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Head of Finance and Controlling
 

Morgan Hill, CA

 

 

OBJECTIVES:

  • Lead Finance & Controlling within T-DC
  • Support local management team in all financial matters
  • Support Head Finance & Controlling Operations in all financial matters regarding T-DC
  • Support Group Controlling to ensure the reliability and consistency of the reported information
  • The functional lead of the local Finance & Controlling team in T-DC

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Implement Group Financial Guidelines
  • Lead functional Finance & Controlling in T-DC
  • Ensure consistent and reliable reporting according to the deadlines
  • Achieving the common objectives (MBO)

Management

  • Lead, Train & Develop the Accounting and Controlling team
  • Responsibility for profit and loss concerning this function

 

Accounting

  • Lead the accounting process in time and quality making sure all deadlines are met regarding bookings, accruals, and provisions
  • Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual closings
  • Ensure proper accounting according to IFRS and US GAAP

 

Annual Budgeting/Quarterly Forecasting

  • Lead the budgeting/forecasting process within the site
  • Initiate mitigation plan / corrective actions whenever needed

 

Monthly Reporting

  • Ensure timely reporting on high-quality
  • Analyze monthly reports and propose corrective actions

 

Taxes

  • Ensure correct tax accounting and compliance with local tax rules and regulations
  • Ensure timely and correct fillings of direct and indirect taxes
  • Ensure transfer pricing is in line with global and local TP rules and regulations

 

Treasury

  • Execute all local treasury activities
  • First contact for local bank

 

Project Controlling

  • Set up and run project controlling onsite (set up/revíew/analysis of project costs, monitoring of milestones)
  • Ad Hoc analysis e.g. Operations management

 

Plant Controlling

  • Establish, maintain, and improve material calculation (Bill of Material, Standard costs, intersegment pricing)
  • Ensure proper inventory levels including slow movers and advice on how to reach the budget
  • Monitor cost centers and internal orders
  • Implement cost savings as decided during the budget process
  • Prepare monthly Operations Dashboard for the legal entities that are in scope and ensure proper analysis of major movements

 

Business Support/Advice

  • Act as Financial Advisor to the General Manager, as well as the whole management team
  • Execute requested ad-hoc analysis from local, divisional, or group management

 

Financial Processes

  • implement and maintain local finance processes as required by Group TMS
  • Continuously improve finance processes to enable more efficient day-to-day operations

 

Financial Systems

  • Financial lead locally for all financial systems such as SAP FI/CO/BW, Cognos, and Avatax
  • Responsible for training local team with BW based on their day-to-day requirements

 

lnternal Control System

  • Maintain lnternal Control System

 

REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelors or Masters Degree Preferred 

At least 5 years experience in con­trolling in an industrial and interna­tional environment

Strong IT skills (SAP R/3, SAP BW, COGNOS and Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint)

 

Our purpose. 
At Tecan we are driven to improve people’s lives and health. We do this by empowering our customers to scale healthcare innovation globally from life science to the clinic. We collaborate with our customers from early-stage innovation through project implementation and beyond. We deliver the products, services and solutions that make lab processes and medical procedures precise, reproducible and compliant. 
 
Stay unique and make it count. 
Our values - trust, highest standards and ambition - are the cornerstones of our business and provide the framework for Tecan's culture. We foster a positive and empowering environment where our rarest assets, our unique employees, can grow and bring their passion and talent to work.
Legal entity:  Valvex enterprises DCPMI
City:  Morgan Hill, CA
Country:  US


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