Senior Financial Analyst

Johnson Controls is a world leader in smart buildings, creating safe, healthy and sustainable spaces.

Our Vision: For nearly 140 years, we've made buildings better and now we're transforming them again with our award-winning digital technologies and services. We use artificial intelligence and data-driven solutions to give you deeper insight into your building's health, sustainability and performance.

Our Mission: It's changing the way we design, operate and maintain indoor environments and driving to a new era of autonomous buildings.

Our Services: We deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, hotels, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive suite of connected solutions.

Job Description: As a Senior Finance Analyst within our Global Operations team, you will support the Europe and Middle-East Logistics and Distribution (L&D) organization by providing informative, relevant and timely financial analysis on monthly performance, forward-looking budgets and forecasts and operational initiatives.

Responsibilities:

1. Financial management reporting to provide insight into operational metrics and their financial impacts for 3 primary and 6 secondary distribution centers with $25 million of annual warehouse cost as well as $60 million of freight spending within the EMEA region.
2. Development of regional L&D plan and forecasts.
3. Control integrity of numbers submitted, supporting assumptions, and alignment to enterprise objectives.
4. Communicate and explain forecast assumptions and methodology in a transparent manner to site and regional L&D leadership as well as Product Business Units.
5. Prepare in-depth financial and operational analysis of regional L&D financial results.
6. Completing financial bridges on actual to plan, forecast, and prior year.
7. Ensuring accuracy and quality of data used by the regional L&D management team.
8. Support a strong controls and governance environment.
9. Assist with internal and external audits at distribution sites within the region.
10. Take a pro-active approach to find gaps in financial controls and governance.
11. Conduct balance sheet reviews in conjunction with shared service centers.
12. Provide financial oversight to the cycle count processes, partner with site leaders to organize and coordinate the annual physical inventory counts where necessary.
13. Provide financial leadership on cross-functional projects including: L&D locations and optimizing distribution points, inventory levels, and transportation.
14. Deployment of freight audit & pay processes.
15. Development of capital expenditure investments requests, reporting of spending, and validation of savings achievement.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor's/Master's Degree in finance & control (or local equivalent).
2. Solid industry experience in finance department of a large multi-national company.
3. Dutch and English Language skills at professional level.
4. Proactive with continuous improvement attitude and ability to influence change.
5. Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, problem-solving skills.
6. Be able to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance colleagues and to build strong working relationships at all levels.
7. Individual system skills, particularly Excel, OneStream, PowerBI and SAP.

What We Offer: We offer you a permanent contract with a competitive salary based on your work experience and level of knowledge.

About Us: Johnson Controls is a world leader in smart buildings, creating safe, healthy and sustainable spaces. For nearly 140 years, we have made buildings better and now we are transforming them again with our award-winning digital technologies and services. We are using artificial intelligence and data-driven solutions to give you deeper insight into your building's health, sustainability and performance. It's changing the way we design, operate and maintain indoor environments and driving to a new era of autonomous buildings. We deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, hotels, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive suite of connected solutions. Johnson Controls offers the world's largest portfolio of building technology, software and services. Supported by a team of more than 100,000 dedicated employees working across 150 countries, we're helping customers achieve their sustainability goals and power their mission.