Country Finance Manager Germany – Finanzmanager Deutschland / Leiter Finanzmanagement Deutschland (Bilanzbuchhalter, Finanzbuchhalter) or Senior Financial Accountant (f/m/x)

Job Description

DKSH's purpose is to enrich peo­ple's lives. For near­ly 160 years, we have been mar­ket­ing, sel­ling, and dis­trib­ut­ing high-qual­ity prod­ucts and brands for mul­ti­na­tion­al and For­tune 500 com­pa­nies. Through our Busi­ness Units Con­sumer Goods, Health­care, Per­for­mance Mate­ri­als, and Tech­nol­ogy, we de­liver sus­tain­able growth for our part­ners. Head­quar­tered in Swit­zer­land, DKSH is pub­lic­ly listed and oper­ates in 36 mar­kets across Asia Pa­cific, Europe, and North Amer­ica. We em­ploy over 29,000 spe­cial­ists and pro­duced net sales of CHF 11.1 bil­lion in 2023.

Are you a strategic thinker with a keen eye for de­tail and a pas­sion for finan­cial man­age­ment? Do you thrive in a fast-paced envi­ron­ment where your ex­per­tise can make a sig­nif­i­cant im­pact?

If so, we invite you to apply for the role of the Coun­try Fi­nance Man­ager Ger­many (f/m/x) in Hamburg.

In this position, you will be re­spon­si­ble for over­see­ing all as­pects of fi­nan­cial man­age­ment, ac­count­ing, and re­port­ing with­in the coun­try, en­sur­ing com­pli­ance with local and inter­na­tion­al stan­dards for our three legal enti­ties in Ger­many (Ham­burg, König­stein im Taunus, and Lem­werder).

• Oversee financial man­age­ment, ac­count­ing, and re­port­ing for our Ger­man enti­ties, in­clud­ing the im­ple­men­ta­tion of fi­nance frame­works, pol­i­cies, and pro­ces­ses in accor­dance with local/inter­na­tion­al ac­count­ing stan­dards
• Leading and motivat­ing a team of four di­rect re­ports
• Strategically plan and mon­i­tor the annu­al finan­cial bud­get, cap­i­tal ex­pen­di­tures, and liq­uid­ity to en­sure opti­mal work­ing cap­i­tal as well as min­i­miza­tion of finan­cial risk
• Monitor financial per­for­mance against tar­gets by pro­vid­ing finan­cial fore­casts, re­views, and ana­lyses, ad­dress­ing fore­cast devi­a­tions and poten­tial finan­cial chal­lenges
• Implementing effective risk man­age­ment as well as com­pli­ance prac­tices to safe­guard as­sets and min­i­mize lia­bil­ities
• Drive continuous im­prove­ments in ac­count­ing, re­port­ing, and in­ter­nal con­trol pro­cesses/sys­tems to en­hance value for stake­holders
• Collaborating closely with the Coun­try Man­age­ment Team on fi­nance-re­lated ini­tia­tives and projects

• A degree in Finance, Ac­count­ing, or a re­lated field
• Proven experience in finan­cial man­age­ment, ac­count­ing, and re­port­ing, with a min­i­mum of 7 years in a man­age­rial role
• In-depth knowledge of local as well as inter­na­tion­al ac­count­ing stan­dards and reg­u­la­tions, know­ledge of SAP is an asset
• Strong analytical and prob­lem-solv­ing skills, with the abil­ity to inter­pret com­plex finan­cial data and pro­vide action­able in­sights
• Excellent communication and in­ter­per­son­al skills, with the abil­ity to effec­tive­ly col­lab­o­rate with stake­hold­ers at all levels
• Advanced proficiency in finan­cial model­ing, fore­cast­ing, and anal­y­sis soft­ware
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dy­namic envi­ron­ment and man­age mul­ti­ple pri­or­i­ties effec­tively

• Mobile work: You can work from home up to 2 days/week
• Flexible working hours with 38.5 hours/week
• Paid ticket for the public trans­port (Deutsch­land-Ticket)
• We pay your lunch with SODEXO lunch vouchers
• We offer a health in­sur­ance cov­er­age and re­tire­ment sav­ings plan with em­ployer matching
• Company's fitness: We col­lab­o­rate with Urban Sport Club for a gym mem­ber­ship and you can lease a bike through DKSH
• And last by not least: We work in a cen­tral­ly lo­cated office at Baum­wall in Hamburg

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