Siemens Energy

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Warranty Controller you will partner with SGRE Technical Warranty Counterpart to review/understand/forecast future Warranty campaigns/retrofits/general warranty programs, etc. Plan/Co-ordinate the commercial aspects of warranty special projects and retrofits. Establish Relationship with Warranty commercial counterparts in the US & Denmark to better facilitate claim follow up and warranty processes. As the Warranty Controller-NAM, you will be responsible for supporting all financial activities for projects in execution that are being executed in NAM/US. Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Limited has a flexible work arrangement policy.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• General Financial Analysis: Assist with month-end close process working with SAP, Manage & Prepare Warranty Claims for various projects on a monthly basis, Maintain Warranty Account Reconciliations and follow up on outstanding items.
• Support Warranty Management Team & Operational Management in day-to-day determinations of whether work scope belongs to project versus warranty and what remaining warranty provisions exist on a project for the planning of future work obligations.
• Performance Reporting: Help Develop and Prepare a ‘performance reporting’ package for warranty data to be used by management/CPM Finance team and future benchmarking purposes.  Data/Information to be put into this package would include such items as: Warranty Volume by Site per Turbine (ie, Labour, Consumables, Parts), Parts Volume by Site per Turbine, Retrofit Reporting, Execution of LD Forecasting and Payment Process
• Drive Rollout of New Warranty Reporting Model integrating CPMs into the process to assist in driving ownership and accountability down to the project level
• Forecasting/Balance Sheet Management, use the above information to assist/participate in forecasting of warranty related income statement and balance sheet amounts.  Manage Balance sheet positions as it related to Warranty positions.
• Ensures the accuracy of project books and records by complying with IFRS, internal financial reporting guidelines, and local GAAP requirements.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, finance or in a related field.
• Travel as required, depending on candidate location.
• 3+ years of experience within a finance role or similar. 
• Strong appreciation for ensuring accuracy in all levels of financial reporting.
• Excellent communication, writing, meeting facilitation skills - Must be able to effectively communicate technical financial information to non-financial customers.
• SAP experience, Solid computer skills, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and EXCEL.
• English and/or Spanish at professional working proficiency level. Other languages as German are desirable.