GOCC Controller at Wartsila Eastern Africa Ltd

As GOCC Controller your work will focus on these responsibilities:

• Pro-actively supports and communicates with agreement and project managers, financial controllers, function and business controllers and other relevant stakeholders
• Support operational controlling of the organization to achieve KPI’s, i.e. agreements changes, margin analysis, training on Wartsila procedures, order book quality, other.
• Provide business insight to management for decision making
• Manages, analyses and ensures the data quality in business functional area to ensure the correct financial reporting and following of Wärtsilä guidelines 
• Provides feedback to the organization on ways of working and helps to resolve operational gaps in the organisations’ processes and actively challenge convention where there could be a need to improve processes.
• Acts as an expert within own area of expertise, trains others and actively seeks to improve processes and tools.
• Takes an active role in supporting various stakeholders and asking questions to understand and improve the processes related to own responsibility area
• Is responsible for the period end closing activities and internal controls reporting in own responsibility area
• Enables standard business reporting to management and to function controlling related to performance measures defined for agreement processes

To be successful in this role, we expect you to have:

• Bachelor/Master degree, preferably in Finance and Accounting
• Minimum 5 years of Finance exp
• Experience in SAP FI/CO/CS/PS
• Good skills in other reporting tools such as QlikView, Power BI and MS Excel
• Strong knowledge of IFRS and international accounting principles
• Change management skills, driving changes as requested. Forward thinker who isn’t afraid to challenge and has progressive attitude towards tasks and goals
• Good reporting and analytical skills, being able to explain complex issues in a simple way
• Ability to work both independently and in a team 
• Ability to work efficiently in a virtual team and communicate across teams and functions
• Ability to see and explain complex issues in a simple way
• Detail-oriented and able to work shifting priorities.
• Advance English, both in written and spoken