Sales Business Controller

Job Type Full-time Description

    

Job Title: Sales Business Controller 

Department: Finance

Reports to: CFO

Classification: Exempt

Location: Must reside in the US

Travel: Travel Required

Job Summary:

The Sales Business Controller will contribute key financial metrics to assist with reaching the overall operational and financial goals for the Sales area. Through fulfilling all the main responsibilities, this role will support the execution of key activities and ensuring the performance according to expectation.

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

• none

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Proactively provide period end reports, analysis opportunities and areas for improvement,
• Prepares the annual operating budget, rolling forecasts, and ad hoc business plans.
• Monitor expenses and ensure alignment with dietary constraints,
• Participates in the development of business strategies and plans, including performance management, modeling, analysis, and comments on financial implications.
• Responsible for the follow-up on business plan implementation actions and monitoring the financial results vs plans.
• Provide recommendations & drive decision making. 
• Provides coordination with GWS Tool Group back-office financial services to ensure effective service levels.
• Work closely with sales, marketing, finance, engineering and operations team to align efforts and achieve common goals
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making within the organization.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance Data analytics or a related field, with 2 to 3 years of Business Controlling experience in a manufacturing environment
• An excellent understanding of financial processes, reporting, and accounting, and a high level of computer proficiency, especially in Excel and PowerPoint.  
• Employees must read, write, and speak English fluently.
• Ability to deal effectively with internal stakeholders on local, regional and global levels.
• Experience working in a matrix environment.
• Working with continuous improvements is a natural part of your character and you feel comfortable searching for information, identifying small and large solutions, and challenging the norm.  
• You are active and future oriented. 
• You are flexible, react well to change, and remain calm in the face of challenges
• Well-developed ability to deliver results under pressure and balance multiple priorities with ease.  
• Employees must be legally eligible to work in the United States.

Required Skills/Abilities: 

• You possess high integrity and self-motivation, knowledgeable and skilled in finance and profitability management.  
• You have a well-developed business sense and judgment. 
• You can work closely with relevant stakeholders across the organization at all levels in order to proactively identify opportunities and threats; based on these, develop and implement fit-for-purpose actionable and anchored actions. 
• You can balance between supporting and constructively challenging peers to act. 
• Understands the Global SMS Strategy and the Global Sandvik Coromant Strategy and translates them into the day to day activities of the team.
• Acts as a change leader, and keeps his/her own team motivated during the change process.
• Conducts business in an ethical manner, in compliance with Sandvik anti-corruption policy.

Physical Requirements: 

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• Must be able to travel.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other factors prohibited by law.