Finance Business Controller- West & North

Role and Responsibilities Guardian of the PnL and financial health

• Monitors and drives actions to ensure accurate gross profit is reflected in the PnL, at total entity/country level down to job/shipment level.
• Coordinates improvements on upstream issues impacting job costing and financial transparency, working closely with FINOPS colleagues and ensure correct usage of approved material codes
• Actively oversees and drives improvements on financial risk and exposure originated from operational processes impacting receivables and payables
• Makes final validation of monthly accruals and overall result.

Bridge between Operations and Finance

• Ensures file management controls are followed and that a proper mindset on Revenue Assurance and Standards is in place.
• Oversees key operational processes by ensuring quality, accuracy, completeness and timeliness of revenue and cost are updated in system by execution teams.
• Review the use of 'to-be-deactivated' and incorrect material codes liaise with MMD team for support to switch to correct codes
• Perform Risk and Compliance assessment as required in the RICC Manual, within BCO scope. This also includes actively supporting effective resolution of audit findings.

Proactively prevent issues

• Discovers gaps in existing process to prevent negative impacts on PnL accuracy and financial health, avoiding potential audit findings.
• Identifies risks on new service offerings and processes and review with other functions to mitigate/reduce/avoid.
• Works together with CX in the implementation of new customers to avoid pitfalls in the future process to ensure customer satisfaction while safeguarding potential financial exposure.

Add value to the bottom line

• Act as business partner to CX/FINOPS and Area Management to identify and drive resolution of revenue/costs leakages
• Focus on loss making and under performing businesses, providing insights on reasons behind it and solutions on how to turnaround
• Other ad-hoc duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Degree in Accounting or Finance
• Chartered Accountant /MBA
• Minimum 10 years working experience.
• Knowledge in local tax rules and compliance
• Proven experience in financial analysis, financial modelling,
• Working knowledge on Warehouse business is advantage

Skills

• Experience and business acumen in country logistics is highly preferred
• MS Office (Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
• Excellent command of written and spoken English
• Analytical, strong planning, presentation, and organizational skills
• Self-motivated, result driven and can be counted on to exceed goals successfully
• Ability to work with large volume of data
• Collaboration skills and Stakeholder management skills
• Financial analysis
• Financial modelling