General Information

Location:

• City: Carnaxide
• Country: Portugal
• Region: Europe

Job Category: Finance Job Type: Regular Type of Contract: Permanent Working time: Full-time Work schedule: Day shift Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group?s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world?s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of ?10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program.
The role of the Finance function is to define financial policies and to secure the correct, good and compliant financial management of the Group. It also provides both external stakeholders and internal decision-makers with relevant financial data and analyses, with an intention to support sustainable value creation and value retention.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

Within the Corporate & Business Services Controlling Team, the CBS WW Controller will report to the CBS Finance Director. You will support the team in different areas:

• By providing transversal support in the management cycle (monthly closing, forecasting, budgeting processes)

• By contributing to different Group projects impacting CBS perimeter or specific ones and in particular by animating the cascading of those projects between Controlling platform and Function Finance Partners

• By being the point of contact to the Controlling platform for the Standardisation, Automation of processes

Education and Experience

• University degree by preference in Business Administration/ Finance

• Minimum 3 years of experience in a financial position

• Experience in Data analysis

Skills

Soft

• Project management : ability to autonomously contribute to a project as a team member or lead it as a project manager or ability to develop the capability.

• Interpersonal skills: ability to interface with customers, flexibility, solution provider mindset & collaboration.

Hard

• Experience in financial data and business analysis or comparable analytics position

• Advanced knowledge of Excel and/or Google Suite (GSheet/GSlides)

• Basics of ERP and BI Tools (SAP/BW being a plus)

• English mastery/practice (French being a plus)

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