Country Business Controller
We are one of Europe’s leading textile service companies with 176 years of experience in the textile industry. We offer a wide range of textile services ranging from workwear, mats, industrial mats to industrial wipers.
We are looking for a new Country Business Controller to strengthen our Hungarian Management Team.
Business Controller will monitor and drive country financial performance, taking responsibility, adding strategic commentary and reporting the actual results. The role of Country Business Controller will assess performance against business strategy and make actionable data-driven recommendations on both strategy and operations to strategically enhance financial performance and business opportunities.
Key tasks:
- Help Lindström Finance and country management team to set out a longer term strategy for their business
- Develop longer term forecasting models in cooperation with the relevant stakeholders
- Review the budget based on performance to date, and make appropriate amendments through the reforecast process
- Give management a clear indication of where their performance for the year is heading, and helping them to understand what actions need to be taken
- Provide the business unit and channel teams with all the reporting required to help them manage their areas including monthly summaries of actual performance
- Tight co-operation with data-driven end-to-end process support together with finance centralized core function
- Customer profitability and pricing support, insight and challenging
- Lead the annual budget-setting process, playing a key role at the interface between finance and the business
- Ensure availability of high-quality forward-looking information
- Support business in providing information with relevance for business issues, i.e. linked in to growth or cost reduction analyses
- Help the Finance team to provide accurate monthly latest view reporting, by providing input and insight
- Statutory yearly balance book preparation, monthly VAT, tax reporting and possibly other local regulatory financial reporting (audit contact)
What we are expecting:
- Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Finance and/or Accounting
- Strong Finance leadership & communication skills
- At least 5 years senior leadership experience (including Finance manager experience in Hungary)
- Depth and Breadth of Finance Knowledge
- Understanding of the customers and regional business needs
- Deep market knowledge: competitors, trend, legal and regulatory environment
- Commercial understanding of revenue and cost drivers, opportunities and threats.
- Strategic understanding of business dynamics, strategy analysis and formulation.
- Continuous learning: learning beyond Finance requirements to improve social and technical cognition to synthesise knowledge
What we offer:
- Competitive salary, annual bonus, cafeteria
- Home office once a week
- Company car, laptop, mobile phone
- Multinational working environment
- Family friendly environment
Work location:
Hungary, Székesfehérvár
If you are interested, apply for the position by sending your CV to the following e-mail address: erika.nyulasi@lindstromgroup.com