Sales Controller Europe

In this role, you will report to the Regional Finance Director for Europe and serve as a key operational and strategic partner to the regional M&S leadership team. You willbe responsible formonitoring, analyzing, and interpreting market, customer, and sales order data to enable the M&S organization in the region to evaluate business alternatives and drive profitable demand order growth aligned with globalobjectives.

Howyou’llmake an impact

Monitor and analyze progress onsalesKPIs, including order intake and pipeline development at regional, country, segment, and account levels, providing insights to support strategic and operational decision-making.

Lead the regional sales forecasting process, ensuring data accuracy and reliablevolumeprojections.

Support the annual budget cycle and periodic financial outlooks in close collaboration with CMD/LSMs and regional/global BU and M&S teams.

Drive and support M&S productivity optimization, sales efficiency, and sustainable overdue reduction.

Facilitate regular performance reviews with regional sales teams.

Deliveraccurateandtimelyregional sales reports, dashboards, and in-depth analyses.

Improve transparency through continuous enhancement of reporting tools and insights.

Providetimelymonthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc sales reports to management.

Conduct deep-dive analyses on market trends, customer performance, and portfolio mix.

Furtherdevelop dashboards and BI tools to improve transparency and insights.

Identifyopportunities to streamline and standardize salescontrollingprocesses.

Drive digitalization of analytics, reporting, and forecasting tools.

Support capability building within the sales organization on financial topics.

Lead continuous improvement initiatives andoptimizeprocesses through integration and digitalization of tools supporting analysis and information intelligence.

Your background

A Bachelor’s orMaster’s degree in Finance or Business Administration.

Good understanding of what drives the business with strong business acumen.

Ambitious attitude with a strong analytical mindset andahighsense of responsibility.

Experience working in an international environment.

Strongteamplayer with strong collaboration skills.

English is a prerequisite as you will beoperatingin an international environment.

Strong knowledge of MS Office with experience in analytical tools such as Power BI, etc.

Job type Full time

Experience Experienced

Job function Finance

Contract Regular

Publication date

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About Hitachi Energy

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.