As a Junior Business Controller, you are jointly responsible for the reporting, financial support & budgeting of a department within the Circle Product & Technology.
Working in the Finance-team
As a Junior Business Controller, you are jointly responsible for the reporting, financial support & budgeting of a department within the Circle Product & Technology.You will perform analysis and create insights to support the business in their daily operations as well as decision making.This includes.:
- Contribute to the monthly financial close, including variance analyses
- Analyses of KPIs /OKRs
- Product and business analyses
- Budgeting and forecast updates
- Financial assistance with contract negotiations
The information and advice, made available by the controllers, are used by the SLT and the various department heads to make strategic decisions.
Concretely, this translates into the following tasks:
- Ensure the correct content of the budgets and forecasts in collaboration with the business partners
- Responsible for all operational activities, coordination & follow up on the monthly closing for your assigned sub-department, working closely with your supervisor/colleagues
- Preparing monthly reporting (explaining variances versus budget/forecast, following up on key KPIs, operational analysis,) for:
- Finance as input for the closing meeting with all controllers and FP&A team
- The business to be able to advise the budget owners around the efficiency of his/her activities and processes as well as around cash flow optimization
- Supervise compliance with (financial) procedures on purchasing, ordering, opex/capex split, partly through approval of POs/invoices
- Preparing and maintaining spreadsheet models for specific analyses, closing activities,
- Reviewing business cases for investment requests in your assigned sub-department
- Following up on ad hoc inquiries