EMEA Finance Director
Bekaert
- Zwevegem, West-Vlaanderen
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- You will act as financial business partner for the business stakeholders: sales, operations, supply chain, procurement, ...
- You will be responsible for planning, reporting and analysis of periodic financial performance, budgeting, strategic exercises and investment projects.
- You will report to the VP Finance Rubber Reinforcement (RR), who reports to the Bekaert CFO, and you are member of the RR Finance Leadership Team (LT)
- You would act as a member of the RR EMEA management team with P&L responsibility (annual revenues of 800mio€), and have 5 direct reports (over multiple sites).
- You would be working closely together with (getting support from) peers of the RR Finance Leadership Team: global costing manager, global commercial finance manager and FP&A manager.
- Playing a key role in the Bekaert Finance Transformation, incl. the Digital transformation
- You hold a master's degree in business administration, Economic Sciences, Sciences or comparable by experience.
- You have 8+ years of experience as business (P&L) controller in a manufacturing/industrial and international environment (automotive sector experience would be a bonus); have a delivery record of accomplishment in, and understanding of financial, market & trade and macro-economic trends that influence the business in relevant industry or industries.
- You are able to co-create, align and execute on the strategic vision and plan of your unit as part of the Bekaert strategy and are able to drive and engage a diverse community through influencing rather than hierarchy.
- You have effective communication skills and even better listening skills that allows you to get the voice of the stakeholders.
- You have an analytical mindset & capabilities to deep-dive financial analysis.
- You can navigate your network to deliver and to cut through complexity, based on customer focus and an agile way of working.
- You demonstrate a “better together” spirit while you support, challenge, drive execution and deliver results.
- You challenge the status quo, stimulate innovation and continuous improvement. You are not afraid to challenge your stakeholders.
- You can co-lead the transformation of our Finance function across our global footprint, and together with your team and other stakeholders in the external field (customers, suppliers, partners…), the business and functions; you build the necessary capabilities for the future.
- You are fluent in English (oral and written).
- You are willing to travel to different locations across Europe.
- Location for the role: Europe