Business Controller

Company Overview Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable.

Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.  Job Overview Are you ready to make your next career move to join our team as our Business Controller for KONE Americas in the Central West District?

Are you passionate about turning financial insights into business actions?

Do you enjoy identifying opportunities for improvement and proactively communicating actionable insights?

Are you energized by forecasting, analyzing trends, and translating complex financial information into clear recommendations?

Do you thrive in areas where you are facilitating financial planning and analysis processes?

Are you committed to ensuring correctness of financial reporting according to standards and guidelines?

Are you effective in collaborating with various stakeholders and functions?

Do you demonstrate a passion to drive efficiency and effectiveness, sharing best practices, and also learning from others?

If you answered a resounding YES to these questions, then we have an amazing opportunity for you!  Location of position:
Central West District (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Denver). Business partnering & performance

Partner closely with business and operational leaders to understand the key drivers of performance.

Provide actionable insights, key findings and recommendations, not just numbers.

Analyze actual performance versus budget and forecast and identify key risks, opportunities and corrective actions.

Challenge the business constructively and help leaders translate financial insights into operational actions.

Evaluate financial, operational and market trends to support short-, medium- and long-term decision-making.

Planning & forecasting

Drive budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes together with business leaders.

Improve forecast accuracy through strong understanding of the underlying business drivers.

Develop scenarios and forward-looking analysis to support decision-making and profitable growth.

Monitor KPIs and ensure measures are meaningful, actionable and connected to business outcomes.

Financial control & reporting

Ensure timely and accurate financial and managerial reporting.

Analyze profitability, costs, working capital, cash flow and other key business performance indicators.

Ensure compliance with the KONE Financial Control Model (FCM), accounting standards and reporting principles.

Support strong financial controls while continuously looking for opportunities to simplify and improve processes.

Driving improvement

Identify opportunities to improve profitability, productivity and ways of working.

Help move Finance toward greater automation, analytics and forward-looking insights.

Collaborate across Finance and operational teams to share best practices and drive continuous improvement.

Influence change in a matrix organization and help turn improvement opportunities into measurable results.

Other Hiring requirements

You are a finance professional who combines strong analytical capability with commercial curiosity and influencing skills.

Ideally, you bring:

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business or a related field.
5+ years of relevant progressive finance experience, with business controlling,…