R&D Controller

** What's the job?
** This position is an active business partner and trusted advisor who assists, leads the business Must Win Battles (MWB), North Star initiatives within the NA Innovative Hub. In this role, you will provide both strategic and tactical guidance to the NA VP of R&D and applicable Department Managers. The essential functions include:
Financial Reporting and Analysis:

- Coordinate and analyze monthly forecasts- - Responsible for the consolidated spend, analysis across the 4 business groups
- Government projects - dissect financial data, ensuring accuracy, reconciliation of the numbers and procedural compliance. Coordinate, organize, support any government-related audit of project spend.

- Prepare annual rates and analyze report progress towards budget deliverables, financial performance achievements, trends, identify risks & opportunities to drive improvements.

- Prepares "what-ifs" simulations, recommend course of action, ensure accuracy and integrity of the entity project spend, local balance sheet and off-balance sheet items Strategic Leadership & Planning
- Coordinate planning and prepare analysis for the financial cycles (Budget, RF, Long Range Plan) and reporting to Business and Regional leadership, present alternative scenarios with risks and opportunities ; recommend course of action
- Determine, implement and monitor, in conjunction with leaders, targeted goals for OPEX, CAPEX optimization and growth to ensure alignment of key metrics.

- Actively manage the capital requirement process & forecasting (CIP Aging, Payback)- - Monitors the expenditure by project (R&D), new product introductions, evaluating risk and expected returns- - Process Improvement
- Consult with internal customers to implement relevant data analytics systems
- Propose and support digital transformation to increase standardization and improve infrastructure
- Enforce ownership and accountability of internal service providers (IT/Purchasing/TIP/GBS) for processes within business scope
- Partner with cross-functional teams to drive business results
- -Coaching and Mentoring
- Coach and develop the finance team members within scope to understand business context, identify opportunities for improvement and take on stretch assignments. Finance Systems & Allocations- - Consolidation and reporting: analyze spending and evolution vs. forecast, budget commitment and prior year, highlighting the heat map across the region identifying risk and opportunity areas.

- - Prepare monthly reporting packages (comments and presentations), attend VP monthly calls.

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- ** What do you bring?
** To be successful within this role, the BU Controller should have the following education, experience, and core competencies:

-- - Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance from a four-year college or university.

- Master's degree in finance/business development or equivalent experience.

- Self-starting individual and ability to work with limited supervision
- Strong communication and influence skills to effectively collaborate up, down and transversally in a complex organization
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities- - Balanced Scorecard approach- - Proactive & Innovative
- Collaborative, creative thinking and passion are key attributes.

- - Fluent in English. Other languages are a plus.

- Knowledgeable in government contracting (cost principles, invoicing, indirect rate submissions, & audits) - Ability to travel