Kone US | Business Controller

Responsibilities

• Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others. 
• The hiring range for this role in Austin, TX location is $179,200 - $235,200.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
• Partner closely with business and operational leaders to understand the key drivers of performance.
• Provide actionable insights, key findings and recommendations, not just numbers.
• Analyze actual performance versus budget and forecast and identify key risks, opportunities and corrective actions.
• Evaluate financial, operational and market trends to support short-, medium- and long-term decision-making.
• Drive budgeting, forecasting and business planning processes together with business leaders.
• Improve forecast accuracy through strong understanding of the underlying business drivers.
• Develop scenarios and forward-looking analysis to support decision-making and profitable growth.
• Monitor KPIs and ensure measures are meaningful, actionable and connected to business outcomes.
• Ensure timely and accurate financial and managerial reporting.
• Analyze profitability, costs, working capital, cash flow and other key business performance indicators.
• Ensure compliance with the KONE Financial Control Model (FCM), accounting standards and reporting principles.
• Support strong financial controls while continuously looking for opportunities to simplify and improve processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability, productivity and ways of working.
• Help move Finance toward greater automation, analytics and forward-looking insights.
• Collaborate across Finance and operational teams to share best practices and drive continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Strong Excel skills and experience with ERP, reporting, consolidation and BI applications (SAP, PowerBI, CoPilot, Databricks, OneStream, considered as an asset).
• Ability to manage several priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting capabilities.
• Ability to influence and challenge constructively in a matrix organization.

Kone US

Kone US is an employer hiring in India. In its own words: "We are a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry."

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in Boston Ma, Dallas Tx and Allen - Office Building - Tx.