactional accuracy, posting logic, and reporting procedures.
• Coordinate with functions such as project execution, supply chain, procurement, and shared services to resolve operational finance issues and ensure alignment with standards.
• Utilize advanced skills in SAP HANA/ECC, ERP systems, BI tools, and MS Office to drive efficient reporting and data management.
• Lead or contribute to operational improvement initiatives, including: process standardization, automation of reporting steps, enhancing accuracy and timeliness of closing activities, optimization of SAP master data or posting processes
• Actively identify and escalate process gaps, proposing operational improvements with clear, practical solutions.
• Model Hitachi Energy's values of Safety, Integrity, and Responsibility in all financial processes.
• Ensure strict compliance with internal controls, documentation requirements, and approved procedures.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

• Living Hitachi Energy's core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Should have Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or similar
• Must have 5 - 8 years of experience in Controlling, FP&A, or Financial Operations in a multinational environment.
• Strong SAP HANA skills.
• Strong expertise in ERP-based controlling processes, financial closing, and complex operational reporting.
• Proven ability to independently handle complex tasks and lead process execution with minimal supervision.
• Experience guiding or reviewing the work of other finance professionals.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and a high commitment to data accuracy.
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).
• Strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and discipline in delivering high-quality outputs.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.