Required Competencies
• Bachelors in Finance, Accounting, or equivalent degree required. Masters level preferred.
• 3-5+ years of related finance/accounting experience; ability to organise and manage multiple priorities simultaneously; strong analytical skills
• Demonstrate ability to identify and implement change, adhere to deadlines, provide value-added analyses to assist finance leaders to make informed decisions
• Must have knowledge and understanding of financial and business management principles with the ability to communicate and prioritize business requirements. Must have extensive knowledge of P&L, forecasting and understand the impact cyclical trends.
• High intercultural competence
• Fluent (spoken and written) in English and German. Knowledge of one other major European language (Spanish, Dutch, French, Italian) will be an advantage.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive and solution oriented approach toward business issues
• Ability to build rapport, cultivate working relationships and drive collaboration across teams
• Resourceful self-starter who can work with minimal supervision
• Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement in a dynamic environment, striving to exceed expectations
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; comfort in operating within a dynamic, complex and matrixed organisational structure; ability to establish credibility in processes and people throughout the organisation by demonstrating Tyco Values
• Advanced Excel (Macros, modeling, pivot tables, and lookups), Power Point, Word, Outlook
• Oracle Essbase Spreadsheet - Experience is a must, highly efficient
• Oracle ERP - Experience with GL and AP
• Oracle Hyperion - Experienced
• Baan – Experienced
• Crystal Reports - Experienced
• High travel requirement during transition
Desirable Traits
• Business acumen (Tyco preferred)
• Relationship building, team player
• Customer focus
• Displays and champions integrity and trust
• Action oriented
> Responsible for driving cost center, management reporting and data mining, ops analytics, commissions, and sales/commercial support activities.
> Strong analytical skills required.
> High level of problem solving ability required
> Excellent interpersonal skills required
> Self-directed, with minimal guidance
> Medium level of interactions with multiple finance and operational business partners
> Demonstrate ability to identify and implement change, adhere to deadlines, provide value-added analyses to assist finance leaders to make informed decisions
> Bachelor’s Degree in either Finance/Accounting or equivalent. Masters level preferred.
> 3-5+ years of related finance/accounting experience. Accustomed to working in a highly-matrixed organization. Familiar with Tyco operational business models and structure.
> ~50% during first year, afterwards ~15%. Mainly international travel to Continental Europe
Major Responsibilities % of time
• Responsible for driving regional sales/commercial support activities, including: budgeting/forecasting and projections, customer / product line profitability and margin analysis, pricing support, quota setting, and vertical market support
• Provide regional cost center analysis support, including: cost center analytics, budgeting/ forecasting, functional support, investment support, restructuring packages, REBC’s, and CER’s
• Responsible for driving regional FP&A management reporting and data mining and manipulation, including: utilisation of standard management reports, ops review packages, automated standard reports, geographic reports, vertical market reports, revenue and margin dashboards and customer profitability reports
• Responsible for supporting regional operational analytics and support activities, including key business drivers: service analysis, installation analysis, sourcing analysis and tracking, labour mix rates, burden rate reporting and analysis, and working capital
• Responsible for regional commissions activities, including: commission calculations, analytics, and payroll submission
• Perform ad hoc business case analysis, create financial models, and manipulate and analyse data, identifying trends to support the growth of the business
• Apply professional judgment based on the analysis of quantitative data and information. Screens, categorises and resolves data integrity issues
• Maintain close alignment with all customers of the FP&A Support Services teams to ensure their requirements are being met (i.e. Cost Center Analysis team, Management Reporting, Operational and Commercial Support teams, Business Partners etc.) 60%
• Maintain basic understanding of business operations/environment within the team in order to provide Operating Review commentary
• Drive the creation and maintenance of process documentation for activities which reside within team in order to drive standardisation and best practices
• Support the optimization of the FP&A organization including centralization of activities from Continental Europe countries to Cork, Ireland, driving continuous process improvement and participating in special projects (e.g. Essbase implementation) 20%
• Perform various ad-hoc financial analysis
• Embrace a business focused and results oriented team within FP&A Support Services 20%
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