Controlling Business Partner - Southern Eastern Western (SEW) Europe (m/f/d)

[Internal Opportunity]   Controlling Business Partner - Southern Eastern Western (SEW) Europe (m/f/d)

Are you looking to grow or to develop new skills within Hager Group? An opportunity has just come up within the Controlling department.

What if this was your chance to explore a new field, grow your skills, and thrive in a new role?

Dare to apply and join your new team.

[Internal Opportunity]   Controlling Business Partner - Southern Eastern Western (SEW) Europe.

Are you looking to grow or to develop new skills within Hager Group?

An opportunity has just come up within the Controllingdepartment. What if this was your chance to explore a new field, grow your skills, and thrive in a new role? Dare to apply and join your new team ⚡.

We are looking for our future Controlling Business Partner  - Southern Eastern Western (SEW) Europe, M/F/D based in Poland.

Your mission

Bringing more value to the Business in a cost-efficient way is our ambition as Controlling Function.

To achieve this ambition, Controlling department continues its Transformation Journey, which is based on 3 pillars : Organisation, Planning & Forecasting, Analytics & Digitalisation.

As Controlling Business Partner - Southern Eastern Western (SEW) Europe, you support this transformation of the Controlling Department and contribute to achieving our ambition by strengthening value contribution and business impact.

As a Controlling Business Partner:

• You proactively steer enterprise risk and opportunities, develop strategic initiatives, drive cost reduction initiatives and set up and maintain financial (and support non-financial) steering models.
• Reactively, you drive enterprise agility, initiatives to promote growth, organizational development and improve business processes.
• More specifically, you drive pricing initiatives, commercial cost initiatives and create and drive growth development business plans.
• You will operate in an international environment supporting 8 countries, with team members located across local organisations and Shared Service Centres.

Reporting to the Controlling Business Partner - International Sales (located in Dubai), you are in charge of the middle & small markets of Europe and your main missions are the following:

• Support the market area business for the region - International Sales:
• Partner with key decision-makers across the region.
• Provide guidance on the financial implications of strategic & operational decisions.
• Deliver meaningful insights and decision-relevant data to support business performance.

• Financial planning and forecasting, in the frame of the Integrated Financial Planning (IFP):
• Contribute to the target-setting process, ensuring adherence to four-eyes principle.
• Cascade, coordinate and challenge local budget preparation to ensure alignment with agreed targets.
• In parallel, raise awareness on risk and opportunities vs. the target.
• Contribute to high-level forecasting at segment level.
• Work in collaboration with the local Controlling teams and the operational managers to translate operative plans into business plans according to group’s standards.
• Manage the budget and forecasts processes.
• Analyze variances, make recommendations to the Top Management and deploy associated action plans.
• Lead and develop the team across the region while fostering strong collaboration with local finance teams.
• Support operational teams through training and coaching and provide reliable data to facilitate decision-making.
• Guarantee the application of the group’s standards.

Your Profile

• Bachelor or Master´s degree or equivalent academic qualification.
• At least 7 to 10 years of experience in different areas of Controlling on an international scale with a strong proximity to the business.
• Strategic mindset, problem solving and analytical skills are key to succeed in this position.
• Your customer orientation, your ability to work in a transversal mode and your communication skills will be key competencies as well.
• You have advanced proficiency in Excel, SAP and BW and are fluent in English. French or German language would be a plus.

Interested in joining a team of 5 passionate experts?

To learn more, contact Rakesh POKHRIYAL , the manager of this amazing team straight away.

They can’t wait to share their expertise and take on new challenges together with you. 🚀

Be bold, the power of internal mobility is in your hands: once your application has been submitted and your manager has been informed, our HR team will contact you for an initial interview with the hiring manager and the HRBP of your future position. 

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