Business Controller at KONE Corporation

Business Controller to manages the day-to-day business controlling activities of the Unit. They ensure KONE business activities are conducted in accordance with the KONE Financial Control Models (FCM), and that financial impacts are measured and reported following the KONE accounting standards and reporting instructions. The Business Controller supports the definition of local financial policies and ensures that the adherence to both local and global policies is controlled

Responsibilities And Key Activities

• Perform or organize the execution of the business controlling tasks as defined in KONE FCM
• Analyze the organization’s business activities and advise management on financial matters and impacts of the business transactions and decisions.
• Support functional or operational area managers in forecasting the future results of their business.
• Collect, compile, verify, and analyze financial information and economic indicators so that senior management has accurate and timely information for making strategic and operational decisions on, for example, acquisitions, investments, capital expenditure, divestitures, mergers, or the sale of assets.
• Evaluate industry, economic, financial, and market trends to forecast the organization’s short, medium and long-term financial and competitive position.
• Provide technical expertise and advice on financial issues to functional or operational areas managers to help them develop revenue and expense budgets, understand financial reports, and manage their financial responsibilities.
• Assure the correctness of managerial information including Lift in Service portfolio, maintenance contracts profitability, maintenance business KPI
• Develop and implement annual unit budgets in line with global budgeting guidelines.
• Maintain strong connections with other Finance colleagues within KONE to share best practices and to understand current and future trends.
• May lead, direct, evaluate and develop a team of Finance professionals to achieve established goals.

Skills, Education And Experience

• Professional qualifications as appropriate
• SAP and Beacon, or similar application, working knowledge
• Master’s or Bachelor degree in Finance or relevant field.
• At least 4 years of professional experience
• Good English skills