Senior Fin. Business Analyst, WU

What is the job about?

The Senior Finance Business Analyst supports the WU Division or assigned Regions with information, analysis, financial forecasting, revenue and expense budgeting. The position coordinates workflow among the entities relating to the segment or region. Duties include researching trends in financial performance of the division, cluster, region or other defined business dimensions. This position directly contributes to strategic decisions, providing a forward-looking and commercial view.

 

Your main responsibilities:

• Provides analysis of business drivers, financial performance improvement action recommendations, sales analytics, and other performance-based analytics.
• Prepares Budgets, Forecast and Strategic planning and helps securing that planning is supported by initiatives and corrective actions.
• Assists in developing business cases to support strategic initiatives, integrating business plans into planning and following up on Business Cases.
• Oversees full cost allocation and optimizes contribution to Group Profitability on relevant dimensions (segments, customers, products, projects etc.)
• Prepares material and participates in quarterly business reviews.
• Analyses and reports deviations between budgets, forecasts and actuals.
• Supports and collaborate with price management and discount structures.
• Oversees full cost allocation and optimizes contribution to Group profitability on relevant dimensions (segments, customers, products) for the WU Segment or the assigned Region.
• Super user in dashboard designs, deployment incl. periodic data sourcing.
• Supports in other financial metrics such as overdue, cash flow, WOC Debtors, etc.
• Support in ad-hoc analysis requested from the FBP.
• Participate in global business analysis projects.

 Your background

We imagine that you have:  

• BS degree in accounting or finance required.  Master’s degree a plus. 
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Finance role using SAP and TM1 is a plus
• Experience building  planning models, including strategy, budgets, and forecast cycles/programs.
• Manufacturing & Trading industry experience, cost accounting experience
• Fluency in English
• Commercial accounting, management accounting, cost accounting experience
• End-to-end value chain perspective, enabling collection of data from multiple source systems and translation into an aggregate dashboard.
• Ability to clearly and concisely summarize data and present conclusions to senior management.
• Strong analytical, creative thinking and problem-solving skills
• Extensive use of complex spreadsheets and datasets to consolidate and analyze data.
• Proven ability to work closely with Management.
• Style that is collaborative, service oriented and supportive.
• Proactive mindset with the ability to work independently and be self-sufficient.
• Good knowledge of SAP R3 FI, SD modules and BW
• Super user with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and PowerBI
• Knowledge in programming macros and visual basic

What’s in it for you?

What are your goals? Here at Grundfos it’s our mission to help you develop and fulfil your ambitions, both career and personal. We are guided by our six core values, and you’ll find that your fresh ideas will be welcomed and make a difference in everything from local to large-scale global projects. You’ll encounter colleagues from all over the world both as part of your daily work, supporting and all the while broadening each other’s cultural horizons.

 

In addition, your day-to-day benefits include:

• Flexible working hours; home office possibility and equipment; up to 3 days’ paid leave for volunteering
• Annual bonuses, parental support, internal well-being consultants and programmes, engaging team buildings 
• Diverse, inclusive environment with employee-led forums offering colleagues a safe place to connect and share openly
• Long-term career development with regular dialogue, as well as continuous learning and development opportunities.

 

Do you want to learn more?

If this job sounds appealing, please send your resume by clicking “Apply”.

 

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We look forward to hearing from you.