Finance / Business controller

Job description responsibilities and duties

Overhead controlling and reporting

• Responsible for overhead controlling (global R&D, IT costs, Administration)
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders in the preparation of annual budgets, considering business objectives.
• Review and/or prepare reports to monitor overhead costs and hours by unit and function and analyze variances.
• Meet regularly with cost center managers and functional managers to review results, explain deviations, and initiate countermeasures.
• Prepare for the financial part of the function reviews. Identify potential savings for cost reductions.
• Work hand in hand with functional managers and members of the finance departments
• Support and advise business unit controlling and subsidiaries in the preparation of budgets and forecasts.

Process & Tools

• Help build KPI’s, create and automate templates for budget and forecast input and output
• Identify opportunities for improvement with the ability to prioritize issues that add value and
• save time.
• Actively support the improvement of our Tagetik consolidation tool.
• Responsible for the monthly upload of data into Tagetik
• Test data quality, reconcile data across sources and check reports.

Requirements for the employee

Personality requirements and skills

• Education in accounting/finance/controlling/economics (e.g. Degree in business administration at university/university of applied science)
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, problem-solving attitude, ability to work in a fastpaced, dynamic environment.
• Experience in controlling.
• Strong ability to set priorities and take decisions.
• Thorough and precise
• Team player and customer oriented
• Good communication skills at all levels of business hierarchy and proactive attitude
• Experienced in working in an intercultural environment

Competence in working methods

• Good understanding of financial consolidation principles, core financial KPI’s, P&L, balance sheet, cost centers structures and dynamics
• Good knowledge of ERP system IFS or SAP (FI/CO) and Microsoft Office programs
• Excellent knowledge in Excel
• Fluent in written and spoken English. Other languages are a plus.
• Good knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Hands-on mentality, innovative mindset, incentive towards change and improvement.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and complex matrix organizations and to adapt to changing requirements

Employee perks, benefits

• Excellent employment conditions
• Modern infrastructure
• Attractive working place
• Team-oriented working atmosphere
• International Company 

Company on whose behalf the position is being filled

Our client is an International Energy Company.