Zone Business Performance Controller

Do you want to help shape the future of healthcare? Our name, Siemens Healthineers, was selected to honor our people who dedicate their energy and passion to this cause. It reflects their pioneering spirit combined with our long history of engineering in the ever-evolving healthcare industry.

We offer you a flexible and dynamic environment with opportunities to go beyond your comfort zone in order to grow personally and professionally. Sound interesting? **Then come and join our global team as Zone Business Performance Controller & Finance Digitalization Lead (GRIP TITLE: Controlling Professional) based in South Africa. This is a MESA Role with Zone Responsibility.**

Our global team: Siemens Healthineers is a leading global medical technology company. 50,000 dedicated colleagues in over 70 countries are driven to shape the future of healthcare. An estimated 5 million patients across the globe benefit every day from our innovative technologies and services in the areas of diagnostic and therapeutic imaging, laboratory diagnostics and molecular medicine, as well as digital health and enterprise services.

Our culture: Our culture embraces different perspectives, open debate, and the will to challenge convention. Change is a constant aspect of our work. We aspire to lead the change in our industry rather than just react to it. That’s why we invite you to take on new challenges, test your ideas, and celebrate success.

**Your tasks and responsibilities**
- ** Performance Controlling**:

- aggregating information on the monthly closing / forecasting process of all associated countries
- for the annual budget process of the Siemens Healthineers MESA including the alignment of all relevant stakeholders in the assigned countries and with headquarter
- representing Productivity methodology and supporting to secure valid productivity reporting following SHS guidelines and regulations
- Create monthly management reporting and preparation of monthly performance dialogs with associated countries
- Ensure Implementation of standard controlling and reporting processes within Zone MESA and all associated countries
- Responsible for Controlling of key business indicators Order intake, Revenue, Gross Profit, SG&A, Profit, OWC, NCE & cash flow
- Ensure proper entries of SAP processes and perform adjustment/correction if necessary.
- Support MESA leadership team in presentations or adhoc requests and special projects
- Ensure close collaboration with Business area responsible and functions
- ** Finance Digitalization & Analytics**:

- Manage and be responsible for identifying relevant insights and compiling analytical reports and visualizations that enable stakeholder/management to make sound decisions
- Drive and implement Finance Digitalization activities within Zone/ Countries
- Create a Zone specific FI Digitalization roadmap
- Responsible for the Setup of FI Digitalization processes to administrate the collection of ideas
- Responsible for the creation of transparency around FI Digitalization
- Ensure regular identification of new Digitalization use cases, adaption of existing ones (from other Zones)
- Responsible for prioritization of Digitalization use cases and existence of business cases
- Support in implementing process improvements, regional / HQ projects initiatives and new business tools

**Your qualifications and experience**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance / Accounting or equivalent
- Qualification CA (SA) preference
- Minimum 5 years of experience within a finance function in the fields of Performance Controlling, Accounting and or Finance Data Analysis
- Knowledge of IFRS accounting principles
- Experience in data analytic methods and tools in finance
- Deep knowledge of ERP system (SAP), MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), Power BI or other data analytics tools, SAP Analysis for Office (AfO) and SAP analytics Cloud (SAC)

**Your attributes and skills**
- Excellent communication skills to provide transparency in a complex matrix environment
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead and engage diverse teams

**GDPR**

**Diversity and Inclusion**

Siemens Healthineers is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, gender, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, and other categories protected by federal, state or local law.

At Siemens Healthineers, we take our difference to heart. We are a strongly knit team of 50,000 Healthineers all driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of healthcare. We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to equality for all. Our people are all talented in their own unique way. Our diverse backgrounds, experiences and ideas enable us to push boun