Junior Business Controller

KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry: our job is to make the world’s cities better places to live. At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization, which add value to the life cycle of any building.

KONE Industrial Spa is one of the European manufacturing units of KONE Supply Chain.

KONE Finance professionals are responsible for corporate controlling and reporting, treasury, taxes, investor relations, as well as finance development and alliances and acquisitions. We support our business colleagues by driving a financially sound business direction and providing relevant intelligence for decision-making. With dedicated roles and global communities for support, our Finance function is a community with a high level of professionalism and ample opportunities for learning and growth

We are looking for a highly motivated Junior Business Controller for KONE Supply Chain Europe based in Pero Milan, Italy.

The candidate will join the Supply Chain Europe Finance Team. Junior Business Controller supports Business Controllers in analyzing and monitoring the business performance. He/She supports the business by proactively identifying solutions to improve business performance. Junior Business Controller supports the Business Controller in regularly reviewing and ensuring that activities are performed in accordance with the KONE Financial Control Model (FCM) and provides necessary analysis to ensure financial impacts are measured and reported following the KONE accounting standards and instructions. Junior Business Controller is also accountable for supporting in executing the planning process according to global guidelines with the business leaders

Your Responsibilities and key activities

• Business partnering with strong outside-in mindset understanding of the business logic and dependencies between key operational processes, relationships and metrics
• Being part of the business controlling team promote and ensure adequate finance understanding in the business organization
• Supporting the Business Controller in providing  actionable insights, key findings, and conclusions to business that support the Management, including manufacturing cost, product cost and other Key Performance Indicators
• Perform Product and Manufacturing Costing analysis including material costing runs, activity costing analysis, production order costing review
• Ensure that key reporting principles and correct costing parameters as defined by KONE accounting and reporting guidelines and policies
• Support the planning and forecasting processes
• Participate and contribute to the Business Controlling Community to drive efficiency and effectiveness of the function
• Maintain strong connections with other stakeholders and other Finance colleagues within KONE to share best practices and to understand current and future trends

Requirements for the role:

• At least 2-5 years of professional experience, preferably in an industrial environment
• M. Sc in Finance, business administration or industrial engineering & management
• Good Microsoft Excel knowledge
• SAP ERP (FICO) and BI knowledge
• Strong analytical and communication skills, coupled with the ability to build trust and collaboration among business leaders/stakeholders
• Good organizational and process planning skills
• Fluent in English and Italian

The position is located in Pero Milan, Italy.

We offer

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of everyone. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us, and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.  We offer a chance to work with products that are used by billions of users daily, products and services that are widely recognized by their quality and innovation and continue developing our offering to the customers further. 

For additional information, please contact Heikki Koistinen (email: [email protected]).

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equity. At KONE, we strive to provide equal opportunity for everyone. All applications for vacant positions will be welcomed and will be considered on the relative merits of the applicant against the role profile for the position regardless of color, race, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability (ex L. 68/99), parental responsibilities, age, religion, or belief.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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