Siemens Energy

A Snapshot of Your Day

As the Head of Accounting Services for the Americas, you start your day meeting with direct reports to review transition progress, team updates, and efficiency initiatives. You then align with the Head of Accounting on updates for the regional CFO community ahead of next week’s joint presentation. Before lunch, you dive into a major harmonization project with the GL, Closing & Reporting team, and later mentor a top finance talent from the region. In the afternoon, you review KPIs, address key observations, and join a session with the Regional Accounting team to explore improvements in Fixed Assets processes. You wrap up by meeting Accounts Receivable leads across regions to drive strategic tool selection, followed by check-ins with your manager and a peer.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Responsible for the overall operation of the Accounting Service Centre in the region, which includes the following functions: General Ledger, Closing & Reporting, Fixed Assets, Bank and Cash and Accounts Receivable.
• Representing Accounting Services with key stakeholders in the regions.
• Partner with your counterparts in Asia Pacific and Europe to drive global harmonization and standardization.
• Look after and develop passionately an energetic team that is eager to not only deliver operationally but also keen to continuously embrace change on a local and global scale.
• challenge and direct your team through ambiguity.
• Your project driven design thinking helps you to shape the future of streamlined global processes while you can switch between process deep dive and strategy effortlessly.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or in a related field. Minimum 8+ years of experience in leadership of an operational accounting or shared service center.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and eager to drive finance transformation through change management.
• People are oriented and committed to drive personal growth of the team, with a track record of hire and developing talents globally. Passion for process excellence and the project management tool kit to drive such initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with strong passion for organization, process improvement and structure. Flexibility to discuss detailed process steps and high-level strategic initiatives with the same accuracy and effectiveness.
• Experience of working in a truly multicultural working environment. Finance leadership experience, with proven success in leading teams through change management processes.
• You are open and communicative in nature as well as fluent English skills complete your profile. Travel is required as needed. 

About the Team

Accounting Services (AS) is an integral part of the global accounting ecosystem and a CFO function within Siemens Energy (SE). Out of Accounting Service Centers in Americas, Europe, and Asia, AS provides accounting solutions contributing towards SE’s vision to energize society. 

AS is built on (1) people, (2) processes, and (3) technology which are all constantly challenged and developed. Global and diverse networks, domains, and responsibilities offer continuous opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

You will be reporting to the Global Head of Accounting Services, be part of both the local finance community as well as an international network of accounting experts.