Regional Business Controller

KSB GIW, Inc.

Department: Finance
Reports to: VP of Finance
Location: Grovetown, Georgia
Shift: 1st

FLSA Status: Exempt

OVERVIEW:

The Regional Business Controller serves as a senior finance business partner to regional and mining management teams. The role supports the Regional CFO North America / VP Finance GIW / Global Mining Controller in improving business performance, strengthening management accounting maturity, enhancing profitability, and supporting strategic decision-making across the North America region and the Global Mining organization.

This position complements the Regional Controller function. While the Regional Controller focuses primarily on financial integrity, reporting, tax, audit, governance, and compliance, the Regional Business Controller focuses on business performance, management accounting, operational finance, and value creation.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Partner with Managing Directors and management teams to review financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and develop corrective actions.
• Support regular business reviews and performance discussions with fact-based financial analysis and constructive challenge.
• Analyze business drivers, including sales development, margin performance, productivity, cost structure, working capital, and cash flow.
• Lead or support performance improvement initiatives for businesses requiring enhanced financial or operational focus.
• Provide financial guidance for business decisions while maintaining an independent controlling perspective.

• Drive the implementation and continuous improvement of management accounting standards across regional and mining businesses.
• Promote consistent application of cost accounting methods, cost center structures, labor and machine rate calculations, overhead allocation methods, and profitability reporting.
• Assess the management accounting maturity of operating companies and develop practical improvement roadmaps.
• Support local finance organizations in improving cost transparency, product and project profitability analysis, inventory valuation, and manufacturing performance measurement.
• Identify limitations in legacy ERP systems and help develop pragmatic workarounds, reporting enhancements, and longer-term improvement concepts.

• Challenge forecast and budget assumptions from a business-performance perspective, in cooperation with the Regional Controller and local finance teams.
• Support preparation and review of business plans, strategic plans, capital investment requests, and restructuring proposals.
• Prepare financial analyses and business cases for management decisions, including profitability, payback, cash flow, and sensitivity analyses.
• Support the Regional CFO and Global Mining Controller with presentations, performance reviews, strategic analyses, and special projects.

• Analyze profitability by business unit, product line, customer segment, project, market, and company where data is available.
• Support initiatives to improve margins, cost absorption, productivity, pricing discipline, working capital, and return on investment.
• Partner with Operations, Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Finance to improve financial transparency and fact-based decision-making.
• Facilitate best-practice sharing across regional and mining organizations, particularly in cost accounting, management reporting, and performance management.

• Work closely with the Regional Controller to ensure business analysis is aligned with group reporting, forecast timelines, and controlling standards.
• Cooperate with local controllers and finance teams to improve data quality, reporting usefulness, and business understanding.
• Support the development of regional controlling standards, tools, dashboards, and management reporting concepts.
• Perform other duties, special projects, and ad hoc analyses as assigned by the Regional CFO.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, or related field (required).
• MBA, CMA, CPA, CFA, or comparable professional qualification (preferred).

Experience:

·  Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in controlling, finance, management consulting, business analysis, operational finance, or corporate finance.

• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, engineering, mining, or project-driven businesses (preferred).
• Experience working with senior management teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

SKILLS / COMPETENCIES

Skills:

• Management & cost accounting: management accounting, cost accounting, product/project profitability analysis.
• Planning & forecasting: budgeting, forecasting, business planning, sensitivity analysis, working capital management.
• Systems & reporting: knowledge of ERP systems (SAP preferred); modern reporting, database, and BI tools; Power BI or similar preferred.
• Office tools: advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Personal / leadership competencies:
  • Strong business acumen; connect financial results to operational drivers.
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual thinking.
  • Ability to challenge assumptions and management decisions constructively.
  • Strong communication, presentation, and influencing at management level.
  • Self-motivation, independence, and ownership.
  • Ability to operate effectively in an international, matrixed organization.
  • Pragmatic, solution-oriented; able to move from analysis to action.
  • High integrity and ability to maintain an independent controlling perspective.

• Strong business acumen and ability to connect financial results with operational drivers.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual thinking skills.
• Ability to challenge assumptions and management decisions constructively and professionally.
• Strong communication, presentation, and influencing skills at management level.
• High degree of self-motivation, independence, and ownership.
• Ability to operate effectively in an international and matrixed organization.
• Pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset with the ability to move from analysis to action.
• High integrity and ability to maintain an independent controlling perspective.

• Office environment with regular use of computer systems, reporting tools, and financial applications.
• Domestic and international travel may be required to support regional companies, Global Mining entities, and management reviews.
• The position may require occasional work outside normal business hours due to reporting deadlines, international time zones, and project requirements.