Senior Team Manager Product Costing & Inventory Accounting
The position
Looking for a role where you are leader in the GBS Center Product Costing and Inventory function and where the teams are responsible for activities across European countries in scope?
If you are keen to help us expanding our team and work with a group of stakeholders in the EMEA region and enhancing our ways of working, then this is your place to be!
Tasks & responsibilities
• As Senior Team Manager Product Costing & Inventory Accounting, you are responsible for overall lead of the workstream for around 30 European markets with up to 10 direct reports, including Team Manager(s), according to the company´s Our Behaviors and our Leadership principles, following internal and external compliance regulations
• You oversee and monitor the teams and overall Product Costing & Inventory Accounting processes execution for all service-receiving countries
• You are responsible to ensure that all accountabilities within countries in your scope of service are generated accurately, in due time, and cost-efficiently by the assigned employees.
• You are contributing on new deployments for all related systems, and you are coordinating the handling and improvement of diverse ERP-systems and linked financial tools
• You are responsible for the coordination month end and year end activities within the scope, collaboration and increasing exchange with different stakeholders
• You are responsible for workload management and the management of escalations, in particular processes to help improve them, properly assign tasks, and define actions for issue resolution
• You will work on projects and in the environment where we use targets to measure the service quality, ensuring process adherence in run mode
About our future employee:
You should be a motivated finance expert and understanding of different functional areas, speak English language min. on a C1 level. You have min. 8 years of professional experience in Accounting-to-Reporting / Record-to-Report, Controlling or similar in an industrial Manufacturing environment or a Shared Services environment that interact with industrial Manufacturing processes. A minimum of 5 years Leadership experience is a must.
Additionally, we are looking for:
• A Master’s Degree in Finance and Accountancy or similar
• Deep knowledge of ERP (SAP) and MS Office systems
• Extensive knowledge of accounting and manufacturing environment operations
• Cross-functional knowledge and expertise in the area of finance and accounting
• Excellent leadership skills in a complex environment with several stakeholders
• Experience in successfully forming and leading a diverse team would be a strong asset
• Strong communication, interaction and presentation skills within the national and international organization (within the local and international organization as well as to headquarters)
• Analytical and innovative thinking scope
• Intercultural competencies, ability to work in a team within international casted working groups
• Ability and duty of self-education