Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst - Controlling Capability Center (Open)

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:

• Should have master’s degree in finance and accounting or professional Qualifications (CA or CMA).

• Must have 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.