Financial Analyst FC&A (Contractual 12 Months)

Job Description

Role Overview:You will be joining a dynamic and changing environment at dsm-firmenich as an experienced Financial Controller. Your main responsibility will be managing the financial activities of legal entities impacted by the separation. This includes ensuring timely and accurate execution of finance planning, actuals, closing, and reporting activities for existing and newly created legal entities. Additionally, you will support the transfer of assets and liabilities to new legal entities, ensuring a smooth and compliant transition while building strong relationships with key stakeholders. This role presents an excellent opportunity to contribute to a high-impact project within a supportive and innovative environment.Key Responsibilities:- Provide support during the legal entity separation process.- Oversee and execute finance actuals, closing, and reporting activities for assigned reporting unit(s) to ensure timely delivery and accuracy.- Perform thorough sanity checks of the Profit and Loss (P&L) statement and coordinate variances analysis against actuals, including comparisons to prior periods.- Ensure compliance with dsm-firmenich Accounting Rules, international, and local statutory accounting standards to maintain the integrity of financial statements and management reports.- Monitor the Balance Sheet, conduct financial variance analysis, and address open items to ensure financial stability and accuracy.- Review integrity and quality of all sub ledgers, including balance reconciliation, to identify and resolve discrepancies.- Coordinate documentation related to accruals, provisions, and special items to support accurate financial reporting.- Actively oversee the financial closing process, lead pre-close meetings, define and implement mitigation actions to address issues, and drive improvements to meet defined deadlines and ensure correctness of actuals.- Provide evidence for the Internal Control Framework and follow up on remediation plans.- Coordinate the external audit process from dsm-firmenichs point of view and communicate with internal and external auditors.- Collaborate closely with Financial Shared Services, FP&A, Business Units, and Centres of Expertise to ensure alignment and integration of financial activities across the entities under your responsibility.Qualifications Required:- Bachelors or masters degree in accounting/financial controlling, and/or licensed certified public accountant.- Minimum of 6-8 years of experience in Accounting/Controlling.- Proficient knowledge and proficiency in ERP systems, particularly SAP (SAP ECC 6 version).- Strong understanding of financial control/accounting processes, IFRS, and local GAAP principles.- A team-player with a critical and continuous improvement mindset who drives change within the organization.- Proactive, self-motivated, and resilient person with excellent interpersonal skills and strong stakeholder management abilities.- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across functions and levels.- Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to prioritize and make sound decisions under pressure.- Project and change management skills.- Experience with a carve-out is a strong plus. Experience working with a Shared Service environment is a plus. Role Overview:You will be joining a dynamic and changing environment at dsm-firmenich as an experienced Financial Controller. Your main responsibility will be managing the financial activities of legal entities impacted by the separation. This includes ensuring timely and accurate execution of finance planning, actuals, closing, and reporting activities for existing and newly created legal entities. Additionally, you will support the transfer of assets and liabilities to new legal entities, ensuring a smooth and compliant transition while building strong relationships with key stakeholders. This role presents an excellent opportunity to contribute to a high-impact project within a supportive and innovative environment.Key Responsibilities:- Provide support during the legal entity separation process.- Oversee and execute finance actuals, closing, and reporting activities for assigned reporting unit(s) to ensure timely delivery and accuracy.- Perform thorough sanity checks of the Profit and Loss (P&L) statement and coordinate variances analysis against actuals, including comparisons to prior periods.- Ensure compliance with dsm-firmenich Accounting Rules, international, and local statutory accounting standards to maintain the integrity of financial statements and management reports.- Monitor the Balance Sheet, conduct financial variance analysis, and address open items to ensure financial stability and accuracy.- Review integrity and quality of all sub ledgers, including balance reconciliation, to identify and resolve discrepancies.- Coordinate documentation related to a

Keyskills :
Financial reportingVariance analysisComplianceAccrualsIFRSSAPStakeholder managementCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsAnalytical skillsProject managementChange managementFinancial controllingFinance planningBalance reconciliationGAAP p