Job Description

As a Commercial Controlling Manager, you leverage data-driven insights to optimize financial performance and support strategic decision-making. Your demonstrated expertise in financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting ensures accurate and timely reporting, driving business growth and efficiency.
Key Responsibilities:

• Play a key role in setting up new reporting processes for our owners: Lead the development and implementation of efficient reporting processes to ensure accurate and timely information delivery to stakeholders.
• Ownership of monthly collection and review of defined KPIs: Take full responsibility for gathering and analyzing key performance indicators on a monthly basis to track and improve business performance.
• Support monthly closing activities: Assist in the timely and accurate completion of monthly financial closing activities, ensuring all financial data is properly recorded and reported.
• Support during Budget and Forecasting process: Contribute to the budgeting and forecasting processes by providing detailed financial analysis and insights to support strategic planning.
• Support the preparation of presentations and documentation for senior management: Aid in the creation of comprehensive presentations and documentation to effectively communicate financial insights and recommendations to senior management.
• Play a role in improving relevant reporting systems: Participate in the enhancement and optimization of reporting systems to increase efficiency and accuracy in financial reporting.

• Support on ad-hoc requests/projects in a timely and accurate manner: Provide prompt and precise support for various ad-hoc requests and projects, ensuring high-quality outcomes.
• Provide support for Commercial regions and facilitate decision-making through data-driven analysis: Deliver support for Commercial Regions operations and collaborate closely with the business to manage G2N and Opex accruals, ensuring accurate financial tracking and reporting.
• Assess current state and drive standardization for key strategic initiatives across Finance: Evaluate the current financial landscape and champion the standardization of critical strategic initiatives to ensure consistency, efficiency, and alignment across the Finance department.
• Explore SAP capabilities for key processes: Investigate and leverage SAP functionalities to optimize essential financial and operational processes, enhancing overall efficiency and effectiveness.
• Play a key role in redefining the processes for the ERP upgrade: Contribute significantly to the redefinition and optimization of processes in preparation for the ERP upgrade, ensuring seamless integration, enhanced performance, and minimal disruption.
• Help to drive reporting consistency across the regions: Promote and ensure uniform financial reporting practices across different regions to maintain data integrity, comparability, and transparency.
• Be the power user for our finance BI reports and help to further evolve them: Act as the primary expert for finance business intelligence reports, continuously improving and evolving these tools to meet organizational needs and drive better decision-making.
• Design and implement process improvements to shorten the reporting cycle: Review and enhance the reporting cycle, systems, and timelines by implementing automated solutions and best practices to streamline financial reporting, improve data accuracy, and accelerate decision-making.

• Capability to draw insights from data: Proficient in analyzing complex datasets to extract actionable insights that drive strategic decision-making.
• Hands-on and solutions-oriented: Demonstrates a proactive approach to problem-solving, with a focus on practical and effective solutions.
• Strong analytical skills: Possesses exceptional analytical abilities, enabling thorough evaluation and interpretation of data to support business objectives.
• Independent thinker and self-starter: Exhibits a high degree of autonomy and initiative, capable of working independently to achieve goals.
• Willingness to constantly learn on the job: Committed to continuous professional development, staying updated with the latest industry trends and technologies.
• Open-minded and able to adapt quickly to new situations: Embraces change and is flexible in adapting to new challenges and environments.
• Ability to lead a small team on or off-site: Skilled in leadership, capable of managing and motivating a team effectively, whether in-person or remotely.
• Team and target-oriented: Strong team player with a focus on achieving collective goals and meeting targets efficiently.
• Financial reporting and accounting: Ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and providing accurate financial insights to support business decisions.
• SAP: Proficient in using SAP for various financial and operational processes, including data management, reporting, and system integration to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Project Management: Skilled in planning, executing, and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget, while effectively managing resources and stakeholders.
• Presentation and communication skills: Strong ability to create and deliver compelling presentations, effectively communicate complex information, and engage with diverse audiences to drive understanding and action.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in Controlling or Accounting: Demonstrates a solid foundation and practical expertise in financial management, with a proven track record of at least three years in controlling or accounting roles.