Global head of Controlling - Central Limburg

Job purpose
Participate in the definition of the company strategy and challenge it, especially with regard to resource allocation. Coordinate the worldwide company plans and budgets and align them with the company strategy and goals. Ensure permanent predictability of the financial situation of the company, make transparent successes as well as areas of improvement, highlight opportunities and threats and, thus increasing the companies’ long and short term profitability.
Manage the controller team and ensure the global alignment of policies and working methods.

Major Accountabilities:
Budget and Forecasts
Coordinate the world wide Budget process by setting clear procedures and timelines. Manage the combination of Top-Down targets and Bottom-Up budgets.
Consolidate all budget aspects, summarize the key messages, assumptions and directions, including potential risks and opportunities, and properly communicate and present them internally and to the shareholder.
Make sure that the budget is for all major aspects in line with the strategic direction of the company.
Coordinate all Forecast and Latest Estimate updates, ensure their quality and communicate them adequately, thus providing predictability of the company’s financial situation.

Management Controlling
Coordinate and steer the definition of financial objectives for the company and define adequate KPIs to measure achievements.
Ensure efficient and effective world wide Division and team Controlling
Advise and support the Management Board in financial and economic tasks in line with the company strategy in order to contribute to the company objective.
Highlight and make transparent discrepancies between company budgets/plans and actual results.
Pro-actively identify risks and opportunities for the company, make them visible and transparent to Management and translate the consequences in possible measures for the company, in line with the company strategy.

Defining strategy
Participate in the definition of the company strategy by coordinating different parts of information relating to figures and calculations. Make sure that the different financial aspects follow a common logic and homogenous methods.
Challenge Management on Strategic choices, esp. concerning resource allocation
Summarize major headlines and propose conclusions to the Management
Translate Strategic choices in the consequences for Value Management and properly present and communicate them.

Organization and Team Development
Organize and further develop the department in Division and specialists team dimension and ensure adequate resources and skills
Set and supervise objectives, policies and procedures in line with the F&A strategy of the company.
Select, develop, motivate and coach the Business/Corporate Controllers based on the company values to effectively support and challenge the different Division and Management Teams as well as projects.
Be a strong and solid part of the F+A management team and participate in the definition and further development of the F+A strategy.

Investments and Projects
Provide adequate methods and tools to support the financial evaluation of projects such as Capex, R+D and M+A projects.
Support Management by making consequences transparent and challenge those projects
Initiate, coordinate and collect information for an investment plan and draw up a proposal for the Management Board in order to support and assist the execution of investments.
Summarize, explain and communicate the investment plan, including the preparation of the relevant approval documents, and check the realization within the company and the corporate goals.

Efficiently manage interface to Shareholder
Be a reliable partner to the Controlling bodies of our shareholder and establish an open,  constructive and efficient communication.
Foresee and be prepared for requests to come.
Protect company from requests on an overdone detail level

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