CP&O Front Office Specialist

Job description

The opportunity: Deliver top-notch financial planning and controlling services by analyzing metrics, identifying trends and issues, communicating insights, and recommending actions to enhance financial performance. How youll make an impact: • Serve as the primary subject-matter expert on controlling topics such as cost control, RD controlling • Take ownership for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities, resolving complex issues and ensuring proper accounting treatment within SAP and related systems. • Ensure high data integrity through advanced validation, reconciliations, and structured problem-solving. • Perform detailed operational analyses including cost trends, project variances, accrual logic, internal orders. • Provide clear, data-based explanations to managers to support operational decision-making (not strategic advisory). • Prepare and validate financial statements, internal reports, ensuring compliance with internal controls and external regulations. • Act as a trusted operational point of contact for SAP-related questions (FICO, PS, MM, SD), transactional accuracy, posting logic, and reporting procedures. • Coordinate with functions such as project execution, supply chain, procurement, and shared services to resolve operational finance issues and ensure alignment with standards. • Utilize advanced skills in SAP HANA/ECC, ERP systems, BI tools, and MS Office to drive efficient reporting and data management. • Lead or contribute to operational improvement initiatives, including: process standardization, automation of reporting steps, enhancing accuracy and timeliness of closing activities, optimization of SAP master data or posting processes • Actively identify and escalate process gaps, proposing operational improvements with clear, practical solutions. • Model Hitachi Energys values of Safety, Integrity, and Responsibility in all financial processes. • Ensure strict compliance with internal controls, documentation requirements, and approved procedures. • Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines. • Living Hitachi Energys core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for yourcolleagues and the business. Your background: • Should have Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or similar • Must have 5 8 years of experience in Controlling, FPA, or Financial Operations in a multinational environment. • Strong SAP HANA skills. • Strong expertise in ERP-based controlling processes, financial closing, and complex operational reporting. • Proven ability to independently handle complex tasks and lead process execution with minimal supervision. • Experience guiding or reviewing the work of other finance professionals. • Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and a high commitment to data accuracy. • Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken). • Strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and discipline in delivering high-quality outputs. • Proficiency in both spoken written English language is required.