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 primary focus will be to ensure performance transparency and safeguard financial integrity across all reporting and decision-making processes.
Supporting effective business steering, you will analyze and interpret financial data, evaluate strategic and operational alternatives, and recommend the most suitable solutions. You will enhance both retrospective and forward-looking analytics by improving existing tools and defining 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 be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and enhancing global standards, such as guidelines for risk, contract, and business reviews, ensuring their effective implementation.
Responsibilities
- Strategy: Act as a business partner to local and division senior leaders in financial and commercial matters. Contribute actively to yearly Business Review Meetings to drive local business performance and support global strategy.
- Leadership: Serve as the line manager of Country Finance Managers from allocated geographies.
- Business Planning: Manage the yearly budgeting and quarterly forecasting process for allocated countries based on guidelines from the global process owner. Translate strategy into business plans and establish ambitious, measurable targets while evaluating the financial implications of decisions.
- Performance Management and Decision Support: Monitor and analyze financial performance across multiple dimensions and periods, providing insights to support optimal decision-making at both global and local levels. Drive financial transparency, cost structure optimization, productivity improvements, and capital efficiency to maximize value creation.
- Commercial and Risk Management:
- Ensure risk and contract reviews in allocated countries are executed according to global policies and standards. Define, document, communicate, train, and enforce related practices.
- Own the commercial aspects of the tender phase, managing financial, commercial, and tax reviews while ensuring compliance with finance, business, trade compliance, and export control requirements.
- Analyze contract margins and ensure high quality and timely reporting.
- Financial Reporting: Ensure on-time provision of high-quality financial data per Group accounting and reporting principles (US-GAAP).
- Accounting and Statutory Reporting: Guarantee timely preparation and filing of accurate statutory financial statements.
- Tax Compliance & Customs: Ensure accurate preparation and filing of tax returns in line with Group tax policies and local/international regulations.
- Compliance & Audits: Support allocated CFMs in coordinating external financial and tax audits and facilitating internal audits.
- FX and Credit Lines: Manage global commercial value flows, FX exposure, and credit risk management processes.
- Others: Act as finance project manager within the Service Division, provide financial and commercial training, and promote commercial awareness during the annual Global Finance Week.
Your Background
- University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a globally recognized professional qualification in these fields.
- Minimum 4 years of leadership experience, ideally in international and remote contexts.
- At least 7 years of work experience in commercial management and 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.
- Service-oriented with a strong business mindset.
- Self-motivated and committed to quality.
- Excellent organizational skills to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Team-oriented with the ability to drive change and foster cooperation.
- Proficient in MS Excel, with experience using BW, SAC, Power BI, Power Query, and S4H being advantageous.
- Understanding of data structures and the ability to leverage AI and other tools to automate processes.
- Fluency in English.
Your Benefits
- Attractive compensation package.
- International and dynamic work environment.
- Flexible Working Model and Remote Work Policy.
- Comprehensive in-house training offerings.
- Convenient office location with excellent public transportation links.
- Global parental leave program.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Canteen facilities.
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