Regional Business Controller

About the role

The Regional Business Controller serves as a senior finance business partner to regional and mining management teams. The role supports the Regional CFO North America / VP Finance GIW / Global Mining Controller in improving business performance, strengthening management accounting maturity, enhancing profitability, and supporting strategic decision-making across the North America region and the Global Mining organization.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Managing Directors and management teams to review financial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and develop corrective actions.
• Support regular business reviews and performance discussions with fact-based financial analysis and constructive challenge.
• Analyze business drivers, including sales development, margin performance, productivity, cost structure, working capital, and cash flow.
• Lead or support performance improvement initiatives for businesses requiring enhanced financial or operational focus.
• Provide financial guidance for business decisions while maintaining an independent controlling perspective.

Management Accounting Excellence

• Drive the implementation and continuous improvement of management accounting standards across regional and mining businesses.
• Promote consistent application of cost accounting methods, cost center structures, labor and machine rate calculations, overhead allocation methods, and profitability reporting.
• Assess the management accounting maturity of operating companies and develop practical improvement roadmaps.
• Support local finance organizations in improving cost transparency, product and project profitability analysis, inventory valuation, and manufacturing performance measurement.
• Identify limitations in legacy ERP systems and help develop pragmatic workarounds, reporting enhancements, and longer-term improvement concepts.

Forecasting, Business Planning, and Decision Support

• Challenge forecast and budget assumptions from a business-performance perspective, in cooperation with the Regional Controller and local finance teams.
• Support preparation and review of business plans, strategic plans, capital investment requests, and restructuring proposals.
• Prepare financial analyses and business cases for management decisions, including profitability, payback, cash flow, and sensitivity analyses.
• Support the Regional CFO and Global Mining Controller with presentations, performance reviews, strategic analyses, and special projects.

Profitability and Operational Finance

• Analyze profitability by business unit, product line, customer segment, project, market, and company where data is available.
• Support initiatives to improve margins, cost absorption, productivity, pricing discipline, working capital, and return on investment.
• Partner with Operations, Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Finance to improve financial transparency and fact-based decision-making.
• Facilitate best-practice sharing across regional and mining organizations, particularly in cost accounting, management reporting, and performance management.

Governance and Collaboration

• Work closely with the Regional Controller to ensure business analysis is aligned with group reporting, forecast timelines, and controlling standards.
• Cooperate with local controllers and finance teams to improve data quality, reporting usefulness, and business understanding.
• Support the development of regional controlling standards, tools, dashboards, and management reporting concepts.
• Perform other duties, special projects, and ad hoc analyses as assigned by the Regional CFO.