Senior Finance Business Partner

An exciting, senior position has come up in an innovative, market leading business for a Senior Finance Business Partner. This role would suit a highly commercial professional with experience in partnering senior sales directors in order to drive business performance and assess new opportunities.

Responsibilities:

• New business controlling with the sales / market leader management for EMEA in the area of strategic planning for new business with a focus on incoming order planning in the project business and tracking in the sales tool
• Leading the monthly and yearly forecasting and budgeting process in EMEA
• Key user for Salesforce in the finance department and participation in the further development of the tools as well as creating the monthly incoming orders reports
• Reporting, consolidation and business modelling to support the sales organization
• Active support in the monthly incoming orders forecasts for EMEA and the defined sales markets with extended planning content (P&L from new business - incoming orders, sales, earnings).
• Maintenance and further development of models for efficient planning of new business with regard to sales development and earnings contribution in close cooperation with Project Controlling and Solution Development.
• Governance, control and calculation of the EMEA sales commission plan
• Track and analyse incoming orders performance and profitability analysis by market and promote decision making and performance tracking in vertical markets / industries.
• Special analysis as well as regular analysis of incoming orders in the company's business units as well as variance analysis for budget and forecast
• Development and reporting of pipeline analysis regarding the quality and dynamics of the forecasts to improve forecast predictability
• Forecast and Controlling of all Sales/Commercial (incl. Marketing, Business Development) and Solution Development Cost Centres in EMEA
• Support in the creation of presentations with regard to monthly, quarterly or annual reports, management presentations and the like.
• Leading, development and promoting employees / sales controllers in the regions to cover all EMEA markets
• Active support of the annual audit and, if necessary, interim audit

Requirements:

• Several years of practical experience in a comparable finance position with a focus on sales controlling
• Experience with Salesforce or CRM tools as well as planning tools, e.g. Oracle / Hyperion
• Very good MS Office knowledge, especially Excel, Word, PowerPoint and SAP knowledge
• Excellent communication skills, also across functional and geographical boundaries
• Willingness to travel internationally on a regular basis

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