Business Controller
Carl Zeiss AG
Date de publication :
13 septembre 2024Taux d'activité :
100%- Lieu de travail :Shanghai
Financial planning & analysis
Monthly Financial Performance
- Lead monthly closing full P&L tracking, analysis, and estimate.
- Scope: full P&L (revenue and orders, GM, operating expense), headcount, and working capitals.
- Before monthly closing: proactively monitor financial status (revenue, GM%, Sales & Marketing expense) to have an estimate, identify potential risks & opportunities, propose actions to mitigate risks if needed.
- Liaise with Accounting, Logistic team and operation team to ensure financial result accuracy.
- Review monthly closing actual result through systems. Variance analysis identify the key drivers/special impact.
- Review provision balance and improve related process together with Accounting team.
- Monthly management reports: analyze business performance, comparison with target and prior year, and highlight the improvement field.
- Lead and corporate with cross functions to build up the rolling budget for the responsible Business.
- Scope : Full P&L and KPIs for the responsible business
- Owner of related budget template, process, and data accuracy. Continuous improvement on data visibility, variance analysis, and estimate accuracy.
- Build up budget with solid assumptions. Link financial budget with business key strategy & drivers, and with identified risks and opportunities.
- Ensure the whole process complete with high quality and within timeline.
Key financial items tracking, estimate, and drive cost resilience
- Monitor the development trend of related financial items, work with business team to continuous drive
process improvement, accurate estimate, and cost resilience
Commercial Finance
Financial Modeling Analysis
- Work closely with business team to build up financial modeling. Scenario analysis and in-depth key business drivers analysis.
- Identify information need, develop and prepare meaningful and insightful reports proactively to improve transparency and to facilitate decision making.
- Interpret the information with business manager and support them in the utilization of information, for example, support them in formulating recommendations for actions and measures and implementation
Other Business Analysis
- Deep dive on product profitability, full value chain margin analysis, and pricing performance, and work with business to propose the right pricing strategy.
- Standard Pricing/Special price analysis
- Special Business case/key account analysis based on request.
Key Strategy Projects
- Take responsibility in the key strategy projects and new initiates in each year. Training to business team and collect feedback for further improvements.
- Work closely with cross functions to set up/maintain correct master database.
- Ensure the whole projects complete with high quality and within timeline.
- Leverage proejcts to improve data visibility and better support/drive business performance
Process and Control enhancement
Lead related projects to drive process and control enhancement.
- Ensure the business segment is utilizing financial controls in line with corporate guidelines and coordinate with internal control team to enhance the processed and compliance for the segment.
- Help to implement demo policy once rolled out to China
- Technical competencies
- Strong analytical capability, variance analysis to find key drivers and propose suggested actions.
- Build financial module for planning & analysis in a fast pace, to support/influence business decision.
Quick learning capabilities. Be able to catch up and understand new &in-depth knowledge in a short timeline.
- Strong logical and clear-thinking ability.
- Business acumen. Link financial result with business insights/actions.
- In-depth knowledge in accounting knowledge, be familiar with IFRS standards and control process requirements.
- Personal competencies
- Strong ownership and commitment on delivering results within timeline.
- Proactive thinking, Persistent and strong problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently under tight deadlines, anticipate and react to frequently changing business conditions.
- Set high standard. Continuous-improvement mind-side to enhance and simplify work & process.
- Interpersonal competencies
- Listening skills, Open to criticism and others’ ideas, Team player
- Good at cross-function communication and influencing
- Be able to to explain complex financial data to non-finance people in non-technical language.
- Digital competencies:
- SAP ( FI, CO, MM, SD, CRM, etc.), BW, HFM knowledge is a must;
- Proficient in Excel skills and financial modeling knowledge.
- Experience with data mining, finance information automation, and Power BI is an advantage
- Language competencies:
Good English verbal and written.
Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:
Jiayan Wu (吴佳艳), Xiaojun Yang (杨晓君)Contact
Carl Zeiss AG