Regional Business Controller

Company Overview

KSB is a leading supplier of pumps, valves and related service. Our reliable, high-efficiency products are used in applications wherever fluids need to be transported or shut off, covering everything from building services, industry and water transport to waste water treatment, power plant processes and mining. Founded in 1871 in Frankenthal, Germany, the company has a presence on all continents with its own sales and marketing organisations and manufacturing facilities.

Around the globe, more than 190 service centres and around 3,500 service specialists are on hand to provide local inspection, servicing, maintenance and repair services under the KSB Supreme Serv brand. Innovative technology that is the fruit of KSB’s research and development activities forms the basis for the company’s success. At KSB, we recognise that it is people who actually make the difference – the people we employ and the people we serve.

This is why we are committed to equal rights and treatment worldwide and never lose sight of the aspects ecology and sustainability when manufacturing our products.

Regional Business Controller (FP&A)

Regional Finance Officer, KSB North America

Richmond, VA

The Regional Business Controller (FP&A) is a senior Finance business partner responsible for FP&A, business-performance management, management accounting, profitability, and decision support across North America. Reporting directly to the Regional CFO North America, the role partners with the Regional President, Managing Directors, and management teams to turn financial and operational information into forward-looking insight, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and drive measurable performance improvement.

The role complements the Regional Financial Controller: that role focuses on financial integrity, reporting governance, accounting coordination, tax, audit, and controls; the Regional Business Controller (FP&A) focuses on planning, business performance, management accounting, profitability, operational Finance, and value creation.

• Lead the business-performance side of the North America forecast, budget, and long-range planning processes and develop realistic, transparent, and actionable outlooks.
• Challenge commercial, operational, and financial assumptions; identify risks, opportunities, sensitivities, and trends; and translate them into scenarios and management actions.
• Analyze actual performance versus budget, forecast, prior year, and strategic expectations, including key drivers, cash-flow implications, and impact on the outlook.
• Partner with the Regional Financial Controller on planning and reporting cycles: the Financial Controller coordinates process, consolidation, deadlines, quality, and Group submission requirements; the Business Controller owns business challenge, assumptions, interpretation, and performance follow-up.

• Act as a key Finance business partner to the Regional CFO, Regional President, Managing Directors, and management teams across North America.
• Provide clear answers to the core management questions: what is happening, why it is happening, what is likely to happen next, and what management should do.
• Identify underperformance, performance gaps, and value-creation opportunities; work with management to define corrective actions, measurable targets, responsibilities, and timelines. Business management remains accountable for execution, while the Business Controller challenges and tracks progress and financial impact.
• Support business plans, investment cases, restructuring and footprint proposals, pricing, capacity, make-or-buy,…