Controlling
Purpose
This role understands, monitors, and improves IDEMIA's financial performance, and supports business leaders in making the best decisions that develop the activity while preserving risk.
Key Missions
- Reviews and validates "closing" data to ensure it reflects the reality of the business
- Reviews, analyzes, and challenges financial performance (profitability and cash)
- Challenges and partner with Business/Program/Research and Development/Operations/Manufacturing/Function leaders to define and implement action plans that will improve financial performance (profitability and cash)
- For Government business: monitors program financial performance, challenges and partners with Program Managers to improve their program financial performance (profitability and cash)
- Identifies financial risks and involves Division/Region specialists (Tax, Treasury, Credit Management, etc.) for advice to mitigate risk and guide business decisions
- Participates in negotiations with external stakeholders such as key customers or suppliers as needed to improve profitability and cash performance
- Together with business leaders, prepares financial performance reviews (monthly, forecast, budget, VCP, investments) and presents them to the Management team
- Structures and organizes the financial cycles (monthly, forecast, budget, VCP, Investments), for proper involvement of Business leaders. Drives budget, forecast, and VCP preparation, defines accounting choices (IFRS 15 revenue booking), ensures proper accruals are booked, and explains them to auditors
- Provides expertise and advice, coaches business leaders to help them understand financial performance
- Develops finance knowledge of internal stakeholders by continuous knowledge sharing on finance and accounting principles
- Models and contributes to defining the business strategic vision
- Takes on all the missions of the role for a plant, a service line or business within a Region
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