Manager Financial Governance EMEA - Hannover, Deutschland - Clarios

Beschreibung

At Clarios we are producing the world's best batteries essential for the evolving future of transportation. Every third car battery in the world is produced by us.

Join our team and be part of the success story of VARTA With your analytical and process-oriented approach, your excellent cross-cultural communication skills and business acumen together we can strive towards our strategy to create wins for our customers every day.

Ready to power your career within a fast pace global team and bring your own ideas to life? Then take on the challenge and become part of our winning Finance Governance teamBenefits:

What we offer youAs a technology leader with our strong VARTA brand, Clarios notably lives on the creativity, capability and satisfaction of its employees.

Therefore, we offer people with drive and power many good reasons to join us:

Exciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international future-oriented environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement and sustainability.

Arrange your working hours and breaks flexible via our flexible and trust-based working hours model and combine your professional and private life even better according to our above average number of vacation days, mobile work policy and company kindergarten.

A competitive remuneration package, including additional payments such as holiday, Christmas as well as company pension scheme.

Your well-being is very important to us: Take advantage of our preventive health care offers such as fitness center, physiotherapist, modern office environment, healthy canteen, team and company events or hobby clubs.

Stay fit whilst at the same time positively contributing to our environment:
Lease your company bike.
Our well-advanced onboarding process and buddy program supports you to quickly grow into the position and team.

By using the offering in our Internal Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program you will be able to further grow professionally and personally.

Last, but not least we support you in relocating and finding a flat in location surrounding if appliable and depending on individual factors.

Your contributionAs the Manager Financial Governance EMEA (m/f/d) you will contribute to effective global financial governance with a focus on assisting EMEA to understand and meet its financial internal control and policy requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), ensuring conformance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as well as all local statutory and regulatory accounting requirements for Clarios EMEA.

In this position you will support a unified global financial governance team by conducting internal control process improvement projects, serving as a specialist on Clarios internal control requirements, conducting internal control assurance activity for Management, acting as a liaison between Clarios and our external and internal auditors and increasing financial governance standardization and effectiveness globally.

The Manager Financial Governance will be based in our Clarios EMEA headquarters office in Hanover, Germany.


Key Responsibilities:

What you will doAssists finance Managers in ensuring effective financial and operational internal controls are in place and operating as designedMaintenance and management of the DOA MatrixEnsure all countries within the area of responsibility meet the SOX requirementsSupport the local management with the documentation of the key controls for all process matricesWork with local management in the evaluation of the effectiveness of internal controls and support them in developing action plans to cover such identified gaps in a timely mannerSupport local operations during other departments' projects and initiatives that impact the internal control and financial reporting environment (e.g., ERP changes etc).Work with internal and external auditors for SOX purposes, internal and external audits, statutory and US GAAP audit engagements and limited reviews etc.

Review with the local Finance Managers' internal and external audit reports and assist local management in developing responses to these reports.

Also support local operations in developing action for items noted in these internal and external audit reports.

Follow-up on ensuring action plans developed are complied with in a timely mannerPerform periodic balance sheet reviews of operations within Europe.

Follow-up to ensure remediation plans are completed timelyEnsure local entities are providing data in compliance with US GAAP and Clarios policies and proceduresTake a lead role in strategic projects as directed by the Director of Financial Governance and Director EMEA Finance and ITAssist in the creation and adoption of new policies and procedures, including having an active role in the population and updating of documents in the Business Operating System (BOS).Support the development of financial governance and policy communication and training strategies and delivery.

Support Senior Management in the preparation and timely submission of the quarterly SOX Management Representation Letters (MRL).


Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
What we look forUniversity degree in Business, Finance or AccountingSolid years of working experience within an American multinational corporation or at Big 4, including functional expertise with US GAAP, SOX, Audits and Business ControllingProven competency in working with IT systems related to financial functions and operational areas such as SAP, QAD, OneStream, Blackline, AMCO is a plusAbility to demonstrate business acumen, understand business needs, developing action plans and putting those into actionAbility to build strong working relationships with various functions and levels in an international environmentStrong analytical and cross-cultural communication as well as project management skillsEffective in driving accountability and resultsExcellent proficiency in working with Microsoft Office Package, Microsoft Teams and OutlookFluency in English language – both in written and spoken, German language skills are a plusWillingness to travel up to 25% within EMEA#LI-MF2You want to learn more about the position and our EMEA region? Check out our regional page and get in touch with our recruiting team

About Clarios:
Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. We power progress through ever-smarter solutions for virtually every kind of vehicle.

With 16,000 employees in over 140 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives.

We answer to the planet with a rigorous ESG focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry.

We recover, recycle and reuse up to 99% of our battery materials. Clarios is a Brookfield portfolio company.


To all recruitment agencies:
Clarios does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Please do not forward resumes/CVs to our careers email addresses, Clarios employees or any other company location. Clarios is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.

Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination.

If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email Germany, HannoverType:
Full time