Finance Business Partner Equipment ECA

Your opportunity

Reporting to the VP Business Control Supply Chain and EPI, you will act as Finance Business Part-ner to the EVP EPI on the activities related to the performance of Equipment, providing the right financial insights by challenging and building within cross functional teams the relevant action plans to increase Sidel performance understanding and profitability.

Your Mission

Business Partnership:

• Act as a trusted advisor to regional leaders, providing financial guidance and recommendations.
• Foster collaboration between finance and business to achieve common company objectives.
  
  

Customer Portfolio Management:

• Analyze customer portfolio to identify the business opportunities and risk and share the insights with the regional leaders.
• Screen competitive landscape and market trends to identify opportunities and threats. 
• Collaborate with the central Equipment (EP&I) and marketing teams to ex-plore sales potential by customer group, country, installed base profile, type of products….
  
  

Strategic Planning:

• Work closely with regional organizations to implement group strategies inside the region: understand strategic objectives and build financial plans to support them.
• Assist in long-term financial planning, including regional organizational and commercial set ups, analysis, and investment evaluations.
• Cascade and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to regional goals such as pricing, excellence in execution, productivity customer satis-faction, …), Equipment contribution (sales recognitions, margin, productivity, and operational costs…) and cash flow.
• Build financial models to support decision-making, scenario analysis, and in-vestment evaluations.
• Evaluate the financial feasibility of new projects and initiatives.
  
  

Risk Management:

• Financial risks linked with the business are assessed, and risk mitigation solu-tions are developed.
• Keep up to date on market and industry changes that may have an impact on the company's financial stability.
  
  

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Collaborate on yearly budgets and quarterly / monthly forecasts and outlooks in collaboration with department heads and managers.
• Monitor budget adherence and provide insight, comments, and action plans in front of budget deviations. 
• Collaborate with different functions and present an action plan to maximize deliverables and profitability.  
• Propose adjustments to forecasts based on changing market conditions and business needs and deliver action plan to optimize on deliverable and profita-bility.
  
  

Financial Analysis and Reporting: 

• Analyze financial data, including budgets, forecasts, and actual performance, to identify trends and variances Supported by central FP&A and regional pro-ject controlling teams.
• Prepare financial reports and presentations in collaboration with Central FP&A for management, highlighting key insights and recommendations to regions and the central organization.
• Conduct a cost and profitability analysis in partnership with business opera-tions to find opportunities for cost optimization, revenue growth and cash flow improvements.
  
  

Cost Control:

• Identify cost optimization opportunities and work with operational teams to put them into action.
• Monitoring and controlling operational expenses to ensure budget and cost targets are met.
• Collaboration with the operations team to optimize the utilization and cost ab-sorption of direct resources housed in the region.  
  
  

Compliance and Governance:

• Ensure compliance by various function in the region with Sidel PPG’s
• Ensuring overall governance of the Equipment business in the region.
• Support internal and external audits by providing necessary financial data and documentation.
  
  

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities to improve financial procedures and systems for in-creased efficiency and accuracy.  Share recommendations with the Central teams (Services, Group Finance and Group Controlling).
• Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies in fi-nance and controlling.
  
  

Your Profile

• Master degree or equivalent in Finance
• A Minimum of 10 years’ experience in Business controlling
• Strong controlling technical skills, solid knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) accounting principles
• Advanced knowledge of controlling processes & business planning principles
• Strong experience in SAP FI/CO (Finance / Controlling) in an international and industrial group
• Advance practice of IS Tools including any other digitalization tools (Qliksense, Power BI...)
• Strong interpersonal skills, team player
• Ability to lead in a matrix organization
• Result orientation
• Fluent in English, written and spoken