Business Controller Europe Phillips

at  TP Vision

JOB FEATURES

Job Category
Mid-Senior level
About TPV Technology
TPV Technology is an internationally-renowned PC monitor, TV and Digital Signage Displays manufacturer. TPV serves as an original design manufacturer for some of the best-known TV , PC and Digital Signage Displays brands in the industry and distributes its products worldwide under its own brands AOC and Envision. In addition, the company designs, produces and sells Philips-branded monitors, TV’s and AVA products, Digital Signage Displays and mobile phones through a license agreement with Philips via its subsidiaries TP Vision and MMD. As an example, the company brings high-quality TV sets to the market: smart and easy to use with sophisticated styling. TPV believes in creating products that touch the human senses and are within reach of all consumers in the markets they operate in. As a leader in the hotel industry, their hospitality TV division serves most the world’s major international and national hotel groups, as well as individual hotels, hospitals, cruises and other professional facilities.
About TP Vision
TP Vision is a consumer electronics key player in the world of audio visual digital entertainment. TP Vision concentrates on developing, manufacturing and marketing Philips branded TV sets (Europe, Russia, Middle East, South America, India and selected countries in Asia-Pacific) and audio products (all around the Globe). We do this by combining the innovative Philips brand heritage with our design expertise, operational excellence, flexibility and speed of TPV Technology. With these combined strengths, we bring high-quality TV sets to the market: smart and easy to use with sophisticated styling. We believe in creating products that offer a superior audio and visual experience for consumers. With Philips TVs, TP Vision is a global leader in the hospitality market. TP Vision is the exclusive brand licensee of Philips TVs for the above listed countries and, on the global stage for the Philips audio products.TP Vision employs close to 2,000 people in several locations around the globe and is 100% owned by TPV, one of the world’s leading monitor and LCD TV manufacturers, selling and marketing Philips branded TVs in China. TPV has been able to drive its growth over the years by leveraging its economies of scale and core competencies in R&D, manufacturing, logistic efficiency and quality.
Scope
The Business Controller works as Finance Business Partner to commercial management. He/she delivers effectively support to the European finance organization and secures visibility of the countries P&L’s and a number of specific balance sheet accounts. The role drives management decisions to improve the bottom line results, compliance and control best in class. The business controller supports mainly the TV & Sound business unit.
The success is dependent on the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with sales management and across the company with all functions, and to put the needs of the company and the customer first.
The Business Controller reports directly to the Business Controlling Team Lead. The Business Controlling team is based in our Shared Service Centrum here in Prague, which is supporting Phillips and AOC brands in European region.

Responsibility

• Ensuring clear, concise, timely and accurate performance reports to sales and F&A management, and the relevant budget holders. To focus on the organizations’ key business drivers by developing and maintaining a key metrics approach to performance evaluation. The high focus area is the revenue, sales deductions and margin.
• Pro-active analyses, including statistical trend analysis of country P&Ls and against the trend, budget and latest forecast.
• Securing visibility of country level cost structure and the effects of the outcome, driving management decisions to improve cost structure and control to best in class.
• Managing the long term and short term country P&L’s forecasts.
• Controlling sales deductions & provisions, and OFSE. Preparing monthly control calculations related to sales provisions and selling expenses.
• Approving sales contract conditions, customer commitments, vendor PR/POs. Providing robust challenge and advice on the commercial conditions and plans, ensuring that business decisions are based on sound financial analysis, and that business risks are managed.
• Ensuring effectiveness of country budget planning with focus on OFSE. Preparing the reports, and pointing out areas with problems and/or where improvements can be made.
• Translating strategic business decisions into financial results and inform the relevant parties like R2D, revenue accounting about the decisions. Furthermore, preparing scenarios to make visible the effect of decisions if needed.
• Interacting with the internal customers; with special attention to the Sales Lead, but as well other managers. Acting as their business partner; understanding their needs and requirements and prioritize accordingly.
• Collaborating with strategic customers and providing support to grow the revenues and margins with those customers.
• Attending business review meetings with the budget holders to discuss variances and to stay informed about factors affecting the business.
• Continued focus on process improvements, automation and scalability in line with best practices.
• Working on achieving the team and company goals.
• Executing assigned tasks diligently, on schedule, and to the highest standard. Being flexible to change the controlling scope (e.g. country or business) based on the company needs. Collaborating with team members, coaching and providing them backup, in order to achieve the common objectives.
• Managing audit requirements for the revenue to margin analytics, with a high focus on sales deductions.
• Providing knowledge of external environment, that may influence the Company’s operation in this area (e.g. governmental/regulatory changes, interest rate movements, foreign exchange movements, commodity price changes, etc.)
• Supporting internal and external audits, and tax related items.
• Managing C-Sox/compliance self-assessment. Highlighting potential compliance risks and issues to management.
• Maintaining and improving your professional knowledge, keeping up with latest trends, and working to achieve self-development goals, which will be identified together with the manager
• Assisting the European F&A leadership with ad hoc projects

What Do We Offer You

• Fixed-term employment contract for 3 years - maternity cover.
• Salary combined with a quarterly bonus scheme
• Additional time off: 26 days of holidays, and 4 days of sick leave per year
• Hybrid work model: 3 days in the office and 2 days of Home Office per week
• The opportunity to work from abroad – up to 1 month per annum!
• Flexible working hours
• Public transport allowance
• Multisport card
• Meal vouchers - 150 CZK per working day, fully compensated by the company.
• Pension insurance contributions after 1 year with a company
• Employee Discounts for Phillips products
• Company equipment for work and personal use: laptop and mobile phone with our corporate SIM card and unlimited data tariff!
• Regular team buildings and company events
• Informal and friendly atmosphere in our international team, and opportunities for future growth within the company.

Education And Related Experience

✅ MUST-HAVE REQUIREMENTS:

• 3-5+ years of experience in similar roles.
• Background in finance
• A bachelor or master level degree.
• Working experience from a multinational, consumer product industry
• Proficiency in MS Excel - it is our main working tool
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• IFRS knowledge
• Fluency in English (oral and written)
• Understanding of P&L for reporting
• Team-player mentality
• Customer-oriented, proactively looking for solutions and compromises
• Proactive, assertive, dynamic and autonomous professional
• Drive for problem-solving
• Comfortable with and willing to adapt to a growth environment
• Comfortable with occasional business trips
• An ability to work with strict deadlines
• An ability to work in changing environment
• An ability to combine a helicopter view with focus on details

Please refer the Job description for details