Summary of Job Description:
The Lead of Group Financial Controlling is a key role to help us transition from a regional/local full-finance scope to a distributed functional organization. The group responsible for ensuring the integrity of our Legal entity Financial Controlling.
Job description:
Key Responsibilities:
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Business
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Financial Reporting tasks: Cross-check monthly legal entity results with a special focus on “non-functional” cost elements like Admin Overheads and other expenses/income, provide comments and insights on unusual trends to respective divisional P&L management, monitoring of appropriate equity levels
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Financial Planning: Distribute Top-down plan to legal entities for transfer pricing and impairment purposes incl. upload into central systems, Provide input to the direct cash forecasting, Impairment testing
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Safeguard proper processing of intercompany relationships: Service Level Agreements, intercompany pricing according to an entity’s role in the V&B business setup, triggering intercompany charging/financing
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Closely work with the Financial shared service centers and the entities in the markets
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Together with the SSC prepare and present annual Balance sheet review meetings and contribute to the annual report
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Corporate Governance:
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Contribute to Internal Controls and Risk Management exercises for non-functional elements.
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Audits: Secure appropriate financial participation in local internal and external audits
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Coordinate and partially answer requests on statistic bureaus
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Setting-up commercial handbook together with legal to ensure clear authorizations/approval rights
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Organization:
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Complete analysis and own concept on Financial Controlling in our functional Finance organization.
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Start with B&W in Europe and consider a possible later expansion to D&L, MENA and APAC
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Establish and develop Financial Controlling team and transition tasks from the markets to the centrally led organization
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Establish, train and manage Finance Officer Community
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Support the transition from non-finance related tasks of current Finance Directors to the appropriate function.
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Drive projects on legal entity simplification and adjustments to our corporate legal entity setup
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People Management and Organizational Development:
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Lead a team of five associates, developing their functional and soft skills. Be an integral part of our functional talent development program.
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Identify ways to become more effective and efficient in our group wide controlling activities.
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Contribute in systems projects (e.g. S/4HANA) on core finance processes.
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Secure financial data integrity on structure/master data changes (e.g. profit center hierarchy changes)
