Function Transparency - M&S support

The opportunity:

Support the Marketing and Sales (M&S) controller in managing finance data, building dashboards, and enabling automation initiatives. This role focuses on data accuracy, visualization, and analytics to provide actionable insights for planning, forecasting, and decision-making.

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 M&S 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 fi- nance organization. Facilitates the exchange of knowledge and best practices within the Functions.

• 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:

• Should have MBA in Finance/Accounting or CA/bachelor’s degree in business or accounting 

• Must have 2-4 years of professional experience in the areas of Risk Assessment and Internal Controls.

• Knowledge of SOX, Internal audit, Internal controls, IT audit and ITGC.

• Knowledge of ERP’s like S4 Hana/ SAP / Oracle/ JDE / etc. and their native application controls will be preferred.  

• Knowledge of flowcharts design and process improvements. 

• Ability to exercise professional skepticism and judgement while evaluating risks and controls.

• Ability to effectively interact with internal/external team and work well within a collaborative team.

• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.