Performance Business Finance Controller

About the role

Job Description

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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