Business Controller

Business Controller

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• Drive the planning and reforecasting processes for GSC, as well as ongoing business controllership of financial performance. Working cross functionally with central teams (Finance, IT and HR) to build and maintain the annual budget, departmental budgets, and tracking and reporting of P&L and Capex against the budget / forecasts
• Prepare monthly and ad hoc financial analyses to help drive improvements in the business and provide decision support where there is a deviation in financial performance to the budget / forecast.
• Collaborate with GSC department heads to develop and monitor departmental budgets
• Act as a challenging and supportive business partner to challenge budget and forecast assumptions, and ongoing business performance and controllership based on sound analysis of internal and external performance and business drivers
• Act as a Finance business partner for finance modelling on transformation projects enabling GSC’s development strategy
• Partner with the Europe Business Controller to enhance and accelerate the financial reporting process, build and deliver business performance reporting/operating dashboards.

Nasze wymagania

• Significant experience in a controlling position preferably in a shared service environment
• Solid experience of financial modelling and business/investment case preparations
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to: present and discuss financial information to a culturally diverse group of people and engage and influence senior management
• Fluent English and Polish
• Experience in preparing and delivering senior management level communications.
• Highly analytical, detail-oriented with a commitment to creating a high-quality product.
• Experience in financial software (SAP is plus)
• Able to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and adapt to change

The DLA Global Service Centre (GSC) provides and supports financial, HR and IT services to DLA Piper in almost 30 countries.

DLA Piper is embarking on one of the most important Finance transformation programmes that the Firm has ever undertaken. We are significantly changing how we operate and the role of Finance across our International business. Over the next 2-3 years we will re-think and streamline current processes, implement world class technology, and deliver enhanced levels of insights across our international business. The Global Service Centre will be pivotal to the success of this enterprise-wide transformation program by expanding its capabilities, investing in automation tools, and upskilling its workforce to deliver cost efficient services with improved quality and control.

In this context you will be facilitating, coordinating, and playing a key role in the annual planning process, ongoing financial forecasting, tracking capex and workforce management controlling, reporting on performance against plan / forecast, and supporting Senior Controllers in delivering these overarching projects.

Based on data insights and financial reviews, you will challenge and support the GSC Leadership achieve its development plans and optimise labour costs.

To support the GSC development roadmap you will have a proven track-record of driving business outcomes through keen financial insight and business and workforce management modelling. You will be a tenured financial planning & analysis expert with experience in shared service environment. This will be combined with a solid understanding of our transformation roadmap and future finance target organizational model. You will have the opportunity to build new reporting processes and data insights from scratch to create a 360-degree financial and operational picture of the GSC that reflects the execution of its development strategy. You will introduce automated reporting processes, dashboards, and tools to create real-time reporting with forward-looking insights. You will achieve this by actively liaising and building relationships with the Central UK finance teams, the GSC department heads, the Head of Finance Shared Services and the GSC Senior Finance Manager. You will be excellent communicator with senior leaders and will use the financial plan and forecast to support the strategy, providing analysis and course correction insight where required.