Manager Group Financial Planning

The Villeroy & Boch Group with its Ideal Standard brand is one of the world's leading manufacturers in the ceramics and lifestyle sector. With our innovative and stylish products from the Dining & Lifestyle and Bath & Wellness segments, we have been creating moments and rooms to feel good in since 1748. Our success is based on the passion, design expertise and innovative strength of our more than 13,000 employees in 42 countries.

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Summary of Job Description:

The Lead of Group Financial Controlling is a key role to help us transition from a regional/local full-finance scope to a distributed functional organization. The group responsible for ensuring the integrity of our Legal entity Financial Controlling.

Job description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Business
  • Financial Reporting tasks: Cross-check monthly legal entity results with a special focus on “non-functional” cost elements like Admin Overheads and other expenses/income, provide comments and insights on unusual trends to respective divisional P&L management, monitoring of appropriate equity levels
  • Financial Planning: Distribute Top-down plan to legal entities for transfer pricing and impairment purposes incl. upload into central systems, Provide input to the direct cash forecasting, Impairment testing
  • Safeguard proper processing of intercompany relationships: Service Level Agreements, intercompany pricing according to an entity’s role in the V&B business setup, triggering intercompany charging/financing
  • Closely work with the Financial shared service centers and the entities in the markets
  • Together with the SSC prepare and present annual Balance sheet review meetings and contribute to the annual report
• Corporate Governance:
  • Contribute to Internal Controls and Risk Management exercises for non-functional elements.
  • Audits: Secure appropriate financial participation in local internal and external audits
  • Coordinate and partially answer requests on statistic bureaus
  • Setting-up commercial handbook together with legal to ensure clear authorizations/approval rights
• Organization:
  • Complete analysis and own concept on Financial Controlling in our functional Finance organization.
  • Start with B&W in Europe and consider a possible later expansion to D&L, MENA and APAC
  • Establish and develop Financial Controlling team and transition tasks from the markets to the centrally led organization
  • Establish, train and manage Finance Officer Community
  • Support the transition from non-finance related tasks of current Finance Directors to the appropriate function.
  • Drive projects on legal entity simplification and adjustments to our corporate legal entity setup
• People Management and Organizational Development:
  • Lead a team of five associates, developing their functional and soft skills. Be an integral part of our functional talent development program.
  • Identify ways to become more effective and efficient in our group wide controlling activities.
  • Contribute in systems projects (e.g. S/4HANA) on core finance processes.
  • Secure financial data integrity on structure/master data changes (e.g. profit center hierarchy changes)