Orbia Advance - NW, DE
posted 16 days ago
About the position
Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life. You're purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia's Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose 'to advance life around the world' drives our entire global team. Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it's facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for 'good enough' when there's an opportunity to make life better. At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. We are currently looking for a Director Western Europe Finance to join our team at Germany, Wavin GmBH., an Orbia business. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.
Responsibilities
- Provision of Financial Management and Commercial Analysis to BU West businesses.
- Ensure that Financial best practice and internal Wavin Group Financial procedures are followed within the region.
- Provide Finance and Accountancy expertise in operational and commercial matters.
- Investigate and analyze areas of the region where it can improve profitability and efficiency; develop the principles of a business case to implement changes in the areas identified.
- Ensure good governance on financial transactions with adherence to approval and authority levels in all cases.
- Provide accurate and on time forecasting and reporting to the region/group on sales, costs and other expenditure (including capex).
- Lead the budget build up and monitoring process for the region in line with group timetables.
- Challenge and/or support key internal customers and influencers with regards to all budgeted and ad-hoc spend.
- Ensure that all financial controls for the company are met and adhered to at all time.
- Close control of all expense, overheads and CAPEX.
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree in accounting with a high level of analytical skills with CIMA qualification; preferred Master's degree.
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience (5+ years of experience in senior financial leadership position) required.
- Previous experience managing finance, accounting and control functions required.
- Fluent in English and German language.
- Experience navigating resolution of complex technical accounting issues.
- Strong proficiency in SAP/ ERP and/ or other financial consolidation and reporting software (SAP, SAC, HFM, Oracle).
- Proven record of building, growing the capabilities of and mentoring a strong, international team in a complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience driving organizational change through process and system improvement.
- Ability to demonstrate strong leadership, communication, networking and interpersonal skills.
- Good strategic thinking and planning skills.
- Experience of working for manufacturing or engineering business.
- Experience of working in multinational diverse organizations.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefit package.
- Opportunities for personal and professional development.
- A warm welcome and supportive work environment.
