Business Controller (Hybrid)

Baan Samenvatting

We are looking for a senior financial analyst with drive, a team player with oversight, and responsibility to deliver timely and compliant. A person with the ambition to grow into a future leadership position. If you are a pro-active and hands on business partner, that welcomes the opportunity to reach new heights, then this could be the job for you!

Primary purpose This role has major focus on business partnering and understanding the business in order to accelarate and maximize growth and margins through departmental resource allocations, efficiencies and cost savings. Provides financial support, analysis, business cases, reports and presentation materials for management. Use various systems and collaborate closely with multiple stakeholders to deliver forecast analytics to optimise profitability and operational mix. Ensure compliance working with accounting, tax and legal teams. The role requires a deep reach into the organisation to deliver meaningful change that enhances the operation through step change.

Essential duties and responsibilities: •    Business Partnering:  strategically review opportunities with growth plans. Review KPI's and resource metrics regularly, to drive resource optimization. Drive incremental margins with focus on price increase and/or lower costs, run lean projects to reduce the usage of key spend areas. •    Enhance Reporting:  produce meaningful management reporting including forecasting for management review. Establish a regular cadence with cost centre owners on reporting, and initiate joint action plans to improve. Ensure SOX compliance and Corporate reporting. •    Forecast Analytics & Evolution:  deliver weekly, monthly, quarterly forecast and annual plan submissions. Reconcile and explain forecast variances to identify trends and patterns. Analyzing & maintaining complex data and extract and define relevant information. Collaborate with other plants to ensure proper forecasting. •    Revenue Quality Control: drive and lead revenue variance reviews to drive accurate revenue recognition and identify areas for improvement. Optimise backlog and slippage by reviewing revenue and scheduling, finding the optimal mix.  •    Process Efficiency Improvement:  partner to drive process simplification, efficiency, and time savings, eliminating waste and non-value add activities. Create a regular and powerful review process to assess cost recovery and identify additional charges.   •    Train and Develop Financial Awareness and Ownership: create and deliver training content on revenue recognition, and profitability. Identify and develop training needs. Use reporting to drive ownership within Operational leadership and throughout their organisational structures. May assist with supervision team members. 

Qualifications: •    Education: bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in finance, business management, or related discipline required. Advanced education preferred. •    Experience: minimum 5 years related experience in a similar job preferable in a pharmaceutical, laboratory or research environment. •    An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above. •    Ability to multi-task, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and attention to detail. Possesses analytical thinking and problem-solving skills. Ability to prioritize and re-evaluate priorities as situations change. •    Systems: working knowledge of software; MS Office, Excel, PowerBI, SAP and database experience preferred.

WE OFFER •    A challenging and independent position in a dynamic environment; •    Opportunity to grow into a future leadership position; •    Possibility of further personal and professional development within a fast growing organization; •    Full time or part-time function (32 hours minimum); •    Good primary  and secondary working conditions like a NS Business Card and an interesting pension scheme; •    Open and informal company culture.