COUNTRY FINANCES CONTROLLING MANAGER - R&D

Support and Coach Project managers and project teams:

• Train program team members to achieve deep understanding of program cost, program financial goals, and proper use of profitability tools and processes (Stop Invest, reforecast, INDEV, Apollo, ,…) with Division Financial Program control support
• Provide and ensure correct integration of country financial information (plant finance information, financial rates)  in the project profitability assessment
• Support Purchasing and Sales with costing in order to secure program profitability.
• Liaise with other regions financial controllers for multi-regional platforms and lead the profitability assessment process when his/her country is hosting the global quotation

Contribute to Programs Profitability and Cash optimization

• Participate in profitability and cash improvement actions (make-or-buy decisions, etc.)
• Ensure that Company assets are optimized in the program.
• Define actions and timing to achieve or improve program financial goals (roadmap to target / Program profitability) together with the Program Manager
• Monitor tasks, risks and opportunities
• Monitor cash for development and tooling
• Regularly Report on programs profitability evolution, risk and opportunities to Region/country ‘s management and Division Financial program control.

Prepare Gate reviews and CAPCOM 

• Ensure compliance with the Group/Division project & investment financial procedures (CAPCOM submission, profitability update for gate reviews, Inchange follow-up) with Division Financial Program control support
• Check and validate project financial information provided to management prior to gate reviews and CAPCOM and alert Division Financial Program control support of any issue/risk
• Ensure quality and completeness of material submitted to CAPCOM and correct storage in PLM

Ensure financial Control of the Research and Development functions

• Leads the budget process for R&D for the Region/Country (Single report)
• Produce and analyse the monthly R&D actual results (Devfollow, Hourly rate, R&D P&L)
• Ensure proper booking of hours and development costs and sales
• Act as business partner for Development functions managers

Contribute to finance processes and improvement:

• Contribute to the Budget and Strategic plan processes for the Region/country. Ensure correct integration of program related data (volume, BOM,…) by the countries
• Support the impairment risk tests

• Contribute to program controlling tools and processes improvement at all levels (country, region, division, group), Represent project teams in finance projects
• Contribute to any ad hoc study related to programs financial performance
• Coordinate yearly collection and challenge of each plant’s input data  with local finance teams
• Coordinate yearly collection  of costing rates and trial costs data  with local industrial teams

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