Corporate Controller

Bosch Building Technologies North America

About Robert Bosch GmbH

Headquartered in Germany, Robert Bosch GmbH is a premier global supplier with four primary business sectors: Automotive Technology, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. Over 400,000+ associates generate sales of over €90 billion. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.” Ninety-two percent of the share capital of Robert Bosch GmbH is held by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, a charitable foundation. The special ownership structure guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to undertake significant investments in safeguarding its future. In North America, Robert Bosch LLC supplies automotive original equipment and aftermarket products, industrial drive and control technology, power tool, security and building technology, thermo-technology, household appliances, solar energy, healthcare, and software innovations. Bosch established its regional presence in North America in 1906 and now employs 41,000 associates in more than one hundred locations.

Bosch Building Technologies Integrator Business

The regional system integration business called Bosch Building Technologies offers solutions and customized services for building security, energy efficiency, and building automation for commercial buildings and infrastructure projects Bosch started its Integrator Business in North America through the acquisition of Climatec in 2015. Climatec expanded Bosch’s role as a comprehensive supplier of energy, building automation and security solutions. Climatec is recognized in the building industry as an independent single-source integrator of critical building systems including energy services, building automation and security & life safety in the U.S. market. The company provides consulting, planning, implementation and 24/7 remote management. Climatec is active in several market segments and industries including data centers, commercial real estate buildings, and federal, state, and local government. Climatec has operated as an independent entity, maintaining its offices in Arizona, California, Nevada, Texas, New York, and New Jersey. Climatec continues to represent and integrate numerous leading manufactures’ product lines across its wide range of services, including Bosch products. In 2023, Bosch acquired Canadian-based security integrator Paladin Technologies. Merging Paladin Technologies and Climatec will significantly expand Bosch’s Integrator Business in North America. Today the combined entity of Bosch Building Technologies (previously Climatec and Paladin Technologies) represents over $800M in revenues and 2800 associates. Utilizing the strengths of both companies, Bosch offers its customers a complete portfolio of networked and efficient energy, building automation and security solutions.

Job Summary:

The Corporate Controller holds a more centralized, high-level view, overseeing BT North-America's entire organization's financial operations and reporting, overseeing the financial integrity of the entire organization across all Regions and Business Lines, ensuring alignment with Global Strategy and serving as a key advisor to the CFO and Executive Leadership Team, acting as an extension of our corporate stakeholders. Corporate Controllers are crucial in bridging the gap between a company's financial operations and the interests of its various stakeholders. They work and collaborate with Business Partners and Accounting delivering the foundation for effective governance and management. They deploy stakeholder interests by ensuring that the company's financial information is transparent, accurate, and aligned with the company's strategic direction.

Responsibilities:

Financial Deployment: Responsible to develop enterprise-wide financial deployment, budgets, and forecasts. By leading the Budgeting and Current Forecast process, controllers help translate strategic goals into measurable financial targets. This aligns the company's operational activities with the interests of stakeholders, who are focused on growth and profitability.

• Consolidated Financial Reporting: Responsible for leading the consolidation and internal financial reporting operations globally, including monthly, quarterly, and year-end results, ensuring accurate IFRS based consolidated financial statements for internal and external sources.
• Policy and Governance: Establish enterprise-wide financial policies and procedures in accordance to Central Directives and NA Region best practices.
• Strategic Decision and Support: Provide financial insights and internal support for corporate initiatives (e.g., M&A, Post-Merger-Integration, Capital investments).
• Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating major threats to the company's long-term health by consolidating decentralized risk reviews.
• Leadership and Oversight: Corporate Controllers focus on enterprise-wide finance and reporting topics, partnering and driving improvements and working directly with Executive Leadership team, Business Partners and Accounting Delivery.

• Other duties as assigned to support all financial aspects of the company.

Required Qualifications:

Experience: preferred 8 years - min 5 years - of progressive experience in finance or accounting, ideally with multiple years in a leadership role (e.g., HQ Corporate Controller, Business Line Controller, Director of Accounting, Director of FP&A).

• Industry Knowledge: Proven experience in large scale PoC systems integration, construction, or project design-build based business is essential from a controlling standpoint.
• Strategic vision with operational expertise: to align financial strategies and deployment with global business objectives. Strategic thinking to steer strategic planning, manage risks effectively, and foster collaboration with regional teams and internal-external stakeholders (e.g., Executive leadership team, investors, regulators).
• Communication and Presentation Skills: Ability to summarize complex financial analyses and findings clearly and concisely to senior executives and board members.
• Change Management: Proven experience driving enterprise-wide reporting and financial reporting process standardization and technology adoption.
• Strong business acumen: Strong business and financial awareness and the ability to apply these to a portfolio of projects to maximize cash flow, profits, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Problem-Solving: Ability to partner together with Business Partners and Accounting Delivery, capable of resolving complex accounting issues and improving global financial processes.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA certification and/or MBA highly preferred.
• Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency with an ERP system(s), (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics MD365 preferred, SAP, Coins) Power BI, and Microsoft Office including advanced Excel and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

HQ Experience: Experience with headquarter governance, budgets and allocation methodologies, matrixed businesses, multi-entity and multi-currency accounting

Physical Demands: In general, the following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

Must be able to communicate effectively, (i.e., see, hear, speak, and write clearly) in order to communicate with colleagues and/or customers; manual dexterity required for occasional reaching, lifting of light office objects, and operating office equipment.

Working Conditions: In general, the following conditions of the work environment are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

The office is clean, orderly, properly lighted, and ventilated. Noise levels are considered low to moderate.Additional Information:

Compensation: $135,000 - $150,5000 (DOE) Working Hours: This position generally works Monday- Friday, overtime and on call when necessaryTravel Requirements: N/ABenefits: Associates and their eligible family members are offered comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan options as well as company-provided basic life insurance, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability, and access to the employee assistance program. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental life and AD&D insurance, accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance plans, identity theft protection, pet insurance, and HSA and FSA account options. Associates also have the option to enroll in the company’s 401(k) plan. In addition, associates receive PTO (paid time off), state-mandated sick leave, and 9 paid holidays. Benefits are effective on their first day of employment.401(k) employer match of $0.50 for every $1.00 contributed by the associate up to 6% of earnings.

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