Financial Controller

Requirements:

• Degree in finance, accounting or economics. 
• 3-5+ years in financial control, FP&A or project controlling, preferably in IT services, consulting or another project-based business. 
• Hands-on SAP experience (Controlling/ Project System/ CATS or equivalent) and an understanding of how time recording feeds billing and reporting.
• Solid understanding of the order-to-cash cycle and of commercial terms in service contracts: MSA/SOW, PO, rate cards, T&M vs fixed price.
• Advanced Excel. 
  
• Power BI - building and maintaining models, not only using reports; Power Query and DAX. 
  
• Ability to trace a number back to its source across several systems and explain the difference.
• Experience writing process documentation and instructions for non-finance users. 
• English B2 or higher.

Responsibilities:

Project Economics (costs, time, rates, revenue)

• Monitor project economics end to end: direct costs, reported time, sales and cost rates, revenue, gross profit and margin.
• Control allocations against reported time (CATS) and invoiced hours. Investigate gaps between SAP, CATS and customer data, and follow up on unbilled work to prevent revenue leakage.
• Check project setup in the system: roles, periods, team composition, extensions and changes.
  
• Maintain and develop the sales rate/ cost rate model used as the baseline for gross profit calculation.

Contracts, Projects and Revenue Alignment 

• Make sure every project is backed by a valid contract (MSA/SOW, customer PO) and that project revenue matches what is booked in Accounting.
• Review commercial terms per project (PO limits and validity, billing conditions, rates) and keep manual control over terms not yet covered by structured fields in SAP.
• Track cases where delivery starts before agreements, SOW or PO are signed, and follow up with PMs and Sales until the documents are in place.
• Reconcile project revenue with Accounting as part of month-end close.

Reporting

• Projects (for PMs, CDO, CFO, CEO): monthly profitability by project, covering revenue, direct costs, gross profit and margin, and adjustments, with explanations of key variances.
• People (for Team Managers): chargeability, utilization and bench.
• Finance (for CFO, CEO): overall revenue and margin, month-end results, key risks and deviations.
• Handle ad-hoc analytical requests from Sales, Team Managers, PMs, the CFO and the CDO.
  

Report Automation

• Automate recurring reports so stakeholders can access up-to-date data themselves instead of waiting for manual monthly files.
• Build and develop the Power BI model: SAP OData and dataflows, transformations, source reconciliation and troubleshooting.

Data Quality and Processes

• Investigate discrepancies between SAP, CATS, BambooHR and Accounting. Find the root cause (system, process or data) and assess the impact on invoicing, reporting and profitability.
• Drive corrections in source and master data, and follow up on open system issues.
• Stabilize and document the Closed Deal to Invoice process, and design and implement controls.

SAP S/4HANA implementation

• Support the Controlling and Order-to-Cash implementation: process review, testing, analysis of system and data issues, identification of missing requirements and workarounds, and coordination with the SAP team.