Financial Controller Ref. No: 7788

Lufthansa Group Business Services is a 100 per cent Lufthansa subsidiary. We offer shared services worldwide for the entire Lufthansa Group in the areas of Finance, Business Intelligence & Transformation, Human Resources, Procurement and IT, which we provide or manage ourselves.

It’s our goal to harmonize and standardize processes and to continuously make them more efficient and effective. We see ourselves as pioneers in digitization, as well as in the use and distribution of the latest technologies, for example in business process automation.

As an internationally operating company, LGBS is represented at locations in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Krakow, Manila and Mexico City and manages BPO providers in Germany and abroad. With the global network of foreign representatives of the Lufthansa Group's field organization, we are also locally anchored and active worldwide.

Region: Kraków, małopolskie

Requirements:

• Academic/Master degree (Finance Accounting or Economics related field)
• Min. 2 years of relevant professional experience (controlling/audit/management accounting)
• Knowledge of IFRS or local GAAP will be an asset
• Very good English skills
• SAP knowledge
• Excellent computer literacy, especially in MS Office
• Communication and presentation skills
• Negotiation skills and assertiveness
• Proactive attitude
• Ability to think analytically combined with conceptual skills and attention to the business perspective

Responsibilities:

Based on his/her functional and professional expertise and background the job holder will be responsible for financial controlling within the organization. These includes: short term and long term planning of costs and revenues (forecasting and budgeting), preparation and execution of intra-year monitoring, tracking actuals vs. plans and development of  improvement initiatives where applicable; subject-specific handling/further development of cost elements/centers/units in profit and loss account; preparation of monthly reporting as well as, quarterly/annual financial statements; ensuring correct bookings on accounts, enhancement of existing processes and procedures; proposals for unit-wide process optimization/modification; ensuring compliance; providing insights to support business decisions;  managing relationships with key stakeholders.

• Accountable to departments’ budget/ forecast preparation
• Design, maintain and implement processes to manage actively the one of the company departments’ costs and FTEs for actual financial monitoring
• Ensure monthly accurate tracking of costs and financial summary preparation
• Accountable for analysis and support strategic initiatives and investments control
• Provide visibility to the organization of activities covered by Operations
• Support organization by sharing Controlling best practices
• Challenge by definition of financial targets within area of responsibility
• Maintain cost structure according reporting requirements and dynamic in organization
• Introduce improvements in reporting process, data analysis and cost structure maintenance
• Prepare recurring reports and answer ad hoc analysis requests at Management level
• Providing proactively ideas for the process improvements and implementation of changes
• Direct support to the Departments Heads and acting as consultant and expert for financial