For our Site in Ettlingen we are looking now for a Finance Business Partner Analyst (M/F/T).

The position works closely with the plant management team in driving key initiatives and helping the company to achieve its goals and maximize returns on investment. The Business Partner Analyst will use data as a strategic asset to provide decision support, accurate planning and forecasting, and operational productivity and efficiency analysis. Further, this position will work with the project management organization to establish stronger financial controls on the large, highly engineered projects going through the site.

Your tasks:

Be part of the team that establishes process for tracking and controlling large project financials.

Establish Project Accounting processes in Ettlingen to align with other Flowserve sites

Work with embedded service center to establish enhanced reporting processes and procedures

Analyze financial results and identify and communicate deviations to plan and forecast. Make recommendations for potential solution and improvements. Promote the active use of financial data to drive business success, and continuously identify and make visible all potential risks and opportunities.

Provide trusted finance decision support, including regular and ad hoc analysis to key stakeholders. Deliver insight into trends, risks, and opportunities.

Actively collaborate with accounting, shared service, treasury, and tax peers to ensure finance & accounting processes are executed and the function achieves its objectives. Seek out ambiguity and clarify. Identify areas lacking role clarity and provide solutions, escalate where required.

Monthly Preparing of Sales and Financial Reports for other entities

Support quarterly / 90 day forecast and monthly outlook processes.

Ensure forecast output is timely and thoroughly delivered.

Identify and develop key actions in partnership with management team required to achieve forecast (addressing gaps in performance).

Strike a pragmatic balance between risk and opportunity, ensuring an acceptable variance to forecast in actual.

In collaboration with management team, ensure actions are clearly identified, continuous improvement projects executed and delivered to meet objectives. Provide regular updates on performance and actions to achieve objectives.

Your profile:

Finance experience in an industrial manufacturing environment preferably as a finance business partner

US GAAP experience

Project Accounting and Percentage of Completion experience

Experience in operational finance

Strong analytical skills

Strong computer skills in MS platforms

Good written and verbal communication skills.

Experience working for multi-national companies

Experience with integrated ERP and BPC is desirable

BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 3-5 years relevant experience

We offer:

Interesting and varied tasks in an international and innovative company

A family-friendly company with a flexible working time system (possibility of partial mobile working) according to the collective wage agreement of the metal and electrical industry

Vacation and Christmas bonus as well as the possibility of a company pension scheme

Medium-sized company, embedded in an international group of companies.

Good transport connections

Internal and external training opportunities as well as language courses

Detailed familiarization with our procedures and processes. An experienced mentor is at your side during the induction period.