Location Controller Bardi

Location Controller
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

Position Summary

The new joiner will be responsible for the safeguarding and ethical accounting of NVH business units' assets in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

He/she will support actively the businesses in understanding their financial performances and achieving their growth and financial targets within our Company policies and Internal Control Systems.

**Responsibilities

**MAIN DUTIES

- ** Accounting & Compliance

- Oversee the full monthly, quarterly and yearly closing cycle for the entities in scope through timely submission and consolidation of the financial data.

Ensure high-level of quality during the closing cycles whilst maintaining the 3 days closing timeline,

- Coordinate the annual standard cost preparation as well as the proper evaluation of the annual inventory.

Supervision of monthly and yearly inventory stock take.

Monthly and quarterly review of inventory reserves, coordinate quarterly review with Supply Chain, Business leaders and Regional Controlling,

- Financial and business analysis (profitability, cost control and tracking, pricing effect ),

- Support proactively internal and external reporting and for maintaining integrity, while assuring Generally Accepted Accounting Practices are in place (including General Ledgers, AP/AR Sub-ledgers, and Cost Accounting).

Respond to special financial requests and analysis and communicate potential problem areas.

Conduct financial review and analysis as requested,

- Safeguard continuously the internal control system and its compliance within SOX requirements as defined by Corporate Internal Audit.

Prepare regular reviews with business team to ensure sustainability of business processes and proactive identification of process/control gaps.

Prepare and present detailed balance sheet reviews as well as summary of key drivers/changes and unusual to Global/Regional Controllers,

- Prepare and present monthly business reviews with business and senior leadership teams (financial results vs. annual plan, rolling forecast, quarterly commitments, bridge analysis from Sales to DNE, S&OP and production reviews and working capital metrics review) to help them understand business performance and area of focus,

- ** Financial Planning & Analysis

- Support proactively the review of monthly and quarterly rolling forecast for the respective business units and related division.

Provide continuous feedback and meaningful analysis to help the Central Finance and business teams to improve P&L and working capital assumptions over-time through workshop, training, process improvement, and KPI,

- Prepare and present monthly the accuracy level and gap versus rolling forecast and help the business teams to identify offset or mitigation plan.

Ensure delivery of commitments through reporting and meetings,

- Support decision making process for investments through business analysis preparation and review (DCF, NPV, ROI and cost savings estimate).

Support executive review to achieve Global and Corporate profitability targets (Gap closing plan, Get Well )

- ** Corporate Finance

- Support the review and approval of payments released by the location in Italy,

- Support regional FSM in preparing tax planning and tax package for quarterly and year-end closing for both USGAAP and local GAAP perspectives.

- Support the statutory accounts preparation as per Italian GAAP as well as any internal or external audit in collaboration with the regional FSM organization,

- **Projects and Ad-hoc Responsibilities

- Business process review and improvements through LEAN initiatives whilst ensuring fully compliance with SOX, Company policies and local regulations

- ERP system implementation (ie.

SAP Business One, Concur platform) and business tools enhancement (reporting through PowerBI, automation and simplification).

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

- Prepare and deliver monthly, quarterly and yearly accounts are prepared as per the Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP) and with a good level of quality within the agreed timeline with Central Finance,

- Continuous review and improvement of our internal control system to ensure a full compliance to Sarbanes-Oxley ("SOX") key controls defined by the Company Internal Audit organization.

Remediate proactively to any gaps created by business process change or business expansion/shutdown as well as change in personnel,

- Coordinate financial business review (covering all sites, business units and divisions within the scope) through detailed analyzes and bridges, meaningful commentaries and perspectives within the business environment and market conditions in order to ensure a full understanding of the business performance, gaps, risks and exposures by the Business Leaders,

- Support the forecast and planning process and help the Central Finance and business teams in estimating balanced assumptions for sales and DNE (including hedges and exposures review and mitigation plan) in order to improve forecast predicti