Job description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Business
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Closely work with the Financial shared service centers and the entities in the markets
  • Together with the SSC prepare and present annual Balance sheet review meetings and contribute to the annual report
• Corporate Governance:
  • Contribute to Internal Controls and Risk Management exercises for non-functional elements.
  • Audits: Secure appropriate financial participation in local internal and external audits
  • Coordinate and partially answer requests on statistic bureaus
  • Setting-up commercial handbook together with legal to ensure clear authorizations/approval rights
• Organization:
  • Complete analysis and own concept on Financial Controlling in our functional Finance organization.
  • Start with B&W in Europe and consider a possible later expansion to D&L, MENA and APAC
  • Establish and develop Financial Controlling team and transition tasks from the markets to the centrally led organization
  • Establish, train and manage Finance Officer Community
  • Support the transition from non-finance related tasks of current Finance Directors to the appropriate function.
  • Drive projects on legal entity simplification and adjustments to our corporate legal entity setup
• People Management and Organizational Development:
  • Lead a team of five associates, developing their functional and soft skills. Be an integral part of our functional talent development program.
  • Identify ways to become more effective and efficient in our group wide controlling activities.