Job Description

The Finance Business Partner (m/f/d) works closely with the Plant Manager and the site leadership team to drive key initiatives and help the Company achieve its goals and maximize returns on investments. The role uses data and analysis as a strategic asset to provide decision support, accurate planning, forecasting, operational productivity and investment analysis. This position will ensure accuracy and completeness in the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement planning and forecasting as well as timely variance analysis.

Your Role:

• Provide proactive business and financial analysis, identify important trends and perform detailed variance analysis to assist the operations in achieving its objectives.
• Make recommendations for potential improvements and promote the active use of financial data to drive business success and identify potential risks and opportunities
• Provide forward looking insights and value-added analysis to leadership regarding profitability, competitive landscape, products, etc.
• Drive Financial performance management, to include the strategic planning process, annual budgeting and communication of results.
• Lead the annual budgeting process and prepare monthly/ quarterly forecasts for the business, ensuring that they accurately reflect the business and that any gaps are identified early, and appropriate actions are taken to improve operational performance.
• Lead processes and initiatives to reduce primary working capital and maximize operating cash flow.
• Grow and mature business partners' capabilities to deliver insight resulting in enterprise value creation.
• Further develop product line reporting and product margin analysis.
• review costs, variances (GL, labor/overhead and departmental) and efficiency measures (asset & people utilization) with departmental leaders; ensure actions are in place to continuously improve, achieve budgets & forecasts.
• Meet all reporting deadlines with comprehensive, accurate, complete and responsive data.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the Regional Accounting Team and the Business Support Center, as well as other Corporate functions.

Your profile:

• You´ve got a Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting, or international equivalent and a minimum of 5 years Finance or Accounting experience.
• You gained solid experience with the SAP BPC - Business Planning and Consolidation tool, preferred with advanced Microsoft Office Skills (Excel). Know How about US GAAP is a plus.
• You bring strong analytical skills to the table and can multi-task in high pressure, time-constrained situations.
• You´ve got exceptional business and financial acumen with a drive for results.
• You´ve got strong interpersonal, collaboration and decision-making skills.
• You´re used to present your findings, data and reports equally in German and English.

We Offer

• Interesting and varied tasks in an international and innovative company
• A family-friendly company with an attractive working time regulation based on collective wage agreement of the metal and electrical industry and 30 days of vacation
• Vacation and Christmas bonuses as well as other additional benefits according to the collective agreement
• Medium-sized company, embedded in an international group of companies
• High safety standards
• Company canteen
• Company fitness via Well Pass
• Company bicycle leasing
• Corporate benefits
• Possibility of mobile working
• Possibility of a company pension plan
• Regular annual health check-ups and offer of flu vaccinations
• Good transport connections and sufficient free parking spaces