General Information:

Act as Senior Leader in Global Finance to provide financial and business support to global and regional functional leaders. Act as a business partner to drive overall financial health of the business by providing regular reporting, analysis, and strategic insight. Responsibilities include facilitating overall productivity and effectiveness of the business organization.

Your Responsibilities:

• Actionable Analysis: Provide proactive business support to global and/or regional functional leaders through regular financial analysis, reporting, and strategic guidance.
• Project execution: Provides input to the Project Execution Plan on financial aspects. Participates in opportunity/risk identification, monitor that all required mitigation actions are timely implemented. Supports the Business Leader in coordinating and preparing monthly project reviews. Participates in preparing the project cost report. Verifies the substance for cost to complete. Provides input to the project cost report and analysis.
• P&L/Balance Sheet: Is responsible for the correctness of project balance sheet and income statement as well as for cash flow and monthly/quarterly forecast. Monitor and report on all necessary KPIs for the business especially those related to Scorecard, Cash Flow, and Networking Capital; others as assigned.
• Budgeting/Forecasting: Lead the budgeting and forecasting process for assigned functional responsibility. Scope can be from orders, revenue, headcount, expense and through EBIT.
• Headcount: Ensure proper reconciliation of all headcounts for assigned functional responsibilities.
• Reporting: Timely and accurate reporting weekly, monthly, and quarterly. This would include functional reporting, Enterprise Software reporting, as well as external reporting at BU and/or Division level
• Commission Accounting/Reporting: Facilitate execution of commission plans, payments, reporting and analysis.
• Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting from four-year college or university preferred.
• Candidate must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for Hitachi Energy in the United States.
• Master's degree preferred
• Six to ten years related Finance experience
• General knowledge of GAAP/IFRS accounting standards
• Strong knowledge of Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow
• Preferred knowledge of Software industry and revenue recognition
• Experience within a global, matrix organization is preferred
• Experience using multiple financial systems (SAP) and ERPs (Salesforce.com, BI tools)
• Experience with monthly and quarterly close and reporting cycles
• Change leadership experience and proven delivery of change implementation
• Proven ability to build effective relationships at all levels across the business, able to collaborate within the broader business at a senior level
• Results driven, ability to inspire, motivate and lead people to best outcomes indirectly, using influencing skills