Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst - Controlling Capability Center

The opportunity:

Provide controlling and planning specialist expertise to the COE and its customers within one of the Process Areas as part of the COE service offerings.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Financial planning & analysis (FP&A) – Overall accountability for the analytical services to the business, based on customer requirements.
•  Responsible for automated tools/reports design, implementation and maintenance. Semi-automated and manual analytical services, and one-off (ad-hoc) analytical output.
• Functional Controlling – controlling, budgeting, cost control, charging mechanisms, tax compliance and Business Partnering within respective Function.
• Specifically, he/she is accountable to: a) support and drive the execution of continuous process improvements; b) ensure process management, standardization and innovation; c) participate in regular process performance validation in order to enable KPI based process performance steering; d) manage key process stakeholders’ interactions; e) review the key identified process inefficiencies and misalignments vs. the Process Standards.
• Actively participate in process improvement initiatives, regionally and/or globally. Accountable for end to-end process management, process performance overseeing and steering throughout the entire finance organization. Facilitates the exchange of knowledge and best practices between the COEs.
• Interacts with the key process stakeholders to ensure that process related guidance is followed and that process related tasks / actions are implemented according to the Process Standards.
• Optimizes own performance to increase productivity by developing automated solutions, eliminating duplications, coordinating information requirements. Enhance the expertise knowledge in one or multiple processes through coaching.
• Systems and Master Data Governance – charts of account, Business Warehouse tools.
• Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• Master’s degree in finance and accounting or professional Qualifications (CA or CMA).
• 5 - 8 years of experience in Controlling and Accounting at functional and corporate level with 5+ years of experience in Functional Controlling processes area of matrixed multinational organizations.
• Proven Process Management knowledge and experience (e.g. finance process modelling, Business Process Management).
• Strategic thinker, detail oriented, structured with good analytical skills.
• Proficient MS Office, incl. Excel, good understanding of IT systems: ERP, Planning & Reporting tools and integrated solutions.
• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.