IT Financial Controlling and Performance Management Specialist

Walter is recruiting for a

IT Financial Controlling and Performance Management Specialist (m/f/d) - location flexible in Europe

Your Responsibilities:

• An essential part of your mission will be to lead the budget processes execution consisting of preparing, prioritizing, justifying and securing funding for Digital Transformation & Information Technology
• This also includes to manage DT & IT spend effectively and proactively
• You will lead end-to-end process around new DT & IT investments, from demand identification and creation of business cases to measurement and post implementation review
• Allocation of costs within the supporting accounting structure and systems, including of showback & chargeback activities
• Benchmark the financial performance of the DT & IT function, highlighting areas for cost optimization, providing transparency
• You will define, maintain and report on the metrics to track the progress of DT & IT achievements against objectives inclusive of business performance contributions
• Contribute to overall DT & IT function process improvement and agile adoption initiatives.
• Guide and support cost center’s owners within DT & IT in budgeting, forecasting and spend management
• Support and/or coordinate a variety of cross-team activities, including maintenance of supplier contracts, creation of purchase orders and investment requests, time reporting, assistance in complex projects financial controlling
• Review purchase and staff augmentation requisitions
• Provide support and guidance for investment approval requests preparation
• Lead definition, implementation, tracking and reporting preparation on DT & IT function’s KPIs
• Run continuous improvement of the performance management tool and related reports
• Support Walter’s CIO with the budget preparation, quarterly recurring reporting or any performance management report
• Work closely with the IT Project Portfolio manager in all financial related topic

This is an individual specialist contributor role and in this role you will report to the Manager of the Office of the CIO (OCIO).

Your Profile:

• You have completed an Bachelor or master’s degree in business administration, Finance, business and computer science or comparable practical business experience
• You have several years of professional experience in controlling (experience in the IT domain is an advantage)
• You have experience with dashboard tools such as SAP SAC or Microsoft Power BI and also in cost center planning, cost allocation and cost distribution
• You have a strong in structured and independent way of working
• You have excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively
• Knowledge in visualizing effectively important information and strong analytical skills and IT acumen
• Project management skills is a plus
• With very good spoken and written English skills, you can more easily infect others with your visions and ideas
• Ability to manage high intensity of work at certain times as per financial calendars

Our benefits:

Walter offers you a modern working environment with flexible working hours, mobile working, a wide range of health measures and company pension schemes. We place great importance on enabling our employees to develop professionally and personally. Safety in the workplace is very important to us and we actively support diversity and inclusion measures.

Start: As soon as possible

Grade: non-tariff

If you have any questions, please contact:

Vijay Anand V R (Senior Manager CIO Office)

vijay.anand_v_r(a)walter-tools.com

How to apply?

Please apply with your complete application documents (letter of motivation, CV, references), stating your salary expectations and earliest starting date via our online tool on the intranet.