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Bring your skills and ambition to our team! Make a difference in your career with us and join as Business Controller - Europe.

Your responsibilities

• Strategy Planning and Implementation: You serve as key partner to the business in determining the strategy for the area of responsibility, aligning with wider strategy, implementing and making adjustments, if needed.

• Business Planning & Forecasting: You translate budgets into operational plans and establishes measurable targets and execute the business planning and forecasting processes for the area of responsibility.

• Business Performance: You monitor progress achieved and provides insight and analysis to support operational decision-making, identify issues and advises management on action plans and operational strategies to resolve and drive appropriate cost structure, productivity optimization, and capital efficiency

• Cost Management: You monitor progress achieved and provides insight and analysis to support operational decision-making and drive appropriate cost structure, productivity optimization, and capital efficiency metrics

• You support organization to improve business processes and reporting, which includes but is not limited to, production order variances, productivity, purchase price variances, absorption, and overheads and develop labour, material and overhead annual budget assumptions.

• Optimization: You lead cross-functional initiatives that support operational goals and drive definition and implementation of global standards and business specific guidelines to ensure continuous improvement in the financial control process within own area of responsibility

• Internal Controls and Compliance: You ensure transparency in financial reporting and disclosures, define and implement internal controls regarding financial and non-financial operations and ensure compliance with corporate and country standards, regulations, and guidelines. Supports internal and external audits

• Financial reporting: You applyprocesses and tools necessary to obtain transparent and reliable financial data and business information and ensure high quality of financial data and business information in line with defined standards and financial closing schedules

• Communication with internal stakeholders: You assure timely, effective and efficient communication with relevant stakeholders, Accounting Center, and other internal customers such as Operations, Sales, Group, Manufacturing Plants, HR, Service, etc. to deliver key messages and identify and discuss areas for improvement

• OHS and Integrity: You support ensuring a safe working environment, continuous HSE improvement processes and integrity

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business

Your background

• Qualified in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting

• +5 years of experience in the areas of finance, operational, manufacturing, supply chain controlling and/or accounting

• Strong experience with ERP systems preferably SAP4/Hana

• Excellent Microsoft Office skills

• Attention to details with the ability to see a broader picture

• Strong interpersonal and business partnering skills

• Proactive and self-driven personality, team player

• Strong interest in continuous process improvements

• "Can do” attitude

• Good command of English is a requirement & German is an advantage

• Entry-level experience in people management

• Strong communication skills and ability to maintain a constructive dialogue with stakeholders