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Johnson Controls Senior Financial Analyst in Echt, Netherlands
What You Will Do: As Senior Finance Analyst within our Global Operations team, you will support the Europe and Middle-East Logistics and Distribution (L&D) organization by providing informative, relevant, and timely financial analysis on monthly performance, forward looking budgets and forecasts, and operational initiatives. You will be responsible for financial management reporting to provide insight into operational metrics and their financial impacts for 3 primary and 6 secondary distribution centers with $25 million of annual warehouse cost as well as $60 million of freight spending within the EMEA region.
During this year, there will be 2 ERP implementations to move the current legacy system to Oracle and SAP. As part of this, you will be a key team member to represent EMEA L&D in the Finance value stream to ensure correct financial processes and master data along with mapping current processes (JDE) to understand the current operating model and propose improvements.
How You Will Do It:
- Development of regional L&D plan and forecasts
You will control integrity of numbers submitted, supporting assumptions, and alignment to enterprise objectives
Communicate and explain forecast assumptions and methodology in a transparent manner to site and regional L&D leadership as well as Product Business Units
Prepare in-depth financial and operational analysis of regional L&D financial results
Completing financial bridges on actual to plan, forecast, and prior year
Ensuring accuracy and quality of data used by the regional L&D management team
Support a strong controls and governance environment
Assist with internal and external audits at distribution sites within the region
Take a pro-active approach to find gaps in financial controls and governance
Conduct balance sheet reviews in conjunction with shared service centers
Provide financial oversight to the cycle count processes, partner with site leaders to organize and coordinate the annual physical inventory counts where necessary
Provide financial leadership on cross functional projects including:
L&D locations and optimizing distribution points, inventory levels, and transportation Deployment of freight audit & pay processes Development of capital expenditure investments requests, reporting of spending, and validation of savings achievement
What We Look For:
Bachelors/Master Degree in finance & control (or local equivalent)
Solid industry experience in finance department of a large multi-national compan
Dutch and English Language skills at professional level
Proactive with continuous improvement attitude and ability to influence change.
Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, problem solving skills
Be able to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance colleagues and to build strong working relationships at all levels
Individual system skills, particularly Excel, OneStream, PowerBI and SAP.
What we offer :
We offer you a permanent contract with a competitive salary based on your work experience and level of knowledge. In addition, we offer an interesting package with secondary employment conditions, smartphone, laptop.
Our promise :
We support you in your professional development and offer you real career opportunities, after all, we would like to see you grow further within our company.
Who we are :
Johnson Controls is a world leader in smart buildings, creating safe, healthy and sustainable spaces.
For nearly 140 years, we have made buildings better and now we are transforming them again with our award-winning digital technologies and services. We are using artificial intelligence and data driven solutions to give you deeper insight into your building’s health, sustainability and performance. It’s changing the way we design, operate and maintain indoor environments and driving to a new era of autonomous buildings.
We deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, hotels, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive suite of connected solutions.
Johnson Controls offers the world’s largest portfolio of building technology, software and services. Supported by a team of more than 100,000 dedicated employees working across 150 countries, we’re helping customers achieve their sustainability goals and power their mission.