Finance Business Partners Experienced Professional

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Mission Statement

Provide controlling and planning Analyst expertise to the COE and its customers within one of the Process areas as part of the COE service offerings.

Your Responsibilities:

• Financial planning & analysis (FP&A) – Overall accountability for the analytical services to the business, based on customer requirements. Responsible for automated tools/reports design, implementation and maintenance. Semi-automated and manual analytical services, and one-off (ad-hoc) analytical output.
• HQ Controlling – controlling, budgeting, cost control, charging mechanisms, tax compliance and Business Partnering within BU controlling team.
• Specifically, he/she is accountable to: a) support and drive the execution of continuous process improvements; b) ensure process management, standardization and innovation; c) participate in regular process performance validation in order to enable KPI based process performance steering; d) manage key process stakeholders interactions; e) review the key identified process inefficiencies and misalignments vs. the Process Standards;
• Actively participate in process improvement initiatives, regionally and/or globally. Accountable for end-to-end process management, process performance overseeing and steering throughout the entire finance organization. Facilitates the exchange of knowledge and best practices between the COEs.
• Interacts with the key process stakeholders to ensure that process related guidance is followed and that process related tasks / actions are implemented according to the Process Standards.
• Optimizes own performance to increase productivity by developing automated solutions, eliminating duplications, coordinating information requirements. Enhance the expertise knowledge in one or multiple processes through coaching.
• Systems and Master Data Governance – charts of account, Business Warehouse tools.
• 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.

Knowledge, Skill and Experience

HQ Controlling -Global Support

1. Budget & Forecast and decision support

• Responsible for overseeing the business planning process and extending support to the HQ controlling team for evaluating the implications of various business decisions for final target setting.

2. Transparency in reporting and ensure data accuracy for HQ review calls

• Responsible for the data accuracy validation in the monthly financial performance reports and advice for necessary actions required.

3. Leads initiatives that support strategic goals

• Ensures continuous improvement in the financial control process in alignment with global standards and local policies.

4. Finance business partnering with internal stakeholders

• Ensures timely and efficient communication with relevant Local/Country/Division/Region Controllers, Finance Business Partner or Centers of Expertise, and other internal customers to identify and discuss issues for improvement of operations, work quality and efficiency for area of responsibility.

Your Background:

• Master's Degree in Finance and Accounting or Professional Qualifications (CA or CMA).
• 3 - 4 years of experience in Controlling and Accounting at functional and corporate level with 2+ years of experience in Cost Controlling processes area of matrixed multinational organisations.
• Proven Process Management knowledge and experience (e.g. finance process modelling, Business Process Management).
• Robust process understanding from the content and technical (IT) perspective
• Solid understanding and experience with Finance Process Policies
• Very good understanding of any industrial/manufacturing Business set-up and interconnections
• Ability to interact with Process stakeholders at various levels and integrate with other Process Owners
• Very good communication and interpersonal skills at all levels
• Very good problem solving and organizational skills and proven ability to prioritize responsibilities
• Demonstrated ability to achieve objectives, focus on details
• Strategic thinker, detail oriented, structured with good analytical skills
• Proficient MS Office, incl. Excel
• Good understanding of IT systems: ERP (S4 Hana would be plus), Planning & Reporting tools and integrated solutions. Fluent in English, other languages are a plus.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.