Financial Manager at ASSA ABLOY Group

What would you do as our Financial Manager

• Support a business unit leader and all departments proactively with value-added analysis and provide business partnership.
• Manage the process of Weekly sales forecast, quarterly forecasting, and yearly financial planning.
• Provide timely, relevant, and accurate analytics to management to facilitate decision-making objectives and present financials for different occasions.
• Provide status of financial condition by collecting, interpreting, and reporting financial data
• Communicate analytical results verbally, in writing and in presentation form to all levels of management. Strong sense of urgency to meet deadlines with the ability to lead multiple projects and initiatives concurrently.
• Support month-end and year-end close processes
• Support with pricing
• Develop Excel-based financial models and other ad-hoc financial analyses to support decision-making such as sensitivity/scenario analysis, resource requirement modeling and cost controls with limited oversight.
• Preliminary control of the company's costs, revenues and cash flows, including optimization proposals/tracking.
• Ensure adherence to financial regulations and guidelines.
• Responsible for all the ASSA ABLOY South African and the respective business unit legal entities fiscal close and all statutory requirements forthcoming under the respective business unit.
• Ensure the financial results are reported accurately and in line with the ASSA ABLOY Group Accounting Manual and IFRS.
• Identify proper KPIs together with management.
• Support in audit and internal control operations in partnership with the finance department.
• Analyze product margins, perform special reports and analysis to provide consultative support to new business initiatives.
• Play an instrumental role with the implementation of a new ERP system for the ASSA ABLOY South Africa business.

The skills and experience you need 

• Master's Degree in Finance / CA(SA) with articles
• 5+ years' of proven working experience in a similar position
• Strong orientation towards modern controlling tools and systems, financial modelling & automation
• Solid knowledge of financial analysis and forecasting
• Exceptional business-numerical, analytical and problem-solving skills, thorough knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• An analytical mind with a strategic ability
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Fluent in English both written and spoken
• Competent with MS Office skills (Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint

Special Competencies seen as advantage

• Competent with Qlik Sense/ Power BI
• Experience in working within multinational environment
• Knowledge of ERP (SAP)