Responsibilities:
- Validate POs and track invoices received
- Monthly closing (review invoices booked, prepare accruals and manual postings, correct wrong entries)
- Prepare monthly reporting (P&L and Capex) and perform variance analysis versus Budget
- Compute and follow intercompany billing
- Provide feedback to departments’ Heads about monthly expenses and main impacts
- Track capital expenditure and fixed assets (activation, asset lifetime, depreciation)
- Reconcile headcounts variations in collaboration with HR Department
- Allocate Staff costs by tasks & projects using timesheets and allocation keys
- Attend governance meetings with Top Management to represent Finance
Regional
- Track and manage cost across the Region including but not limited to analysis of cost and reason for variances.
- Identify actions items for cost improvements.
Budget
- Support HQ departments during Budget process and present it to Top Management for validation
- Co-ordinate budget preparation across the region, collaborate and report to business leader
Projects
- Challenge Teams on spending, projects ROI, capitalization decision
- Support ROI calculation for projects
- Simplify tacking and validation
- Prepare any additional ad-hoc analysis requested
What the role offers:
- Operational position (covers all missions of a cost controller)
- Strong autonomy and potential to propose improvements and build the function
- Exposure to ERP (Microsoft Dynamics)
- Exposure to Top Management
- Regional role for business related matters
- Join the world leader in the eye care industry with several perspectives of evolution
Profile Required:
- Autonomous, fast learner, taking initiatives, communicative skills, rigorous, friendly and optimistic
- Prior first experience in management control or FP&A
- Strong excel skills
- Experience using an ERP is an advantage (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, etc)
- Understanding of basic accountings rules and principles
- Full working proficiency in English
- Prior exposure and understanding of IT functions (optional)
- Travelling is required
- Regional exposure will be advantage
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in Finance / Controllership roles.