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. You will ensure full performance transparency and safeguard financial integrity across all reporting and decision processes.
Your support for effective business steering will involve analyzing and interpreting financial data, evaluating strategic and operational alternatives, and recommending the most suitable solutions. You will enhance both actuals and forward-looking analytics by improving existing tools and defining new data analysis and visualization requirements that support financial and commercial transparency, ultimately facilitating high-quality business decisions.
You will act as the line manager for Country Finance Managers in your allocated countries, guiding them to achieve consistent standards and high-quality output. Additionally, you will be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and continuously enhancing global standards, such as guidelines for risk, contract, and business reviews, while ensuring their practical adoption.
Your Responsibilities
- Strategy: Act as a business partner to local and division senior leaders in financial and commercial matters. Actively contribute to yearly Business Review Meetings to enhance local business performance and support global strategy.
- Leadership: Serve as the line manager for Country Finance Managers in your allocated geographies.
- Business Planning: Manage the yearly budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes for allocated countries based on guidelines issued by the global process owner. Translate strategy into actionable business plans and establish ambitious, measurable targets. Evaluate financial implications of decisions, build scenarios, and initiate corrective actions.
- Performance Management and Decision Support: Monitor and analyze financial performance across multiple dimensions and periods, delivering 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, issuing early warnings of significant deviations and driving corrective actions.
- 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, while defining, documenting, communicating, training, and enforcing related practices.
- Hold commercial ownership of the tender phase, responsible for financial, commercial, and tax reviews, shaping contractual agreements, advising on entitlements that protect cash flow and margins, and ensuring full compliance with finance, business, trade compliance, and export control requirements.
- Analyze contract margins against standard transactional business and as sold forecasts while ensuring high-quality, timely reporting.
- Financial Reporting: Ensure on-time provision of high-quality financial data in line with Group accounting and reporting principles (US-GAAP) for allocated countries, supporting the semi-annual assurance letter process respecting Group Controlling guidelines.
- Accounting and Statutory Reporting: Ensure that Country Finance Managers take necessary actions to guarantee timely preparation and filing of accurate statutory financial statements.
- Tax Compliance & Customs: Hold Country Finance Managers accountable for accurately preparing and filing tax returns in line with Group tax policies and local/international tax regulations while respecting local customs regulations.
- Compliance & Audits: Support allocated Finance Managers in proactively coordinating external financial and tax audits, facilitate internal audits and act as Secretary to the local Board of Directors.
- FX and Credit Lines: Manage global commercial value flows, including FX exposure and the derivation of suitable mitigation actions, as well as oversee the credit risk management process within the Service Division, including documentation, training, and monitoring responsibilities.
- Others: Serve as a finance project manager within the Service Division and provide financial and commercial training to staff to promote commercial awareness. Actively participate in the annual Global Finance Week.
Your Background
- University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a globally recognized professional qualification in these fields.
- A minimum of 4 years of leadership experience, ideally internationally and remotely.
- A minimum of 7 years of work experience in commercial management, especially in commercial project controlling (managing multiple medium-sized projects in parallel).
- At least 4 years of work experience in Business Controlling or a similar function.
- Sound knowledge of contractual and legal matters related to customer contracts.
- Experience collaborating and succeeding in an international work environment.
- Service and delivery oriented with a strong business mindset.
- Self-motivated with a strong commitment to quality.
- Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment while adhering to tight deadlines.
- A collaborative, team-oriented personality capable of driving change and fostering cooperation.
- Experience in tool and process implementations.
- High proficiency in MS Excel; experience with BW, SAC, Power BI, Power Query, and S4H is highly welcome.
- Understanding of data structures with the ability to leverage AI and other tools to automate processes.
- Fluent in English.
Your Benefits
- Attractive compensation.
- International and dynamic work environment.
- Flexible Working Model and Remote Work Policy.
- In-house training offerings.
- Office easily reachable due to excellent public transportation links.
- Global parental leave program.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Canteen.
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