Global Controlling Manager, Operations (f/m/d)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting activities related to Procurement (Direct & Indirect) and Supply Chain (Inventories and Freight cost).
• Providing guidelines for regional teams for raw material prices, freight cost and indirect spend development.
• Monthly variance and KPI analysis (group & regional level), comparison vs. budget and previous year, update monthly KPI dashboards and report commentaries on key figures to management.
• Business partner role for head of global procurement and head of global supply chain, supporting related strategies, projects, improvement initiatives.
• Decision support for business partner teams: Evaluating supplier’s offers, supporting supplier negotiations, providing data transparency (spend/cost, inventories, savings, etc.).
• Monthly price tracking for key raw materials, recalculate intercompany raw material prices, manage supplier bonus accruals
• Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis for Procurement Principle (SIG entity in Neuhausen).
• Key role for commodity hedging decisions for the group for related A-Material exposures.
• Develop data analysis possibilities with BI-Tools (e.g. QlikView/QlikSense) to improve data transparency.
• Ad-hoc analysis for various stakeholders (Procurement/SCM business partners, top management/board requests, regions, FP&A, accounting, treasury, tax, sales teams etc.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:

• 5-7 years of experience in controlling area of multinational multicultural organisations operating in manufacturing field, preferably with a focus in the field of procurement
• Finance & Business administration degree (University or comparable)
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office (complex Excel analysis and selective Powerpoint presentations)
• Knowledge of ERP SAP (particularly FI/CO module)
• Basic knowledge of COGNOS/TM1
• Language skills: English business fluent
  

CAPABILITIES:

• Excellent analytical skills with a high attention to detail and the ability to see the big picture
• Strong organizational and time management skills with the ability to perform in an everchanging multi-taksing environment
• Hands on mentality and able to work independently
• Supporter of lean principles and methodologies to creat value within our organization