Business Unit Controller

Role accountabilities:

• Lead high performing teams across the GEC and GSSC Locations to deliver all aspects of Financial management & Control for the Global Excellence and shared service centres
• Be a key member of the Global Excellence leadership team to support effective decision making and ensure the right strategic and operational choices are made
• Lead the GEC/GSSC annual budget /plan and work with the GEC Directors and GSSC Director to deliver the agreed financial targets for each business unit, with a no surpriseculture, fostering the spirit of continuous improvement
• Drive team performance setting goals, priorities and internal cadence to ensure the wider FP&A and Group control deadlines and objectives are met
• Work with the finance pillars to ensure the GEC and GSSC is compliant from an accounting and tax perspective
• Be a key stakeholder in driving the wider Finance community strategy, including company-wide alignment on best practices
• Lead on initiatives to drive improvements in planning and forecasting accuracy
• Develop strong relationships with the Global Business Area leaders to understand their (and their clients) business needs, and encourage / attract regional colleagues to work with the GECs and GSSC
• Work with GBA Finance and Operational teams to create the right commercial environment to support growth of the GEC and GSSC capability
• Support the delivery of the People & Culture plan to enable a People First culture that progresses the business towards being an employer of choice and a great place to work
• Above country Finance PiP for governance and key finance control issues across the GEC and GSSC Countries
• The Business unit controller will lead high performing teams to drive the following responsibilities
• Effective cost control of Enabling function costs including Technology and Workplace, supporting Enabling Function Controlling Director and Global Function heads
• Responsive analysis based on the company needs and latest strategy
• Provide a link to the Finance transformation team, supporting delivery of the finance strategy
• Qualifications & Experience:
• he candidate should have of a minimum of 15 years of experience ideally in an international, listed company
• Preference will be given to candidates with a Certified Accounting, Controlling or MBA qualification and significant experience gained in an international setting
• Other required experience and competencies for this role:
• Experience of managing and developing high performing teams
• Mature personality with strong and independent point of view
• Excellent communication, strong negotiating and influencing skills
• Self-starter with strong collaboration and team skills
• Enthusiastic, pro-active and result driven attitude
• IT literate with ERP, forecasting and Planning tool experience
• Native language: unspecified, but fluency in English is a must
• For this role Arcadis values professional experience across the following priority areas:
• Breadth of experience: Working internationally, across different industries and business lines and/or functions, managing projects impacting people/issues/solutions across orga006Eizational boundaries
• Driving innovation: Involved in generating and driving innovation, engaging with clients on new business models and revenue streams, working with alliances and ecosystems to deliver the best outcomes
• Data and technology: Adopting data-driven decision making, leveraging data to create and demonstrate value
• Tech savvy and comfortable and curious about technologies
• Aligned to the Arcadis Leadership model we seek Arcadians with a strong fit to our leadership success profile, to build and drive our culture of inclusion, accountability, human-centricity, and sustainability
• Successful Arcadians will possess strong learning agility, combined with a balanced mix of being curious, driving success and igniting passion

Be curious:

• Demonstrate and develop curiosity in oneself and others, bringing clients and Arcadians on a journey of discovery and co-creation
• Have a global, strategic, and future thinking mindset
• Are digitally-savvy, entrepreneurial and innovative
• Build organizational networks that are value-adding, engaging and purposeful
• Incorporate a human-centric, experimentation-led and continuous learning mindset to lead innovation and transformation
• Actively engage diverse points of view and manage healthy issues-based conflict
• Drive success:
• Create a sense of shared ownership and accountability balancing this with decisiveness and holding others to account for delivery
• Take ownership for own responsibility, creating clarity and motivating and aligning others
• Internalize organizational goals, making them ones own personal stretch goals