- Department: Finance
- Location: Oradea, Romania
- Location type: Hybrid (regular office and home office days)
Role summary
The Global Key User / Process Expert Controlling acts as the central authority and subject-matter expert for controlling processes across the entire group. The role is responsible for deeply understanding the company’s business models, organizational structures, and controlling practices in all divisions and countries, in order to define, harmonize, and safeguard global controlling standards.
The position bridges Business, Finance, and IT, ensuring that business requirements are consistently translated into SAP-supported processes while preserving the integrity of global standards. The role also governs process changes and ensures long-term process stability after implementation.
What you'll do
Global Process Expertise & Business Understanding
- Act as a controlling process expert with an in-depth understanding of end-to-end business and finance processes across all divisions and countries.
- Build and maintain strong knowledge of local business specifics while maintaining a holistic, group-wide perspective.
- Analyze and understand existing local controlling processes (“as-is”) in different countries and business units.
Process Standardization & Harmonization
- Drive the definition, harmonization, and continuous improvement of global controlling processes and standards.
- Balance global standardization with justified local requirements, ensuring transparency and consistency across regions.
- Ensure that group-wide process frameworks are clearly defined, documented, and aligned with business and compliance requirements.
SAP Enablement & IT Collaboration
- Translate business and controlling process requirements into functional specifications for SAP in close collaboration with IT teams.
- Support IT in correctly implementing business processes in SAP, ensuring that system solutions fully reflect defined standards.
- Identify and propose SAP-based solutions for complex or country-specific cases without deviating from global standards.
Global Rollout & Local Implementation
- Lead and support the implementation of globally defined controlling processes at country level.
- Work closely with local finance and controlling teams to understand current practices and guide the transition to new standards.
- Act as a change agent during rollouts, ensuring acceptance, understanding, and correct execution of new processes.
Process Governance & Monitoring
- Monitor implemented processes to ensure they are executed correctly and consistently across all countries.
- Establish and maintain controls to ensure adherence to global standards and process compliance.
- Identify deviations and initiate corrective measures where necessary.
Change Management & Decision Authority
- Act as the central gatekeeper for all controlling-related process change requests after global implementation.
- Evaluate change requests (including legal or regulatory-driven changes) and decide whether, how, and to what extent they can be implemented.
- Ensure that approved changes do not compromise the integrity and stability of the globally defined process core.
Training & Knowledge Transfer
- Develop and deliver training concepts, materials, and sessions for end users and key users worldwide.
- Ensure sustainable knowledge transfer and long-term process maturity across the organization.
What you'll bring
- University degree in Business Administration with a focus on Controlling / Finance, Business Informatics, or a comparable qualification.
- 5 years of professional experience in Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) across multiple functional areas.
- Experience working in an international, multi-entity environment with diverse business models.
- Strong expertise in controlling process design, standardization, and implementation.
- Deep knowledge of SAP controlling processes and systems.
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into system solutions.
- Strong analytical, governance, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to manage complexity and resolve country-specific issues within a standardized framework.
- Excellent English skills (written and spoken).
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office 365, with advanced expertise in Excel (Power Query, Power Pivot), PowerPoint, and Word.
Knowledge & Skills advantage
- IBM Analytics knowledge – advantage
- Qlik Sense/Qlik View
How to apply
If you are interested in this opportunity, send us your CV on angajari@ro.ebmpapst.com or contact us on our phone number 0724 396 637.
