KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry.
We are looking for a Business Controller, Products and Purchasing for Supply Chain Europe based in Espoo or Hyvinkää, Finland or Pero, Italy.
The role supports key business leaders and ensures financial control and profitability of the product life cycle.Preferred start would be in early Q******.ResponsibilitiesDrive business partnering with a strong outside-in mindset, ensuring a deep understanding of the business logic, value creation drivers, and dependencies across all key operational processes, relationships, and performance metrics.Act as the key finance professional and trusted advisor across the full value chain, promoting strong finance understanding and full chain profitability thinking within the business organization, and ensuring financial implications are considered in all decision-making.Partner closely with supply chain management, technology, product management, purchasing, and logistics to steer product cost and profitability performance across the entire product life cycle—from roadmap planning and business case preparation to execution, product lifecycle management, and agevolazioni realization—ensuring end-to-end financial impact is fully assessed.Manage and analyze supply chain financial performance with full chain transparency, providing insights on product cost, full chain profitability, logistics costs, inventory, and other key indicators that support management decision-making and drive value optimization across the entire value stream.Lead Product Cost and Profitability planning and analysis, covering material, manufacturing, logistics, and other value chain cost components, ensuring holistic understanding of cost drivers and improvement opportunities.Facilitate the planning and forecasting processes.Perform or organize the execution of the business controlling tasks as defined in the KONE Financial Control Model.
Requirements
At least 5 years of professional experience, preferably in an industrial environment, including product cost and profitability planning, analysis and business partnering with supply chain management, technology, product management, procurement, and logistics functions.Excellent analytical and communication skills, coupled with the ability to build trust and collaboration among business leaders and stakeholders.Ability to work and influence in a complex matrix organization with a wide range of stakeholders.Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge.SAP ERP (FICO) and BI knowledge is a must.Good organizational, process planning and change management skills.Fluent in English.M.
Sc.
in Finance or Business Administration.
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