Sr. Financial Analyst - Business Unit Controller

Company Description

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 402,600 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2021). The company generated sales of 78.7 billion euros in 2021. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. As a leading IoT provider, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility. Bosch is pursuing a vision of mobility that is sustainable, safe, and exciting. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living with products and solutions that either contain artificial intelligence (AI) or have been developed or manufactured with its help. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.”

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Job Description

Together with Business Unit leaders, the Senior Financial Analyst - Business Unit Controller is responsible for steering North American consolidated profitability (the full P&L) for 2-3 major business units and for performing other ad hoc analysis and financial reporting as business need requires.

Responsibilities will include:

• Act as business partner for multiple business units.  Provide consulting and recommendations to the regional business unit leaders to drive profitability
• Lead critical review and analysis of annual forecasts, budgets and monthly performance
• Present financial results including forecasts and business plan in order to drive optimal strategic results and be prepared to support conclusions through sound data analysis
• Act as North America Core Project Lead point of contact for any questions.
• Identify and execute process improvement opportunities, including automating existing reports and steam-lining processes to increase efficiency
• Be proficient in data mining and correlate multiple data points to identify, synthesize and recommend business decisions and direction
• Oversee regional and consolidated financial packages for local management (regional office), German and US corporate offices as well as management for other Bosch divisions
• Analyze and provide recommendations regarding potential risks and opportunities to the business
• Assist with presentations to support CFO and regional president
• Ad-hoc analysis as necessary

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent area of study required
• 5+ years’ experience in corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FPA) field, including budgeting, forecasting and analysis
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills (both written and oral)
• Excellent computer skills (MS Office, VBA, SQL, Essbase, Hyperion); report generation, statistical computation, creation of ad-hoc analyses.  Experience with database creation/management strongly preferred
• Must be eligible to work in the US without VISA sponsorship; not eligible for VA/VN assignment.

Additional Information

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

• Hybrid work schedule, split between the office and the comfort of your home according to operational needs, on average 3 days a week from home, 2 days in the office.