Your Role
The National Finance Controller manages the business performance by acting as a business partner to the assigned Business Unit / Functional Unit, challenging the status quo and analysing the past to shape the future. The Controller supports business strategy development, develops and maintains risk management concepts, monitors tactical execution, disseminates financial knowledge and provides visibility using all available data to enable effective business decisions.
Your Responsibilities
- Perform and lead business reviews including follow up and corrective actions
- Monitor business performance and continuously identify proactive measures to increase profitability and productivity and to mitigate potential exposure to the results
- Develop and propose proactively restructuring concepts, cost saving initiatives or similar improvement plans
- Drive Business Investment Applications (BIA) process and challenge status quo
- Make use of existing networks and resources as much as possible when implementing solutions to identified risk areas.
- Establish regular reporting in line with BU / FU Corporate targets and agreed KPI measures using corporate financial data warehouses and tools
- Continuously seek for standardization and automation
- Provide financial guidance and governance in line with company’s accounting principles
Your Skills and Experiences
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Economics
- At least 2-3 years of professional experience in a Finance Controller role
- Knowledge of the logistics industry is an additional benefit
- Fluency in verbal and written English
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Highly analytical mindset, entrepreneurial thinking
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Willingness to travel
Good Reasons to Join
We offer an employee-friendly environment for you to develop and grow to become a skilled transportation logistics professional in a challenging and fast-developing company with a competitive salary and opportunities for further development within the Kuehne + Nagel Group. If like us, you put customers at the heart of everything you do, you can expect to be rewarded with a full package of benefits on top of a salary that grows with you as you grow in our business.