Business Controller

Job description / Role

- Act as a real business partner and fact based challenger
- Support sales (e.g. sales case financial evaluation), project delivery, supply and other functions in Country specific financial matters
- Drive profitability, cost efficiency, working capital, cash flow and ensure that all deviations are analyzed and addressed
- Responsibility for the project controlling activities (jointly with PI)
- Secure accurate and timely reporting according to Group policies
- Coordinate financial planning process within the Country, focus on looking forward instead of backward
- Coordinate risk management actions within the Country
- Secure cash management in the Country in co-op with Corporate Treasury
- Monitor FX risk, customer risk, supplier risk in the Country, local hedging in regulated countries and related back office duties
- Ensuring the compliance with the local transfer pricing regulation in accordance with Corporate Tax instructions
- Day to day tax planning (depreciations, utilization of tax losses) based on instructions from Corporate Tax and in co-ordination with Global SSC
- Processing the monthly VAT and other local tax filings in coordination with Global SSC, if separately assigned
- Coordinating the local statutory and tax audit
- Final responsibility for correctness of P&L and Balance of legal entities in the Country (final signature)
- Providing expertise on local regulations to SSC and supporting SSC by acting as a key contact point with issues in local language

Requirements

- Business minded with ability to strategic and thinking
- Understanding of business (CAPEX + Service) and project controlling
- Understand the market situation and competitor landscape
- Ability to work in matrix organization
- Business controller needs to be well networked with other functions and departments
- Ability to work under time pressure and constant change
- Ability the see the big picture and link various actions to financial results
- Analytical thinking
- Profit oriented
- Competence management
- Ability to translate financial matters for non-financial persons

About the Company

Oil and Gas exploration is evolving on a global scale, putting the need for specialist talent at the top of the agenda. Its a vast, political, complex, heavily candidate-lead market with the emphasis on dynamic, multiple project opportunities, rather than the pre-recession security of long-term positions.

For businesses, the need to innovate in emerging, competitive markets has put the pressure on and with major oil companies selling off their assets to smaller independent operators, the games gained plenty of new players too.