Join our dynamic finance team as a Performance Business Finance Controller and be at the forefront of driving strategic financial excellence! We're looking for a passionate finance professional to lead our accounting operations and shape our financial future.
What will you do: Contribute to Cluster strategic planning
- Support general guidelines definition and templates preparation
- Conduct financial simulation
- Support Cluster review and validation
Lead and contribute to Quarterly forecast process
- Support guidelines definition and templates preparation
- Support elaboration and simulation for country/Cluster financials
- Support review and validation
Drive monthly performance analysis and recommendations
- Ensure Orders and Sales are properly classified and reported
- Lead Gross Margin analysis and follow up with plants/factories
- Analyze monthly performance, leveraging standard reporting and analysis produced by Business Finance CoCe/Digital Factory
- Monitor Year to Go reasonability leveraging backlog data, identify and propose action plans.
- Work closely with various Business Finance team for market and pricing evolution
- Prepare for monthly business review
- Work with different stakeholders to deliver results
Support period-end closing
- Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly closing
- Review and validate monthly closing activities performed by Business Finance CoCe
Act as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) towards Business Finance CoCe
- Responsible for managing stakeholders' requests and follow-up towards Business Finance CoCe
Contribute to Global/Cluster standard alignment and continuous improvement of process
- Be Subject Matter Expert for selected topic across Cluster
- Ensure Global standard application within scope of activities
- Assess existing processes to simplify and standardise across Cluster
- Identify and initiate change request on behalf of Clusters, in coordination with Business Finance CoCe
- Support Global/Regional digital transformation initiatives
- Support Data compliance
- Direct and oversee comprehensive accounting operations including accounts payable, cost accounting, and financial reporting
Specific Processes & Deliverables - Strategic planning: Corp. guidelines
- Yearly campaign: Pre/Target, Performa campaigns
- Forecast: Baseline initialisation, Quarterly rolling forecast, follow-up
- Period end closing: Orders and Sales, Margin Analysis, Activity closing
- Reporting & Analysis: Financial reporting, Management reporting, ad-hoc reporting
What qualifications will make you successful? - 5-7 years experience in finance and performance analysis roles
- Proven track record in contributing to operational efficiency and performance in an international context
- Experienced in financial management and performance systems in a Corporate with multi-businesses working with different ERP platforms
- Proven track record in international business transformation and change management projects
- Systems & tools expertise: ERP (SAP/Oracle knowledge), DFL, BFO, EPM, Tableau & other BI tools, Opus, Excel
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Responsibilities
Join our dynamic finance team as a Performance Business Finance Controller and be at the forefront of driving strategic financial excellence! We're looking for a passionate finance professional to lead our accounting operations and shape our financial future.
What will you do: Contribute to Cluster strategic planning
- Support general guidelines definition and templates preparation
- Conduct financial simulation
- Support Cluster review and validation
Lead and contribute to Quarterly forecast process
- Support guidelines definition and templates preparation
- Support elaboration and simulation for country/Cluster financials
- Support review and validation
Drive monthly performance analysis and recommendations
- Ensure Orders and Sales are properly classified and reported
- Lead Gross Margin analysis and follow up with plants/factories
- Analyze monthly performance, leveraging standard reporting and analysis produced by Business Finance CoCe/Digital Factory
- Monitor Year to Go reasonability leveraging backlog data, identify and propose action plans.
- Work closely with various Business Finance team for market and pricing evolution
- Prepare for monthly business review
- Work with different stakeholders to deliver results
Support period-end closing
- Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly closing
- Review and validate monthly closing activities performed by Business Finance CoCe
Act as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) towards Business Finance CoCe
- Responsible for managing stakeholders' requests and follow-up towards Business Finance CoCe
Contribute to Global/Cluster standard alignment and continuous improvement of process
- Be Subject Matter Expert for selected topic across Cluster
- Ensure Global standard application within scope of activities
- Assess existing processes to simplify and standardise across Cluster
- Identify and initiate change request on behalf of Clusters, in coordination with Business Finance CoCe
- Support Global/Regional digital transformation initiatives
- Support Data compliance
- Direct and oversee comprehensive accounting operations including accounts payable, cost accounting, and financial reporting
Specific Processes & Deliverables - Strategic planning: Corp. guidelines
- Yearly campaign: Pre/Target, Performa campaigns
- Forecast: Baseline initialisation, Quarterly rolling forecast, follow-up
- Period end closing: Orders and Sales, Margin Analysis, Activity closing
- Reporting & Analysis: Financial reporting, Management reporting, ad-hoc reporting
