Our client is one of five divisions of a worldwide operation industry group based in Nyon (near Geneva). The company is the leading global provider and expert in hydronic distribution systems and room temperature control with a turnover of 300 million £ and operating profit of £70.3 M.
The company designs and delivers technical products, services, systems to ensure problem-free, energy-efficient and cost-effective heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) solutions for buildings and indoor environments. Main markets are heating and cooling systems for commercial buildings and temperature control for residential buildings. It employs circa 1,850 people across the globe with production sites in Sweden, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and the US.
Main responsibilities:
- Guide, coordinate and motivate global finance teams to ensure all reporting requirements are met within given deadlines, while maintaining a high quality standard.
- Manage finance consolidation of 40 legal entities including 6 manufacturing sites.
- Manage and enhance budget and forecasting process within the group framework.
- Full year budget, H2 forecast, Q4 forecast and 3 year game plan
- Improve short term forecasting and monitor performance against forecast using forward looking analytical tools such as global latest view models and sales and order trend models. - Manage weekly and monthly reporting including process manuals:
- Weekly Sales & Order Intake reports including trend and variance analysis.
- Debtor and Cash reporting on a weekly basis including cash flow projections.
- Analysis and consolidation of monthly financial statements (variance analysis and bridge models vs forecast and last year). - Design and evolve reporting structure in alignment with the new business model (principal company and contract manufacturing).
- Establish easy to understand KPI’s and reports for CFO, President and senior management.
- Improve visibility, understanding and accountability through quick and reliable reporting.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate should be an expert in Excel and have a great flair to work with this tool to optimize his work and support your clients with information. The consolidation software is Cognos, IFS is the ERP system.
You should also have solid knowledge and experience of group accounting, budgeting, financial controls and financial systems as well as good knowledge in audit work and procedures.
Very important in this role is a flexible and pro-active mindset as well as the passion to perform a state-of-the-art controlling for this organisation in order to help the management to take the best possible decisions.
International travelling is required.
Languages: English
Location: Nyon (near Geneva)
Contact: Please send your application to our MAS-Partner Mr. André Vögtlin (av1@mas.ch). André will come back to you with suggestions for a first interview on skype (with video) if your profile matches this requirements.