With its announced growth strategy, Cicor complements a strong organic growth with bolt-on acquisitions. Cicor clearly wants to lead the ongoing consolidation in the industry and its high growth requires the establishment of strong and coordinated finance, operations and sales controlling capabilities across the network of 20 manufacturing sites. In this context we create a new role in the group controlling team, that will act as finance business partner to the EVP Global Operations and VP Global Sales, reporting to the VP Finance and Controlling.
Job description and responsibilities
- Act as a business partner to the global EVP Operations and VP Sales.
- Establish and maintain a global reporting system for ESG and operational KPIs. Manage the monthly reporting process for ESG and operational KPIs and prepare the reporting for the attention of the Group Management.
- Support strategic digitalisation initiatives such as the further development of the Global Sales CRM and the Global Quoting software.
- Analyse costs, pricing, variable contributions, sales results and the company's actual performance compared to the budget on a customer and manufacturing site level.
- Train and influence manufacturing sites to implement consistent processes and tools to improve comparability of results and identify opportunities to improve.
- Work closely with the sales team to analyse pricing plans, product costing and margins by customer.
- Support the definition of a procurement / supply chain ecosystem with SOPs and KPIs.
- Support the Sales and Operations team to reduce the operational Net Working Capital (tracking and action plans).
- Be part of the Group Finance team and contribute to the annual budget and mid-term planning process.
- Contribute to the post-merger integration of newly acquired businesses and potentially assist the team with M&A due diligence analysis.
Ideal skills and experience
- Higher education in finance
- Proven track record in operational controlling in an industrial manufacturing environment
- Experience with business intelligence tools and ERPs
- Solid knowledge of English and German
- Hands on mentality, enjoy working across disciplines in an international environment
We offer
- Flexible Working Hours and Home Office Options
- Market-Competitive Salary
- An Open and Dynamic Team
- Excellent Development Opportunities