Local Division Controller - Malaysia/Singapore

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This position reports to

Finance Manager

Your role and responsibilities

Serving as the key partner for the Business Unit Managers of the Electrification Services division, you will be a vital member of its finance team in Malaysia and Singapore. You will help to set business strategy in line with wider division and product group strategies. In this role you will provide key support to the business, ensuring accurate tracking and processing of all transactions. You will translate business strategy into plans and establish measurable targets, evaluate the financial implications of various strategic decisions, identify risks and recommend actions. The work mode for this position is: Hybrid This role is contributing to the Electrification Service Division of ABB Singapore and Malaysia Cluster. You will be responsible for: • Providing active finance support and improvement actions to ensure achievement of Electrification Service business targets, such as demand orders and revenues, front end cost to serve, Division & product group mix, segment mix, front end inventory, overdues, EBITA, cash flow, price management, rebates and commercial operations effectiveness. • Understanding the business drivers, the current and long-term strategy and identifies opportunities for finance to add value to the business and set and implement finance strategy in the organization in line with corporate and relevant divisions strategies covering expertise, competencies, and organization design. • Ensuring high quality of financial data and business information in line with defined standards and financial closing schedules and performing analysis, review, and proposal for actions to management supporting business performance. • Driving appropriate cost structure, productivity optimization, and capital efficiency and manage and closely monitor the cash flow and takes action to improve net working capital. Enforcing corporate and relevant division specific finance policies, and applicable local reporting and filing requirements. • Ensuring accuracy and effectiveness of commercial processes including market price positioning, rebate and discount schemes, quotation, sales price management, credit and collection management in the assigned countries. Identifies, accounts for, and manages potential risks in the country relating to frame and other contractual agreements with particular focus on integrity and compliance on distributor and channel partners and engages with commercial operations and regional distribution centers in the country/region. • Ensuring timely and efficient communication with all relevant local internal customers to identify and discuss issues for improvement of operations, work quality and efficiency for area of responsibility.

Qualifications for the role

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Business or equivalent.
• 8 years’ + experience in finance experience in a global matrix multinational environment.
• Broad finance functional knowledge and expertise, including full range of functional finance skills: finance controlling, planning, FP&A.
• Intercultural sensitivity and effectiveness - function well across cultures & act as facilitator between cultures
• Teamwork & collaboration - actively demonstrate teamwork & facilitate collaboration
• Strong partnering, project management, consultation, collaboration, change management and influencing skills.
• Extensive experience working on contemporary Finance enterprise resource management (ERP) systems (e.g. SAP, etc.).
• Experience working in a Service environment would be preferred but not essential.

What's in it for you?

• Our people are at the core of what we do - help them develop and grow
• Benefit from an open and solution-oriented work culture
• Feel empowered: take ownership and drive exciting results in your scope of action

Benefits

• Life insurance
• Flexible work practices
• Accident insurance
• Paid Parental leave (gender neutral)
• Sick pay

More about us

Electrifying the world in a safe, smart and sustainable way, ABB Electrification is a global technology leader in electrical distribution and management from source to socket. As the world’s demand for electricity grows, our 50,000+ employees across 100 countries collaborate with customers and partners to transform how people connect, live and work. We develop innovative products, solutions and digital technologies that enable energy efficiency and a low carbon society across all sectors. By applying global scale with local expertise, we shape and support global trends, deliver excellence for customers and power a sustainable future for society. go.abb/electrification We value people from different backgrounds. Apply today for your next career step within ABB and visit www.abb.com to learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #My ABBStory