Based in Ovar, Portugal, as a member of the central HQ controlling team, your primary focus will be sales controlling. A close collaboration with the other HQ sales controllers and the local finance responsible within Europe will be key. Additionally, you will also support the industrial controller of the Stow Ovar factory.
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Coordinate monthly group PoC (Percentage of Completion) project reporting for a selection of selling entities:
- Validate monthly SAP ERP/BI extractions for project valuation
- Perform sanity checks on project data and pro-actively correct / liaise with business partners throughout the Stow group
- Distribute and support the valuation to be performed in local Sales entities
- Consolidate and interpret PoC valuation
- Improve and further automate tools (functional business partner)
- Coordinate group monthly forecasting/backlog process for the same selling entities:
- Validate monthly SAP ERP/BI extractions for project forecasting (CCM + PoC)
- Perform sanity checks on forecast data
- Distribute and support the forecasting to be performed in local Sales entities
- Consolidate and interpret forecasting/backlog valuation
- Improve and further automate tools (functional business partner)
- Analyze monthly local and group results:
- Identify drivers for topline and margin losses versus budget / rolling forecast
- Ability to deep dive into individual PoC + CCM projects
- Link purchasing / production impacts with projects and entities
- Further develop inhouse controlling tools (SAP BI, Power query, etc.)
- Execute specific sales controlling activities in alignment with HQ sales controlling colleagues
- Linking of projects, calculation of bonusses/kickbacks, etc.
- Support industrial controller Ovar plant
- Execute weekly/monthly screening on waste, output, etc.
- Validate incoming intercompany sales/production orders
- Compare estimated & actual plant costing and interpret variances
- Validate commercial costing parameters (local plant + mixed factories)
- Ad hoc analysis on request of local or central management