Business Unit Controller

Job Description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: Lead an engaged and motivated Country / Division GBA Finance team to partner with and support leadership in understanding their business through effective challenge and by providing insightful and accurate management information that will help improve business performance as well as accuracy of reporting. Provide effective financial management & control for the business unit. Role accountabilities: Act as a business partner to support the Business Leaders and BA Controller for decision making. Be a forward looking, proactive Finance partner providing insightful advice and challenge to the business in all areas of performance. Lead the development and completion of the financial plans and forecasts. Track and report the financial performance of the BU in country ensuring integrity is maintained in all governance and compliance areas. Provide insightful analysis on business performance and trends with a forward-looking lens and driving action as required across the business. Drive Working Capital performance to exceed targets. Be an active participant and contributor in the sale and bid processes assisting the leadership to drive profitable growth. Be a champion for change. Lead the Finance function in country: Report financial KPIs, project and P&L performance management reporting and analysis (profitability, net working capital and cashflow) accurately and transparently, enabling effective decision making for Project Managers and Functional Management. Coordinate the BU budget, develop outlook & forecast capabilities and develop mitigation plan to support target achievements. Support the BU and Finance team in matters of M&A, including integration of acquired new companies. Ensure a high level of collaboration and coordination is maintained with the other BU Controllers and the In Country Accounting lead to ensure consistency in service delivery and compliance including meeting all the financial statutory obligations of the country. Interact with global finance team: Contribute to the global Finance strategy with active involvement in the advancement of standardized, centralized and automated process across the entire function. Roll out in the country-BA the processes and methods designed centrally. Ensure standardization within the GBA and with other GBA’s avoiding customization of systems and processes. Ensure maximum use of and alignment to all the GSSC Finance teams (e.g., AP, AR, Accounting, Project accounting). Ensure a high level of collaboration is maintained with the wider GBA Finance team including other BU Controllers across all GBA’s, Centres of Excellence, FP&A and Group Control. Qualifications & Experience: The candidate should have a relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree and at least 5+ years of experience as a senior finance leader with broad experience in finance management and reporting in a global setting. Further the candidate should have proven experience as strong business partner with excellent understanding of client needs combined with a thorough knowledge of project business and driving finance transformation and/or operational excellence processes (including leading, motivating and developing remote finance teams). For this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas: Managing change: Managing or leading change in programs or teams and driving standardization and automation. Management: Leading a significant finance function, developing strategy and successfully driving accountability through KPIs and behaviour. Data and technology: Adopting data-driven decision making, leveraging data to create and demonstrate value. Tech savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies. Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model: We seek Arcadians with a strong fit to our leadership success profile, to build and drive our culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability. Successful leaders at Arcadis will possess strong learning agility, combined with a balanced mix of being curious, driving success and igniting passion. Be curious: Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others, bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation. Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset. Are digitally-savvy, entrepreneurial and innovative. Build organizational networks that are value-adding, engaging and purposeful. Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation. Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict. Drive success: Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery. Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others. Internalize organizational goals, making them one’s own personal stretch goals. Are outcomes focused and tackle challenges head-on. Demonstrate commercial acumen in general, and specifically with regards to sustainable solutions. Actively shape the future of the organization. Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It's why we are pioneering a skill-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. As an equal opportunity employer, we value and promote diversity at Arcadis and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. 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