Financial Controller

Voith - York, PA

Full-time - Mid Level

York, PA

10,001+ employees

Machinery Manufacturing

About the position

The Financial Controller at Voith Turbo is responsible for applying accounting principles to analyze financial information, report results, and forecast outcomes for various scenarios. This role supports local operations and finance teams in financial tasks and decision-making processes, reporting directly to the North America CFO. The position involves monitoring KPIs, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and conducting financial analyses to aid management decisions.

Responsibilities

• Monitor KPIs and identify the cause of any unexpected variances.
• Support month end processing in coordinating month end tasks with other departments, reconciliation reports, review of general ledger transactions and preparation and review of journal entries.
• Understand commercial terms of projects as specified in contracts.
• Perform regular reviews of invoice accuracy and conformity with IFRS accounting standards.
• Review subledgers such as accounts receivable, accounts payable and inventory.
• Support in development and performing controlling tasks including production controlling, overhead cost controlling, purchasing controlling and inventory controlling.
• Raise early flags for any potential risks as well as opportunities identified in the review processes.
• Support internal controls with specific reporting on individual risk areas.
• Conduct financial analysis and prepare management presentations to support decision makings of Management - Make or buy analysis, Functional analysis, calculating business cases.
• Support month-end and year-end closing processes by preparing financial statements, account reconciliations, inventory reconciliation, overhead analysis, and supporting schedules against a defined deadline.
• Support Senior Financial Controller and CFO with special projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance; an advanced degree would be a plus.
• A minimum of 3-6 years of Accounting/Finance experience with a good basis of Accounting/Financial reporting.
• Knowledge of Accounting Standards (US GAAP & IFRS).
• Previous experience in project-business or manufacturing environment would be preferred.
• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics Navision and/or SAP would be a plus.
• Ability to work well as part of a team as well as maintain individual workload and manage deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including ability to analyze large amounts of data and communicate/present findings.
• Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily direction from manager to accomplish objectives.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment during certain business cycles (planning, month-end and year-end close) against a defined timeline.

Nice-to-haves

• Advanced degree in Accounting/Finance.
• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics Navision and/or SAP.