Function & Legal Entity Controlling Specialist

The opportunity

As a Function & Legal Entity Controlling Analyst/Specialist, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality financial planning, controlling, reporting, analytics, governance, and process excellence services to stakeholders across multiple regions and functions. You will support financial performance management by analyzing financial and operational data, providing actionable insights, enabling informed decision-making, and contributing to standardization, automation, and digital transformation initiatives that drive transparency and business value.

How you'll make an impact

• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closing, forecasting, budgeting, and planning activities.
• Analyze actual results against budgets and forecasts, identifying key drivers, risks, opportunities, and performance trends.
• Prepare management reporting packages, dashboards, business performance analyses, and executive presentations.
• Monitor functional costs, capital expenditures, external spend, and other key financial indicators to ensure effective cost management.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of financial data and reporting deliverables.
• Partner with function controllers, finance leaders, cost center owners, and business stakeholders by providing insightful financial analysis and recommendations.
• Collaborate with regional, country, and global finance teams in a diverse and multicultural environment.
• Support governance reviews, management discussions, and cross-functional business initiatives.
• Transform financial and operational data into meaningful business insights that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Develop and maintain analytical reports, KPIs, management dashboards, and Power BI solutions.
• Perform data validation, reconciliation, master data mapping, and quality assurance activities to improve data reliability.
• Identify performance gaps, trends, risks, and process improvement opportunities through data analysis.
• Execute and support global finance processes from the Bangalore Hub for multiple countries, functions, and legal entities.
• Contribute to process harmonization, standardization, governance, and documentation initiatives across the finance organization.
• Support internal controls, compliance activities, standard operating procedure maintenance, and audit readiness requirements.
• Participate in finance transformation programs and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support digitalization, automation, AI, and advanced analytics initiatives within the finance function.
• Leverage tools such as SAP, Power BI, Microsoft Excel, Power Automate, SharePoint, Microsoft Copilot, and other digital finance solutions.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, streamline, and automate finance reporting, analytics, and operational processes.
• Support the deployment, adoption, and optimization of modern digital finance technologies and solutions.
• Live Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• Professional qualifications such as CA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, MBA, or equivalent certifications will be considered an advantage.
• 2-7 years of experience in Controlling, FP&A, Financial Reporting, Accounting, Shared Services, Business Analytics, Finance Operations, or Finance Transformation.
• Experience working within a multinational or global organization is preferred.
• Strong exposure to budgeting, forecasting, month-end closing, reporting, and performance management processes.
• Solid understanding of financial and accounting principles with mandatory knowledge of IFRS and financial reporting requirements.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft 365 productivity tools.
• Experience with data analytics and reporting tools, particularly Power BI.
• Familiarity with SAP ERP systems, including SAP S/4HANA and Fiori applications, is highly desirable.
• Ability to work with large and complex datasets, perform financial analysis, and translate data into actionable business insights.
• Interest in digital finance, automation, AI-enabled solutions, and continuous process improvement.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-support capabilities.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Self-driven, proactive, and results-oriented approach with a strong attention to detail and quality.
• Demonstrated curiosity for technology, automation, AI, and innovative ways of working.
• Ability to work effectively in a global, multicultural, and matrix organization.
• Strong team-player mindset with a collaborative approach, actively supporting colleagues and contributing to a high-performance culture.
• Fluency in spoken and written English is required; additional language skills are considered an advantage.