- Overall entity financial controlling, which can be grouped into below responsibilities:
Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Ensure compliance with group accounting policies for the month-end closing as done by the SSC Finance Account to Report team
- Perform in-depth legal entity review of financial statements to ensure data integrity and provide sign-off for final submission to Group reporting for consolidation. Perform analysis of account balances, ensuring compliance with Vestas Financial Guidelines
- Provide accurate, fact-based, and action-oriented performance reporting, with a keen focus on Balance Sheet (B/S) and Profit and Loss (P&L). Finalize and review commentaries that explain significant variances and trends, enabling informed decision-making
- Resolve more complex accounting issues and ensure proper accounting treatment on all line items in the financial statements
Financial Controlling
- Serve as the point of contact to the Regional CFO for the overall entity financial statements reasonableness and compliance
- Conduct a pre-close meeting to ensure pre-month-end issues are identified and addressed. Facilitate regular review sessions with Finance operations - including Accounts Payable (AP), Order to Cash (OtC), Record to Report (RtR), Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), and Business Finance - to ensure all legal entity tasks are completed in full compliance with financial standards and guidelines
- Perform thorough balance sheet controlling to ensure alignment with P&L and related accounts, actively monitor discrepancies, and implement timely corrective actions in close collaboration with business finance
- Consult business controllers/business partners in cases of specific judgements around accruals, intercompany as part of monthly financial controlling
Internal Controls and Compliance
- Address any inquiries from Group reporting during consolidation and any complex audit inquiries, if any
- Conduct and perform regular controls and compliance checks and ensure sufficient documentation is in place to support group and local audit requirements
Leadership and Development
- Ensure group accounting policies are followed regarding General Ledger accounting and closing tasks and coordinate communication and implementation across the SSC Finance organization
- Act as a partner for the rest of Finance within Group and Region to support the development of new concepts, processes, etc. to continuously improve the value-add of Financial Controlling to the organization
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in accountancy/ finance/ business management or related area. Certifications (i.e., CPA, CMA, MBA, CIA, RCA, CTT, etc.)
- At least 8-10 years of relevant working experience in finance, particularly accounting operations, controlling, financial analysis, and reporting, or any equivalent finance functions. Auditing background from Big 4 accounting firms
- Knowledgeable on International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) or Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications i.e. Excel, PowerPoint, Word. Knowledge in other advanced tools such as Power BI, SAC, Macros, Data mining tools, and the like
- Practical experience with ERP systems; SAP and SAP-BI skills required. Experience in S/4 Hana
- Working experience in shared services set-up or with other cultures is required. Shows flexibility towards work shift schedule, depending on the region catered to
