Vertical Sales Finance Controlling Professional
SiemensCompany: Siemens Industry, Inc.
Location: 1000 Deerfield Pkwy, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089
Position Title: Vertical Sales Finance Controlling Professional
Salary: $ 120,000 - $131,400 / year
Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, 40 Hours/ Week
Summary of Duties: Ensures planning, monitoring, and review of Vertical budgets, and provides comments for Actual vs. Plan reports. Monitors financial performance, provides KPI analyses, and prepares and comments respective performance reporting and forecasts. Analyzes, prepares, approves, and reviews Vertical investments and expenditures, and provides respective reporting. Coordinates and manages finance related transactions with involved internal and external parties. Supports validation of Volume and cost Forecast for Vertical Markets in collaboration with Sales Management Supports the Sales target setting, Quota and Incentive process for the Verticals and tracks results throughout the year. Supports global Vertical Market reporting and drives alignment with global headquarter entities on funding and reporting. Drives standardization of Vertical Market performance tracking. Performs trend- and variance-analysis and supports the development of strategies to maximize Order Intake. Supports Vertical Sales Finance lead, Sales Managers and works closely with global Vertical organizations. Drives all day-to-day Finance operations and application of Finance systems. Ensures coherence with superior Controlling standards, policies and procedures, adopts respective processes. Performs monthly commentary of actual and forecast information to be used in global reporting packages and for discussion of financial results with US and Global Management. Ensure proper cost center controlling, and design and maintenance of underlying cost account systems. Supports Vertical Market and Sales Managers to manage costs and plan budgets. Provides transparency to Sales Management, related activity and management of the respective monthly forecast and controlling of actual performance. Reports accurately and timely to accountable management. Creates comprehensive presentations for Sales Management to present key business data and tell the story behind the numbers. Dedicated to fostering a high performance culture and an environment of continuous learning; ensuring appropriate business, technical, and process knowledge shared amongst the team. Embraces change and flexibility; committed to constant personal development and adaption of new processes. Continuously enhances and improves reporting process and standard reports to achieve highest data quality and meet any given deadline. Less than 5% domestic travel. Remote work permitted.
Qualifications: The position requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Finance or a related field and Five (5) years of experience in the job offered, as a Financial Analyst, or an acceptable alternate occupation. Alternately will accept: Master’s degree in Finance or a related field and Three (3) years of experience. Position requires experience with the following: Advanced working knowledge of SAP (FI/CO); Highly proficient in MS office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access) and Thinkcell; Ability to gather, structure, consolidate and analyze large amounts of financial information and develop an overarching view, also in graphical format, that describes the key message for Management’s use; Solid business acumen and ability to interact and communicate with all levels of Management; Advanced knowledge of financial analysis and documentation methods to consolidate and validate large quantity of information and complex business issues; Experienced in supporting digital change, digitalization and standardization of financial processes; Experience in manufacturing / product distribution industry; Experienced with automation of processes, using for example tools such as Knime and visualization tools, such as Tableau or Power BI; SAC - SAP Analytics Cloud knowledge.