Finance Professional (m/f/d)

KWS is one of the world's leading plant breeding companies. Nearly 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.68 billion in the fiscal year 2023/2024. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for almost 170 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for sugarbeet, corn, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants' resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €300 million last fiscal year in research and development.

• Financial statements review during the quarterly closing process for group consolidation, and year-end local statutory audits. Perform analytical review of the financials and investigate differences or unexpected deviations.
• Supporting other closing activities such as performing cut-off testing of revenue, analysis of results including deeper dive into revenue, COGs and functional costs, as well as the balance sheet and cashflow statements
• Coordination of audits including annual external audits for IFRS and Group consolidation, as well as internal audits. In addition to this, attend inventory counts, and key process interviews. Main point of contact in case of escalations
• Review of tax returns on a regular basis and serving as a link between local tax advisors, internal accountants, and Expert Hub Tax
• Preparing liquidity planning on a monthly basis, monitoring of cash and debt balances, managing of working capital of the entities
• Preparing the analysis for credit committees, including calculating proposed credit limits and supporting the business partners in running and coordinating the committee sessions
• Review of monthly AR dashboard with the business to ensure that cash has been collected and cleared timely
• Scrutinizing the intercompany dashboards ensuring the timely payment and the appropriate settlement of intercompany invoices in line with liquidity planning and FX guidelines.
• Supporting the business partners finance in ad-hoc projects, in particular in analysis
• Supporting the business partners finance in preparing for the board meetings, country teams, vockpit meetings

• Profound knowledge in accounting, financing, credit management and taxes
• A sound experience in the field of finance or finance and controlling in an international environment
• An in-depth and broad understanding of finance and finance-related strategies paired with the ability to translate these into business requirements
• Ability to analyze finance data to develop goals, drive key business needs and objectives
• Experience in project management
• IT literate in Microsoft, SAP or other ERP systems
• Great communication skills paired with great stakeholder management skills
• Excellent command of English, German language skills (B1) are nice to have

• Insights into the area of finance of a large, international company
• The opportunity to learn a lot in a short time
• An open corporate culture with a family atmosphere

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