Functional Controlling Professional

Schaeffler•Auburn Hills, MI

About The Position

Schaeffler is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, we offer you many development opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in either Accounting, Finance or Engineering (Master’s Degree or MBA preferred).
Minimum of five (5) years working experience in a similar field.
Deep Financial / Business understanding.
Must be a creative hands-on individual who has very good communication, presentation and interpersonal skills at the highest level of the plant organization.
Must possess well developed problem-solving skills, good organizational skills and has demonstrated the ability to be self-directed and effectively relate to the different levels in the plants.
Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Excel (especially PowerPoint and Excel).
Qualified candidates must have the ability to maintain confidentiality.
Experience with SAP is required.
Work under pressure in Budget times and month end.
Ability to travel as needed.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without employment visa or other sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Working independently on various calculations, forecasts and reports.
Independent lead of conducting product profitability calculations (PPA) for different investment types, planning and monitoring of costs and performance, creation of premise sheets, product profitability calculations and variance analyses.
Independently create standard and ad hoc reports across different business units, analysis and interpretation of P&L and sales forecasts.
Coordinate, create and analyze of forecasts on a business unit level in coordination with other departments, plant segments and the supervisor, derivation of recommendations for action from the forecasts.
Lead analysis and define assumptions for the preparation of strategy dialogue and derivation of general conditions for budget planning within a defined framework.
Monitoring of goal achievement of the business unit and derivation of independently give recommendations for action in case of deviation and drive improvement measures.
Actively look for improvement opportunities and to create tools and process optimization as well as the development of controlling methods and procedures with respect to changing economical conditions.
Lead the organization and execution of trainings.
Lead smaller projects with the BD.
Support with Legal entity tasks with divisional impacts (e.g. pricing/rebate accruals, warranty claims, IC billing of project cost, evaluation of other financial proceedings, etc.).