Finance Controller

A Snapshot of Your Day

The Financial Controller for Digital Grid is responsible for building and managing financial models, planning controls, and reporting to support accurate forecasting and decision‑making. The role leads the monthly close and variance analysis, evaluates business cases through scenario modeling, drives process improvements, and enables timely, compliant actions to protect and improve financial performance.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Build robust financial models and implement planning controls to ensure accuracy, integrity, and alignment of financial and strategic plans.
• Own/support monthly close (journal entries, GL reconciliations), forecasting, and management reporting to deliver timely, decision-ready insights.
• Lead variance analysis versus plan/forecast; integrate market and competitor intelligence; recommend actions to protect/improve P&L, cash, and key KPIs.
• Evaluate business cases and strategic options with scenario/sensitivity modeling; translate findings into clear, prioritized recommendations and execution plans.
• Investigate issues across financial and operational systems; design creative, scalable process improvements that align with policies and enhance productivity.
• Establish and champion standardized frameworks and templates to resolve day-to-day conflicts, accelerate decisions, and enable fast, compliant implementation under tight deadlines.
  
  
  

What You Bring

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and established financial policies and procedures.
• Proficiency with SAP systems, including financial reporting, order entry, and project performance monitoring.
• Experience in cost accounting, cost controlling, budgeting, and financial planning.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to review market trends and competitor data, perform variance analysis, predict outcomes, and recommend corrective actions.
  
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or another business-related field. Progress toward or completion of an advanced qualification (MBA, CPA, CMA, or a Master’s degree in Accounting) is a plus.
• Several years of professional experience in financial accounting and/or project financial accounting, with a strong focus on business processes and results.
  
  
  

About The Team

At Digital Grid we provide power system engineering expertise, to help our customers identify, classify, and mitigate existing and future power system risks. We integrate Internet of Energy (IoE) in our digital solutions to enhance performance of the grid monitoring, control, and automation systems. We enable integration of renewables using next generation power electronic platforms and applications.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• You will be part of the future oriented Digital Grid team, that has a strategic importance for Siemens Energy to become a leading digital company.
• You have the rare chance of accumulating experience on all 3 key types of business at once; products, solutions and services and will have exposure to all management levels, which will give many options to develop your career
• We offer a modern workplace and highly flexibility working hybrid environment to improve work-life-integration
• We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
  
  
  

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