Key accountabilities:
- Assists and advises the Country and Cluster MD for all financial matters relative to the countries and monitor the Country objectives through performance monitoring. Ensures that all operational managers in the countries get the adequate support from the finance organization
- Management - Directly manages the finance population in his perimeter
- Support to Business & act as Business Partner :
- Tender Controlling - Follow project controlling from tendering to cash collection, including support, challenge and validation. Meetings - Presents the Cluster results to the Region SVP, Region Management Committee, the SVP Finance and Executive Committee.
- Financing & Treasury - Drives the process in his perimeter. Ensures cash optimisation and project financing.
- M&A - Supports Group M&A activities in his perimeter
- Strategy - Financial partner in charge of co-establishing the strategy in his perimeter
Controlling Role:
- Manage Controlling in a complex industrial environment, especially on tenders and risks on long term contract.
- Reporting - Ensure reporting compliance to group guidelines
- Project Controlling - Challenges projects financial data in order to help cluster/country Management to keep projects under control, optimize profit and cash
- Industrial/OH Controlling - Drives optimisation actions in order to achieve competitiveness target
- Restructuring - Is part of the decision-making process jointly with Operations and Sector Controlling
- Budget / CL / Rolling forecasts : Challenge country/sites in order to propose a consolidated financial situation in line with management expectations.
- Manage Treasury at Country level. Includes cash pooling, hedging, bonding and project funding
Compliance Role:
- Accounting : ensure all Group legal entities operating in the cluster/country are included and reported in Group accounts perimeter align all units in the country on accounting standards applicable within the Group check that reported information reconcile with local statutory account
- Closing - Supervises closing process at cluster/country level. Drive the management cycle and ensure proper reporting compliance
- Taxes - Manage Tax at country level. Includes transfer pricing, VAT, indirect tax, customs, project tax architecture
- Internal Control - Ensures the countries compliance. Ensure that the units establish a sound internal system of controlling so that the activities results are detected, performances monitored and reported free from bias, transparently
Efficiency Role:
- Processes & Core-model - Optimizes processes, drives the changes towards group core model.
- Tools/ORGA improvement - Ensures the effective promotion of Group Tools and Methodologies (eg NSS)
Performance measurements:
- Meet targeted KPI's of the perimeter(orders, sales, IO, cash)
- No External audit adjustments
- No E&C issue
Educational Requirements
- Management School / MBA or equivalent
- Foreign language: English (mandatory)
- Additional language a plus
Experience
- More than 10 years experience in Finance Management
- Industrial expertise
- To have exercise the keys positions on Finance as Site Controller/&/or Project controller
- Management of a team
Competencies & Skills
Technical Skills:
- Finance technical background from accounting, to Project controlling & site controlling
- Understanding of Financing & some expert skills is a plus as Hedging, IFRS 15.
Soft Skills:
- Team management
- Lead Initiatives
- Results oriented
- Demonstrate Teamwork, Honesty and Integrity
- Ability to Work in an International Environment
