General information vacancy:
Financial Controller Benelux
WO
-
ZH
04-02-2019
- Job profile
Roles & Responsibilities
- Timely and accurate processing of all relevant Controlling activities
- Be the “Back office” and “Sparring partner” for local Business Controllers in NL
- Secure controlling relevant Master Data consistency in Benelux
- Create standard reports and standard analysis and submit on time as per corporate closing schedule
- Ensure accuracy of monthly income statement, balance sheet, cost center and capex actual reporting
- Prepare training material and conduct training of the staff inside and outside Finance
- Ensure process standardization and improvements in their areas of responsibility
- Highly IT sensitive (SAP CO modul)
- Prepare quarterly and year end audit documentation and support statutory audit
Cost accounting & Controlling
- Perform period-end cost accounting entries & review allocation of relevant costs
- Provide input for accruals
- Set-up of the settlement cycles and monitor monthly run of the settlement cycles
- Provide cost center reporting & analysis (Plan vs. actual deviation)
- Ensure compliance at all times
- Ensure needed CO reclassifications
Profitability & Product Costing
- Perform Product Costing activities (contributing margin analysis) and inventory accuracy
- Estimate activity rates
- Record period end production and distribution costs
- Perform standard inventory analysis
- Value inventory at actual costs
- Ensure standard prices are defined & applied for all products
- Control & adapt standard pricing in line with volatility of certain products (Helium, etc.)
- Calculation & analysis of production cost (COGS)
- Reporting/Budgeting
Process optimization
- Document record to report processes
- Enhance by automatization, standardization.
- Ensure that claimed savings are included in the submitted cost center budgets
- Evaluate proposed saving initiatives in record to report
- Propose savings in record to report
- Review and assess (financial & non-financial) input from other systems (e.g. in production, logistics, planning) into consideration.
- Liaise with the project office team (PMO) where needed
Reporting and Planning
- Be liaison between the Benelux organisation and IBM Poland
- Point of contact with regional, EMEA and/or corporate reporting
- Perform corrections on stock
- Report from SAP to TM1 monthly reconciliation and download
- Check bookings made by IBM Poland and India on price differences and Costs
Check all reports made by IBM Poland on completeness and accuracy
- Maintain Master data structures
- Key user SAP
- IFRS and US GAAP accounting manual
- SOX Controls
- Perform upload budget and Forecast to COGNOS TM1 for all Benelux Companies
- Capex Budget and Forecast monitoring
- Support the completeness of the risk database
- • Maintain list of potential upside/downside with impact on financial results
- Job requirements
- You hold a University degree in Finance / Controlling (WO or WO level)
- Manufacturing / SAP Controlling experience 10+ years
- Used to a functional organization, cross border processes and multicultural management teams
- Process thinker
- Willing and able to grow personally & professionally
- English (any other language a plus)