Business Controller

Are you ready to make your next career move to join our team as our Business Controller for our Pacific District?

What if you could support the Head of Business Controlling in analyzing and monitoring business performance for key districts, ensuring that leaders have the timely, accurate information needed to drive business actions?

Imagine proactively identifying solutions to improve key business metrics. Is this the level of impact you’re ready to make?

Picture yourself regularly reviewing business activities to ensure they align with the KONE Financial Control Model (FCM). Are you prepared to measure and report financial impacts according to KONE accounting standards?

Location of position: Flexible within California, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

JOB DUTIES

Analyze and report on the financial performance.

• Ensure that key reporting principles, internal controls, and correct costing parameters as defined by IAS, General Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), KARI, KAS and Financial Control Model (FCM) have been implemented and followed.

• Ensure the correctness of managerial reporting including volume reporting (OR and sales), financial reporting (RE50 and R80), performance KPI’s (P2P pre vs. post calc., hours/floor), contract profitability.

• Assure the correctness of managerial information (including order book, WIP, stock, provisions, accruals, etc.)

• Monitor, track and verify project sales, costs and CMII in the Order Book

• Analyze and understand the weekly/monthly actual performance of the business, as well as the deviations compared to planned (BUD /FCS) performance.

• Generate accurate monthly closeout reports and projections for profits and losses through facilitation of the plan management (PM) meetings.  Monitor, track, verify and update project costs and close projects within the guidelines of Close Out Policy

• Coordinate, develop and manage financial accounting within the region to fulfil internal and external requirements consistent with company policy.

• Provide analysis of key dependencies between the key operational processes, relationships, and metrics.

• Promote and ensure adequate finance understanding in the business organization as a member of the business controlling team.

• Provide actionable insights, key findings, and conclusions to business, not just numbers.

• Assist in evaluating industry, economic, financial, and market trends to forecast the organization’s short, medium, and long-term financial and competitive position.

• Provide general analysis that supports Business Lines, e.g., analyzing the opportunity funnel, and producing scenario analyses for versatile purposes (e.g., market demand vs. pricing in different scenarios).

Support the planning and forecasting processes.

• Provide financial parameters for the planning and forecasting processes to support the sales and cost planning by the business (e.g., inflation rate, foreign exchange rates, increases in wages and salaries, costs for corporate materials, milestone lead times)

• Validate and analyze the outcome and ensure a realistic level of figures.

• Ensure that plans and forecasts are consolidated and reported in a timely manner and that deadlines are respected.

• Support the development, implementation and attainment of an annual business plan, operating budget, and orders budget utilizing KONE business processe