Petrochemicals
(Global market leader in styrene monomer, polystyrene and styrene
specialities; Revenue in 2014: EUR 5.4 billion; 3,100 employees worldwide)
Group Financial Controller, Teamleader
- Direct reporting to the Global Controller
- Teamlead (2 employees)
- Consolidation and analysis of month-, quarter- and year-end close of the
Styrolution entities in accordance to IFRS and corporate accounting
policy (approx. 40 entities in the consolidation group, spread over three
regions)
- Tasks during the Year End Close: Impairment Testing; Global Tax Rate
Analysis; Coordination of Lower of Cost or Market Analysis; global
Deferred Tax Analysis with Tax department; Consolidated Notes
(Konzernanhang); Management Discussions and Analysis (MD&A,
Konzernlagebericht); etc.
- Close collaboration with Business Controlling (Financial Planning), Tax,
Pension, Treasury, Corporate Finance, etc.
- Project Lead for the Close Cycle Reduction (reduction of the closing by
two working days already achieved)
- Involvement in various finance projects, e.g. Refinancing, Restructuring,
Risk and Controls Testing, etc.
- Member of Change Advisory Board (CAB). This group discusses global and
local IT-demands and decides about the order in which IT-demands are
being implemented. This role includes the coordination across the
regions and functions of IT-demands with a global financial impact
- Global coordination and preparation of our monthly reporting in order to
align with the new reporting requirements of our new 100%-shareholder
(uploading and processing of our financial into Hyperion Financial
Management)
- Continuous improvement of the global accounting manual according to
IFRS and company guidelines
- Point of contact for the group financial and tax auditors
- Upgrade of SAP BPC from version 7.5 to 10.0