Senior Controller, Research and Development

The position will report to the Senior Director Functional Cost Controlling and will partner very closely with the various Vice Presidents in R&D to support our Innovation strategy development as well as day to day management of operations. In addition, the Operations Controller ensures strong financial compliance, drives productivity initiatives and ensures the function operates at a high level of excellence. He or she takes and active role in coordinating financial priorities across our 4-5 R&D sites.

***What the Senior Controller will do**:

- Takes a leading role in the R&D leadership team to set and deliver on business objectives and strategies
- Manages relevant planning and analysis processes such as long-term planning (BSR), annual budget, outlooks and forecasts, monthly closing
- Ensures transparent cost management across all sites including benchmarking internally and externally
- Analyses the department performance, recommends benchmarks, and highlights key opportunities and risks and works closely with other functions in developing plans to capture opportunities and mitigate risks
- Partners effectively with other functions to optimize Project Lifecycle Management, reduce operating variances, maximize return on all capital and people investments and to increase cost productivity
- Participate in weekly PLM meetings, understand agreed business cases and ensure that they are reflected correctly in Project Management system.
- Review Projects on frequency based on materiality, flag potentials overruns and conclude on actions
- Collaborates with other Finance teams to ensure state of the art financial systems and processes that maximize functional efficiency
- Champions productivity and efficiency in all areas of the organization.

**What you bring**:

- Experience_
- 3-4 years of accounting/finance/business service experience in a multinational environment preferable in the cost driven and disciplined industry
- Ability to be a "Business Partner" with business mindset to help define business strategy and plans to actively manage day to day operations
- Strong formal and informal leadership skills to effectively define and implement a functional agenda
- Personal competencies_
- Highly effective at building and sustaining excellent relationships at multiple levels, globally, throughout the organization as well as externally
- Ethics, confidence, managing ambiguity and being open to learning
- Bias towards action and results delivery which are critical in a highly performance-oriented environment; passion for quality and efficiency and a strong “can-do” attitude
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and intercultural skills working with global stakeholders
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities

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**Who we are***:
At WS Audiology, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful?

We can't wait to hear from you.

WS Audiology is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.