Your role and responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead financial processes and transactions to optimize financial performance within the factory/site. Each day, you will support effective business decisions by monitoring, analyzing, and interpreting financial data to evaluate various business alternatives. You will also showcase your expertise by recommending the most appropriate business solutions.

This role is contributing to the EL smart power business in Xiamen China.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Serves as the key partner to MU managers in determining strategy for their area of responsibility and developing a global business model, aligning with wider strategy, implementing them, and adjusting, as needed.
• Translates the finance strategy into business plans and establishes measurable targets.
• Drive operation excellence and continuous improvement together with business.
• Oversees the business planning and forecasting process for their area of responsibility.
• Monitors progress achieved and provides insight and analysis to support operational decision-making.
• Evaluates financial implications of business decisions, builds scenarios, and recommends actions to mitigate risks.
• Drives appropriate cost structure, productivity optimization, and capital efficiency, with special focus on product/business line profitability, product costing, production variances, over/under-absorption analysis/inventory analysis, etc.
• Ensures the quality of financial data and business information in line with defined standards and financial closing schedules.
• Establishes and oversees processes and tools necessary to obtain transparent and reliable financial data and business information.
• Define and implement internal controls on financial and non-financial operations
• Ensures timely and efficient communication with relevant internal and external customers to identify areas of improvement, work quality and efficiency for their area of responsibility.
• Defines and implements internal controls regarding financial and non-financial operations.
• Liaise with external and internal auditors.
• Ensure risk management processes are consistently implemented in their area of responsibility.
• Manage, motivate and develop team. Build a strong and sustainable finance team.

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and
manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division’s technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division’s portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world’s largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division’s ABB Ability™ Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.