Our client is one of the most innovative and long established plant breeding/seed companies worldwide. For more than 150 years they have been breeding and marketing high performance varieties for the modern farmer.
As an Junior Financial Controller you will be working in a Shared Service Center, being part of the financial team. Among others, your responsibilities would be:
-Lead yearly financial planning process of (15) affiliates in our region
-Revise budget and quarterly results (including YE closing) to elaborate Forecast-1 and Forecast-2 to give managers the tools to react to the evolution of their business
-Reporting Budget and Forecast to the Head Quarters and BU-Controlling for global consolidation
-Give support and guide local Controllers
-Implement working standards in the countries to simplify and improve reporting to support Management
-Provide local management all kind of financial information needed for the execution of their work/decisions
-Analyse and update cost center structure to ensure consistency with the actual business processes
-Take leadership on supervision of one BU within the Controlling scope
Education
-Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or Finance
Experience
-1 to 2 years of experience in similar tasks
-Knowledge of IFRS
Languages
-Fluent level of English is required
-Other European languages would be a plus
IT Skills
-MS Office products
-SAP (FI-CO)
Personality
-Capacity to communicate well across hierarchies and cultures to exchange business information, motivate personnel and assure a coordination of activities across affiliates, BU’s, functions, countries and cultures
-Able to work in a complex and fast moving international environment, taking initiatives
-Aptitude for numbers, well organized, excellent communication and presentation skills
-Strong analytic skills to understand the business; high numerical complexity affinity
-Competitive salary
-International environment
-Possibility of growth
-Permanent Contract
