Senior Controller & Commercial Manager

Job Description

In this role, you will serve as a trusted finance and commercial partner for the Service Division across your assigned geographies and global topic areas. Your mission is to ensure full performance transparency and safeguard financial integrity across all reporting and decision processes.

You will support effective business steering by analyzing and interpreting financial data, evaluating strategic and operational alternatives, and recommending the most suitable solutions. Strengthening both actuals and forward-looking analytics will be key, as you improve existing tools and define new data analysis and visualization requirements that support financial and commercial transparency, facilitating high-quality business decisions.

As the line manager for Country Finance Managers in your allocated countries, you will guide them in achieving consistent standards and high-quality output. You will also be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and consistently enhancing global standards, including guidelines for risk, contract, and business reviews, ensuring their practical adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy: Serve as a business partner to local and division senior leaders in financial and commercial matters. Actively contribute to yearly Business Review Meetings to drive local business performance and support global strategy.
• Leadership: Act as the line manager for Country Finance Managers from allocated geographies.
• Business Planning: Manage the yearly budgeting and quarterly forecasting process for allocated countries, translating strategy into actionable business plans with ambitious, measurable targets. Evaluate financial implications of decisions and initiate corrective actions.
• Performance Management and Decision Support: Monitor and analyze financial performance across multiple dimensions and periods, delivering insights for optimal decision-making. Drive financial transparency and cost structure optimization to maximize value creation.
• Commercial and Risk Management:
  • Ensure that risk and contract reviews in allocated countries are executed in line with global policies and standards, acting as deputy owner of both the global risk review and contract review processes.
  • Hold commercial ownership of the tender phase, advising on financial, commercial, and tax reviews while ensuring compliance with finance and trade requirements.
  • Analyze contract margins against standard transactional business, ensuring high quality and timely reporting.
• Financial Reporting: Ensure the on-time provision of high-quality financial data in line with Group accounting and reporting principles (US-GAAP) for allocated countries.
• Accounting and Statutory Reporting: Ensure timely preparation and filing of accurate statutory financial statements.
• Tax Compliance & Customs: Hold CFMs accountable for accurate tax return preparation and filing in accordance with local and international regulations.
• Compliance & Audits: Support CFMs in coordinating external financial and tax audits and facilitating internal audits.
• FX and Credit Lines: Manage global commercial value flows including FX exposure and credit risk management processes.
• Others: Act as finance project manager within the Service Division and provide financial and commercial training to staff to promote awareness and engagement.

Your Background

• University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or Economics, or a globally recognized professional qualification in these fields.
• A minimum of 4 years of leadership experience, ideally internationally and remotely.
• At least 7 years of experience in commercial management and commercial project controlling.
• A minimum of 4 years of experience in Business Controlling or similar functions.
• Sound knowledge of contractual and legal matters related to customer contracts.
• Experience collaborating in an international work environment with a service-oriented mindset.
• Self-motivated with a strong commitment to quality and excellent organizational skills to handle multiple tasks.
• A collaborative, team-oriented personality with the ability to drive change.
• Experience in tool and process implementations, with high proficiency in MS Excel and familiarity with tools like BW, SAC, Power BI, Power Query, and S4H.
• Fluency in English is required.

Your Benefits

• Attractive compensation.
• International and dynamic work environment.
• Flexible Working Model and Remote Work Policy.
• Training offerings in-house.
• Office located in an area with excellent public transportation links.
• Global parental leave program.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Canteen on premises.

We look forward to receiving your application. Apply online using the form below. Please note that only applications matching the job profile will be considered. If you want to discover more about Accelleron, visit our website at accelleron.com.

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