Forecasting and reporting Manager, ESD
Overall responsibilities
1.Financial controlling for consolidated ESD
2.Monthly closing for ESD in close cooperation with Global Accounting and Consolidation
3.Consolidated financial forecasting
4.Analysis of financials and management reporting
5.Business support, continuous improvement (built on analysis) and digitalization of the global finance function
6.Finance in Business in ESD in close cooperation with Corporate finance compliance function
Main tasks
1.Financial controlling for consolidated ESD
a.Review and control of financial reported information. Controlling encompass review of financial data and selected KPIs vs historic time series, budgets and forecasts. Significant deviations to be reviewed (and/or flagged).
b.Responsibility to ensure efficient and quality assured consolidated financials for ESD
2.Monthly closing for ESD in close cooperation with Global Accounting and Consolidation
a.Responsible for the monthly financial closing process in close cooperation with Global Accounting and Consolidation
b.Follow up with regions, business lines and functions
3.Consolidated financial forecasting
a.Responsible for the ESD forecasting processes in line with Corporate requirements and assumptions
b.Challenge market and internal assumptions
c.Consolidation of financial forecasts and reporting to divisional management and corporate
4.Analysis of financial data and Management reporting
a.Responsibility to ensure standardised financial analysis including actual/actual/budget/forecast, trend analysis and ad-hoc analysis on request.
b.Responsibility to ensure efficient and standardised management reporting supplemented with pre-defined KPI reporting and analysis.
c.Develop improved financial reporting, analysis and reports to reduce time spent on quality assuring and preparing reports. Advocate and support the automatization and digitalisation of analysis and reporting.
d.Responsibility to ensure the implementation of efficient processes for reporting to divisional management and Corporate.
5.Business support, continuous improvement (built on analysis) and digitalization of the global finance function
a.Implementing and improving digital tools for financial forecasting and follow up.
b.Control and review of main assumptions to larger investment applications.
c.Responsibility to ensure continuous improvement of financial reporting processes from local business unit to division.
d.Responsibility to provide project support and improvement work support to units and division.
e.Provide ad-hoc analysis and project support.
6.Finance in Business in ESD in close cooperation with Corporate finance compliance function
a.Implement and develop finance in business (FIB) in ESD in close cooperation with corporate finance compliance department
b.Responsible for FIB audits at ESD entities
c.Improvement of FIB audit standard with corporate finance compliance department in reflecting nature of silicones business and SAP .
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Higher financial education
- MSc/MBA is a plus
Experience
- Proven experience from financial forecasting and reporting
- Experience from international companies
Personal skills / behaviour requirements:
- Language: English (fluent and written), additional languages is a plus
- Strong communication and relationship building skills
- Self-driven and motivated to build a value creating culture
- High integrity; aligned with Elkem code of conduct and Elkem values
- Strong analytical skills, comfortable with numbers
- Excellent communication and people skills
- Strong leadership and organizational skills
- Strong knowledge of data analysis and forecasting methods
- Ability to strategize and solve problems
- Agent to drive forth improvement according to Elkem Business System – Plan-Do-Check-Act methodology
- Proficient in the use of MS Office, financial management software (e.g. SAP) and financial reporting and consolidation software
- Division: Silicones
- Job type: Perm
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- Application deadline: 30.12.2024
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