Financial Controller

At Konecranes, we believe that great customer experience is built on the people behind the Konecranes name. Everything we do, we do with passion and drive. We believe diversity drives business success and is the foundation for our growth. We welcome different backgrounds and skills that enrich our community and we promote a place where we can ALL be ourselves. This is what makes Konecranes a unique place to work.

 We are currently looking for a Financial Controller for the Philippines, who will be the strategic finance partner responsible for end-to-end financial planning, analysis, reporting, and performance management. This role partners with internal and external stakeholders to drive data-driven decision-making, optimize profitability, monitor budget adherence, and ensure robust financial governance across the business. The ideal candidate combines strong technical accounting and financial analysis skills with business acumen and cross-functional collaboration capabilities.

Your key role:

• To manage financial (external) accounting of the company or group of companies (GL and closings)
• Manage both direct and indirect taxes, and monitor timely filing per local regulation.
• Take and own responsibility for financial risk management and internal controls for related processes and securing adequate overall internal controls
• Ensure that the company, in all of its financial transactions, follows the laws and regulations of the local public authorities.
• Acting as contact point to FSSC and monitoring the quality of the data it produces
• Maintaining good co-operation with local auditors and the Group’s auditing team
• Preparing statutory accounts and closings based on the Group’s bookkeeping framework and closing package as well as the local bookkeeping principles.
• Preparing annual tax declarations and other control of monthly/interim tax payments. Acting as a contact point of tax audits.
• Updating the transfer pricing documentation together with Group Tax Management. Acting as a contact point for Head of Tax Management.
• Preparing mandatory reports and declarations to authorities (central bank, statistical center, Government etc.)
• Managing cash and co-operating with business of currency hedging of the company, acting as a contact point to Group Treasury
• Arranging internal controls for financial processes to prevent any fraud against the company’s cash and assets.
• To secure that the company has its own risk control methods and routines in line with the Group policies and Group insurance policies.
• To ensure that the company’s employees at all levels are aware of the Group’s policies, instructions and guidelines in financial, legal and IT matters
• Arranging internal controls for business and financial processes
• To inform the Group immediately in the event of any piece of information indicating a potential or an actual injury to the Company (i.e. the “alarm” system)
• Awareness of ISO 14001 and 45001 standards

Experience: 

• Qualified Chartered Accountant with 6-8 years experience in financial management tasks and good knowledge of IFRS / SOX and local taxation
• Experience in SAP Hana S4 / One stream will be an added advantage

Expected competencies and skills: 

• Strategic thinking & business acumen

• Strong analytical rigor and attention to detail
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration
• Results-driven and proactive
• High integrity and ethical judgment
• Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly to non-finance stakeholders

Location: Philippines

What we offer you:

In return, we can offer you exciting and challenging Financial Controller position and flexible working environment to form a part of the Konecranes (PH) Inc, you will create value added support locally and in delivering services as per our Lifting People Strategy.

Konecranes moves what matters. We are a global leader in material handling solutions, serving a broad range of customers across multiple industries. We consistently set the industry benchmark, from everyday improvements to the breakthroughs at moments that matter most, because we know we can always find a safer, more productive and sustainable way. That's why, with 16 000+ professionals in over 50 countries, we are trusted every day to lift, handle and move what the world needs.

Konecranes is committed to ensuring that all employees and job applicants are treated fairly in an environment which is free from any form of discrimination.