Nz Finance Controller

**NZ Finance Controller - Maternity Leave position**:
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We are currently seeking a Finance Controller to join our dynamic team to cover a maternity leave position. As a Local Marketing & Sales Controller, you will be supporting business goals and initiatives by ensuring controlling and financial capabilities are in place for business operations and growth and represent business needs and provide consistent reporting and finance analytics. Reporting to Electrification Smart Buildings and Smart Power Marketing & Sales Controller, Australia, and Oversight Countries, you will be responsible to build partnership with Local Marketing & Sales Manager and maintains strong relationships with local, regional and global stakeholders. This position is a maternity leave position reports to the Electrification Business Controller and is based in Notting Hill, Victoria.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Providing active finance support and improvement actions to ensure achievement of Marketing & Sales business targets, such as demand orders & revenues, front end cost to serve, Division & product group mix, segment mix, front end inventory, overdues, EBITA, cash flow, price management, rebates and commercial operations effectiveness
- Understanding the business drivers, the current and long-term strategy and identifies opportunities for finance to add value to the business and set and implement finance strategy in the organization in line with corporate and relevant divisions strategies covering expertise, competencies, and organization design
- Ensuring high quality of financial data and business information in line with defined standards and financial closing schedules and performing analysis, review, and proposal for actions to management supporting business performance
- Driving appropriate cost structure, productivity optimization, and capital efficiency, manage and monitor the cash flow and improve net working capital. Enforcing corporate and relevant division specific finance policies, and applicable local reporting and filing requirements
- Ensuring accuracy and effectiveness of commercial processes including market price positioning, rebate and discount schemes, quotation, sales price management, credit, and collection management in the assigned countries. Identifies, accounts for, and manages potential risks in the country relating to frame and other contractual agreements with particular focus on integrity and compliance on distributor and channel partners and engages with commercial operations and regional distribution centers in the country/region
- Ensuring timely and efficient communication with all relevant local internal customers to identify and discuss issues for improvement of operations, work quality and efficiency for area of responsibility
- Maintaining proper audit trail and documentation for future tax/internal/external audits and reviews

**Your background**:

- Degree in Finance, Economics, Business or equivalent
- 5 years' + experience in finance experience in a global matrix multinational environment
- Broad finance functional knowledge and expertise, including full range of functional finance skills: finance controlling, planning, FP&A
- Intercultural sensitivity and effectiveness - function well across cultures & act as facilitator between cultures
- Teamwork & collaboration - actively demonstrate teamwork & facilitate collaboration
- Strong partnering, project management, consultation, collaboration, change management and influencing skills
- Extensive experience working on contemporary Finance enterprise resource management (ERP) systems (e.g. SAP, etc.)

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