Business Unit Finance Manager

What you will do
We are hiring a Business Unit Finance Manager in our business center, based in Bratislava. This individual will be the Finance Partner for the Regional Finance Director as well as Business Unit General Manager and will be the primary owner of the General Ledgers assigned to him/her. As such they will be responsible for the proper closing and statement of the accounts and be the first point of contact for any queries and audits. This role will also be responsible for compliance and ensuring a robust internal control environment in his/her assigned business unit. In addition, this person will act as intermediary between the Bratislava Business Center and other shared services and the Business ensuring close cooperation and fast issue resolution.

How you will do it

Finance Partner

• Primary owner of the General Ledger (GL) and first contact for GL reports, queries and audits
• Conduct financial analysis to support leadership in achieving the organization's short and long-term financial strategies.
• Provide visibility and analytical insight on financials to management and operational teams, with a focus on driving accountability across the organization to improve financial performance for P&L and cash-flows
• Drive performance through regular reviews, set benchmarking, backlog & pre-bid reviews, cash flow analysis
• Collaborating in the deployment of strategic business transformations and simplification programs to optimize current business and Finance processes and tool.
• Own and ensure the timely production of financial results and reliability of financial forecasts
• Review and validate bid economics to support leadership’s decision-making. Review contracts to identify and mitigate commercial finance risks
• Partners with functional experts in sales, project, pricing, controllership, tax, legal, and treasury to ensure compliant and profitable deal structuring. Drive price on new orders, use market analysis to provide insights on deal sensitivities
• Proven interpersonal skills. Communication with direct colleagues and the business. Able to convey complex information to others in straight-forward manner, developing skills to influence others’ and drive cultural change
• Lead cross-functional process-improvement initiatives (policies, automation, simplification, and standardization), implementing best practices to drive financial performance.
• Maintain a robust internal control environment and reporting compliance to relevant internal policies, internal/SOX controls and US GAAP. Responsible for application of DoA

Engagement Manager

• Promote effective communication between the BBC, IBC, and business through first-hand knowledge of the business, stakeholders, processes and issues

• Act as first escalation point for issues that don’t get resolved between business and functional owners

• Act as intermediary to ensure close cooperation and effective communication between the business and internal service providers (CFS, BBC, treasury etc.) and drive allocation of activities per agreed taxonomies and SLAs

What we look for

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or Accounting
• 5-10 years complex finance or controlling experience
• Experience working in matrix environment
• Leadership skills
• Excellent communication
• Strong analytical skills
• Ability to write and speak fluent English

Preferred

• Previous experience with large multinational company in similar industry
• Audit, Internal Control, Financial Compliance, FP&A
• Team Leading
• Shared service centre experience
• Experience of US GAAP,
• ERPs (SAP, iScala, Oracle), HFM

Our Benefits

Besides working in an international environment, you will receive a regularly monthly bonus after your first six months, meal vouchers, a recreation allowance and retail discounts. Additionally, our flexible benefits program will allow you to customize benefits from a selection of 3500 products and service such as gym membership, medical cover, a multi-sports card plus many more.

The gross monthly salary for this position starts from 3000 EUR per month and a monthly bonus that starts after your first 6 months. Please note this is a minimum salary and our compensation packages are based on your professional experience and qualifications.

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