Senior Controlling Specialist
Position Details
Our client is a leading German manufacturer, currently setting up a Global Business Services centre in Sofia. They are planning to hire nearly 150 individuals into four teams: Procure to Pay, Record to Report, Order to Cash, and Controlling.
They are currently looking for a motivated and pro-active professional to join their dream team and support daily operations as Senior Controlling Specialist.
Job Responsibilities
- Participate in transition activities
- Perform transactional activity with limited supervision related to Controlling area
- Initiatives on process improvements: Suggest methods to update, simplify, and enhance processes, procedures and technologies
- Support continuous improvement and implementation of programs, policies, and procedures
- Recognize unusual events or consistent problems and work with team leader to resolve issues
- Ensure customers are satisfied to maintain a positive brand image for the GBS
- Ensure data is accurate in company systems
- Training and supporting of less experienced employees
- Prepare standard management reporting
- Prepare Risk reporting (Distribution of template to functions and analyze feedback)
- Prepare FTE reporting
- Reconcile/ consolidate local P&L and balance sheet figures into group accounts
- Upload figures to group business consolidation system
- Perform Production report
- Support Closing process -monthly, quarterly, year-end (Analyze deviations in IC-invoices, evaluate inventory incl. reclassification, cost allocation)
- Analysis of the financial performance of the operations
- Actively contributing to the forecasting and financial planning
- Support decision making
- Support audit process
Job Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting or business administration
Experience
- More than 5 years of experience in Controlling area
Competencies
- Experience with simple to complex query handling
- Strong customer service focus and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical, problem solving, organizational and communication skills
- Work experience in SAP CO and/or other Controlling & Accounting tools
- Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PPT)
- Taking initiative in a proactive manner to improve own and teamwork practices
- Full professional proficiency of written and oral English is required
- B1 German or higher would be an advantage
