Job Overview
In this role, you will act 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 plays a crucial role in effective business steering by 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, facilitating high-quality business decisions.
As a 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 consistently enhancing global standards, such as 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 business plans while establishing ambitious and measurable targets.
- Performance Management and Decision Support: Monitor and analyze financial performance across multiple dimensions and periods, delivering insights to support optimal decision-making on both global and local levels.
- Commercial and Risk Management:
- Ensure risk and contract reviews in allocated countries are executed in line with global policies and standards.
- Hold commercial ownership of the tender phase, responsible for financial, commercial, and tax reviews while advising on entitlements that protect cash flow and margins.
- Analyze contract margins against standard transactional business and forecasts while ensuring high-quality and 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.
- Accounting and Statutory Reporting: Ensure timely preparation and filing of accurate statutory financial statements.
- Tax Compliance & Customs: Hold accountability for the accurate preparation and filing of tax returns in accordance with Group tax policies and local regulations.
- Compliance & Audits: Support Country Finance Managers in coordinating external financial and tax audits, facilitating internal audits, and acting as Secretary to the local Board of Directors.
- FX and Credit Lines: Own the global commercial value flows, including FX exposure and credit risk management processes.
- Others: Act as the finance project manager within the Service Division, providing financial and commercial training to promote awareness and participation in the annual Global Finance Week.
Your Background
- University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or Economics, or a globally recognized professional qualification in these fields.
- Minimum 4 years of leadership experience, ideally in international and remote settings.
- Minimum 7 years of work experience in commercial management, particularly in commercial project controlling.
- Minimum 4 years of work experience in Business Controlling or similar roles.
- Sound knowledge of contractual and legal matters related to customer contracts.
- A proven track record of collaboration in an international work environment.
- Strong business mindset with a service/delivery orientation.
- Self-motivated with a commitment to quality.
- Excellent organizational skills to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced setting, while meeting tight deadlines.
- A collaborative, team-oriented personality capable of driving change and fostering cooperation.
- Experience with tool and process implementations.
- High proficiency in MS Excel, as well as familiarity with BW, SAC, Power BI, Power Query, and S4H.
- Understanding of data structures with the ability to leverage AI and other tools for process automation.
- Fluency in English.
Your Benefits
- Attractive compensation.
- International and dynamic work environment.
- Flexible working model and remote work policy.
- In-house training offerings.
- Easily accessible office due to excellent public transportation links.
- Global parental leave program.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Canteen facilities.
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