Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Engineering (Master's Degree or MBA preferred)
Minimum of five (5) years of relevant work experience
Strong financial and business acumen
Excellent communication and presentation skills at all organizational levels
Creative and self-directed problem solver with good organizational skills
Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
Experience with SAP is mandatory
Ability to work under pressure during budget periods
Travel flexibility as required
Must be authorized to work in the US without sponsorship.
Responsibilities
Conduct independent calculations, forecasts, and reports
Lead product profitability analysis for diverse investment types
Generate standard and ad hoc reports; analyze P&L and sales forecasts
Coordinate forecasts at the business unit level, deriving actionable recommendations
Analyze strategies and set assumptions for budget planning
Monitor business unit goal achievement and suggest improvement measures
Identify improvement opportunities and optimize processes
Organize and execute training sessions
Manage smaller projects in conjunction with the BD
Support legal entity tasks impacting divisions such as pricing and financial evaluations.
Benefits
Comprehensive health insurance
401(k) retirement plan options
Professional development and training programs
Flexible working hours
Opportunities for cross-departmental collaboration
Full Job Description
Your Key Responsibilities
Working independently on various calculations, forecasts and reports.
Independent lead of conducting product profitability calculations (PPA) for different in-vestment types, planning and monitoring of costs and performance, creation of premise sheets, product profitability calculations and variance analyses.
Independently create standard and ad hoc reports across different business units, analysis and interpretation of P&L and sales forecasts.
Coordinate, create and analyze of forecasts on a business unit level in coordination with other departments, plant segments and the supervisor, derivation of recommendations for action from the forecasts.
Lead analysis and define assumptions for the preparation of strategy dialogue and deriva-tion of general conditions for budget planning within a defined framework.
Monitoring of goal achievement of the business unit and derivation of independently give recommendations for action in case of deviation and drive improvement measures.
Actively look for improvement opportunities and to create tools and process optimization as well as the development of controlling methods and procedures with respect to changing economical conditions.
Lead the organization and execution of trainings.
Lead smaller projects with the BD.
Support with Legal entity tasks with divisional impacts (e.g. pricing/rebate accruals, warran-ty claims, IC billing of project cost, evaluation of other financial proceedings, etc.) .
Your Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in either Accounting, Finance or Engineering (Master's Degree or MBA preferred).
Minimum of five (5) years working experience in a similar field.
Deep Financial / Business understanding.
Must be a creative hands-on individual who has very good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills at the highest level of the plant organization.
Must posses well developed problem-solving skills, good organizational skills and has demonstrated the ability to be self-directed and effectively relate to the different levels in the plants.
Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Excel (especially PowerPoint and Excel).
Qualified candidates must have the ability to maintain confidentiality.
Experience with SAP is required.
Work under pressure in Budget times and month end.
Ability to travel as needed.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without employment visa or other sponsorship.
