Company Description
ib vogt is firmly committed to supporting the decarbonisation of the global electricity sector. The company focuses on the global development of turnkey PV plants and battery storage projects as well as the expansion of its IPP portfolio. In these areas, the company performs all integral services of the value chain from development, financing, and EPC, to O&M and asset management.
Headquartered in Berlin, Germany, ib vogt has established various offices across Europe, Asia Pacific, the Americas, and Africa as part of its presence in over 40 countries. The company works together with numerous partners globally, augmenting its in-house team of over 900 staff. ib vogt has built or has in construction more than 4 GW of PV power plants globally with a project pipeline of more than 60 GWp.
Job Description
Job Summary
The Business Controller has a key role to measure and report on the performance of Philippines entity and project/projects against budget/forecast. This role will also work on the implementation of improvements to processes and systems to ensure that the Finance function keeps pace with the growth of the business.
Job Description
- Responsible for all Philippines entity and project-related matters including but not limited to project/entity structure, financials, audit, cashflow planning, reporting process, planning, budgeting, and overall strategy
- Main contact person in Philippines to support liaise with HQ/region finance, local service providers on all Finance related matters
- Prepare and/or review full sets of accounts, bank reconciliation, month-end closing requirements
- Prepare and/or review quarter-end and year-end statutory and management accounts
- Ensure on time payment of supplier's invoice, intercompany loans and employee's reimbursements and liquidations with corresponding complete authorization
- Review corporate tax returns, VAT, and other tax-related documents for accuracy and compliance
- Partner business development and project team to provide timely and accurate monthly entity budget/forecast, project performance tracking as well as cashflow monitoring and reporting
- Support process and reporting improvement effort, including process streamlining, data structure standardization, system implementation and reporting automation etc
Qualifications
- Prior experience of at least two years as a project analyst/project controller
- Education: Finance/ Business/ Accounting Graduate, min 5 years’ experience
- Core technical skills: Accounting, project controlling, financial forecasting & statistical analysis
- Secondary technical skills (desired): financial modelling, data analytics
- Computer literacy: Advanced excel and other reporting tools such as Power Querry, Power BI would be highly desired
- Soft skills: analytical and problem-solving skills, proactive, good communication and presentation skills, meticulous, organized/ systematic, able to present financial information to a non-financial audience
- Personal attributes: high integrity
- Traits: Team player, hardworking, hands-on, confident, flexible, able to look at process improvement and has a positive learning attitude
Additional Information
- Possibility to work flexibly
- A truly international working environment with colleagues from all over the world
- An open-minded, friendly and highly motivated team
- Interesting and challenging tasks in a growing future-oriented industry
- Very good opportunities for professional and personal development
- Competitive remuneration and other benefits as per local markets
