Business Controllerer

About the Role

You will be responsible for providing and interpreting financial information for Sales and Revenue or Costs and supporting the Business Decision Support (BDS) organisation in analysing and monitoring trends. Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will be the Subject Matter Expert for key systems and models within the CoE Sales & Revenue or the CoE Costs. In this role, you will be responsible for interpreting actuals, forecast and budget data and providing commentaries and insight. You will be an expert in financial data analysis, able to provide insights and recommendations to the management team. Working closely with the Financial Director and the BDS Business Controllers, your role will be instrumental in driving the company's financial success and growth.

Responsibilities

• Handling management reporting for actuals and budgets/forecasts, including variance analysis and commentaries
• Developing and optimizing the financial reporting tools within CoE and BDS
• Supporting as the CoE liaison person for Finance projects within Elsevier, delivering process improvements within the Finance and Non-Finance community
• Ensuring that senior management's priority information requirements are delivered and operationalized on a timely basis
• Owning the planning, budgeting and forecasting process systems, continuously improving the capabilities in cross-functional collaboration with various stakeholders
• Designing, developing and maintaining business case models, providing financial inputs for business case or analysis of strategic/operational initiatives
• Ensuring quality and compatibility of data in multiple systems, responsible for user acceptance testing
• Maintaining a broad view of Revenue Accounting and manage interactions with stakeholders internally and externally

Requirements

• Experience working independently to deliver initiatives and objectives.
• Possess excellent knowledge and understanding of financial and management accounting, process and systems
• Be a self-starting, adaptable learner with a can-do mentality
• Demonstrate competency within financial accounting, with advanced technical expertise and understanding of internal controls
• Be comfortable navigating a complex and demanding, highly-matrixed environment
• Demonstrate advanced management reporting and analysis capability, with experience owning business unit process
• Experience planning, budgeting, forecasting and creating comprehensive reporting decks

Job Qualification:

•   Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting or related area.

•   Minimum of 3 years experience in financial reporting, planning, and analysis (revenue, cost, expense); with actual experience in budgeting and providing commentaries

•   Strong analytical skills, a self-starter with can do mentality; quick learner in a complex and demanding environment.

•   Excellent knowledge and understanding of financial and management accounting, process and systems.

•   Affinity with large and complex international working environment; ability to travel occasionally.

•   Commercial and organizational awareness, ideally in a comparable industry.

•   Good communication skills.