The Financial Analyst / Controller Specialist drives financial reporting accuracy, rigorous budgeting, and strategic cost optimization. This role is responsible for orchestrating the monthly business review cycle, validating financial integrity within corporate reporting systems, and delivering forecasting models that guide executive decision-making. Working closely with corporate accounting, treasury, tax, and regional business partners, you will act as a key analytical resource to identify operational efficiencies and protect corporate financial performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare the monthly business review package and submit monthly financials to the Finance Team, ensuring absolute timeliness and accuracy of financial and management reporting data for all stakeholders.

• Coordinate directly with the accounting team and other critical finance functions (including treasury and tax) during the month-end closing process.

• Validate and reconcile monthly financial data within the Global Reporting System to ensure alignment with global corporate standards.

• Lead the development, modeling, and consolidation of financial forecasting, annual budgeting, and mid-term operational planning.

• Manage financial data submissions to the SWX Finance Team and ensure accurate integration into the Global Reporting System.

• Assist the company’s Controllers in monitoring and analyzing Key Financial Indicators (KPIs) to proactively identify financial trends and necessary process improvements.

• Identify cost-saving opportunities through deep-dive analysis of operational and financial data, partnering with internal business units to execute and track these cost-containment initiatives.

• Support strategic special projects and execute ad-hoc financial duties assigned by the Head of Finance to drive corporate agile initiatives.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a closely related quantitative discipline.

• Experience: 3–5+ years of corporate finance, FP&A, or business controlling experience, preferably within an international corporate matrix or consulting engineering environment.

• Technical Systems: Strong experience working with consolidated enterprise resource planning (ERP) architectures and Global Reporting Systems.

• Financial Expertise: Solid understanding of month-end closing cycles, GAAP/IFRS principles, budget modeling, variance analysis, and multi-functional corporate finance compliance (Tax and Treasury interfaces).

• Analytical Power: Advanced Excel capability (complex financial modeling, data automation) and a sharp eye for identifying structural cost drivers.

• Languages: Advanced professional English proficiency (written and spoken) for corporate reporting data submission and international stakeholder collaboration

• Prior experience interfacing with automated corporate submission structures (e.g., SWX Finance reporting tools).
• Experience utilizing data visualization tools (such as Power BI or Tableau) to scale monthly business review reporting packages.