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, R&D 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 your colleagues 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, FP&A, 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.