Europe- Senior Financial Controller

Continental Europe has a centralized presales organization. This presales team works on opportunities across the region, with people working across borders. A bid manager or an architect in this team may be working on a deal in France and on another deal in Sweden at the same time and may be working on yet another deal in Germany the month after. This depends on which deals are active and which specialization is needed.

This means that a lot of different activities need to happen from a finance perspective:

• Budgets need to be defined and setup per country and for the region as a whole
• Actuals need to be tracked and deviations need to be analyzed and explained
• Tracking happens both on a consolidated level and in the countries
• Time sheeting needs to be consolidated where needed
• The time that people work on bids needs to be cross charged to the correct country
• The overhead and underutilized needs to be split between countries based on an agreed methodology
• Rates for the team members need to be reviewed and discussed in the countries
• Communication across countries on progress and forecast

This is of course done together with the business, in this case the Head of Presales Continental Europe and the Head of Bid Management in Continental Europe.

Key Activities:

• Infrastructure Systems (ISS) Finance Ownership & Counter Part for the following areas: 
  • ISS Data Center Solutions (Cost Centers, Internal Orders)
  • ISS Global Portfolio Management (Cost Centers, Internal Orders)
• Month End Close support including cost center / internal order, monitoring cost performance & provide variance analysis, comprehensive commenting for gaps & relevant insights
• Budget preparation, creation and initiation (including headcount and capex planning, IPR Quotations / QBR)
• Budget monitoring, risks identification
• Quarterly Framework process with GTM and Regions across Europe
• Financial Fund Management incl. Process optimization
• Cost management in alignment with Fujitsu Headquarter
• Prepare standard monthly / quarterly financial reports for various internal stakeholders incl. Executives
• Prepare ad-hoc reports and analysis for internal stakeholders
• Answer queries related to the reporting content
• Initiate and coordinate discussion and agreements with finance and business stakeholders around reporting and forecasting requirements
• Liaise with local FDs and controllers across Europe to support compliance of financial reporting and forecasting with the FP&A policies and guidelines
• Develop new and adjust existing reporting templates according to business requirements
• Design and implement new reporting procedures according to business needs
• Maintain and administer complex financial reporting and forecasting tools, ensure their compliance with changing needs of the business and reporting guidelines from Fujitsu financial organization
• Propose and implement improvements and automations to existing reporting and other processes supporting financial controlling (e.g. budgeting and forecasting, data consolidation and reconciliation)
• Perform other duties as agreed with Head of Finance Europe Platform FP&A or FP&A Team Lead
• Support junior team members
   

Skills required:

• Master in Finance / Economics or Computer Science
• Excellent understanding of financial processes and financial statements
• Minimum 3 years of experience in financial reporting
• Fluent command of Business English
• The ability to interact at all levels with internal customers, business units and countries
• Excellent command of MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong VBA programming skills (Excel / Access / Outlook)
• Knowledge of database administration and maintenance (MS Access + SQL) would be an advantage
• Good working knowledge of SAP R/3, SAP Business Explorer and HFM
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Able to work as part of a team
• Strong curiosity to learn about Fujitsu, our business, the markets we are in and our strategy