Financial Controller

MISSION

The role is responsible for managing controlling processes within the organization, ensuring alignment of overall business targets, cost projections and investment decisions. This involves managing the long-term planning, yearly budgeting and periodic forecasting processes in line with the Group Strategy, providing analyses of revenue, cost, and profitability to identify opportunities for improvement, and monitoring progress of new initiatives. Finally, the role requires managing the controlling and managerial reporting processes, providing reliable and up to date information to contribute in the periodic analysis of variations from budget and forecasts, ensuring costs remain under control and supporting senior management in guiding the business in resources allocation and identification of corrective actions.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Manages the preparation and consolidation of yearly budget and related revision cycles (forecasts) as well as long-term plans, ensuring adherence to defined guidelines, methodologies and timelines;
2. Coordinates with Functional / Regional / Country management to ensure alignment of financial targets and resource allocation, accordingly with Group's strategy;
3. Supports senior management in providing assistance to Leadership / Senior Management in analyzing business performance by preparing analyses of revenue, cost and profitability to identify profit improvement / potential savings actions;
4. Provides financial support to Management and manages all special studies and analyses as required;
5. Supports all functional areas with financial and economic evaluations for initiatives and investments, ensuring alignment with business strategies and defined targets;
6. Monitors financial trends company-wide and by functional areas, analyzing results and variances versus previous forecasts, and provides suggestions to senior management for effectively supporting the business in identifying adequate actions;
7. Monitors the progress of new initiatives planned by the business / functional areas in order to evaluate results and returns on investments;
8. Manages development, implementation and update of the industrial controlling model, standard cost structure, and related methodology;
9. Monitos financial KPIs and metrics for functional areas and manages the managerial reporting process, ensuring data consistency, completeness, and timeliness, thus enabling agile resource allocation decisions;
10. Works with accounting teams for reconciliation of managerial and statutory reporting (internal vs external) within the period-end process;
11. Identifies opportunities for improvement in terms of processes and technologies supporting controlling and managerial reporting activities and provides recommendations to senior management.

GENERAL SKILLS

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

BUDGET / PEOPLE RESONSIBILITIES