Local Division Controller - Motion Traction

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This position reports to:

Global Business Controller

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At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

As part of our strategic growth agenda, we are hiring a new Local Division Controller Switzerland for our ABB Motion Traction Division.

In this role, you will lead the finance and controlling agenda for a USD 400 million business. As a key leadership and business partner to the Local Division Manager and Management Team, you will also contribute to the global Division Controlling organization. You will own the local division’s financial performance, lead the controlling team, and strengthen transparency, operational excellence, and continuous improvement to support sustainable, profitable growth.

This role is based in Switzerland, and the work model is hybrid #LIhybrid.  

This role reports to our Global Division Controller, Motion Traction.

Key Responsibilities 

• Act as a trusted business partner to the Local Division Manager and Management Team, contributing to strategy definition, execution, and sustainable profitable growth. 

• Own and lead forecasting, budgeting, and financial planning for the Swiss Local Division in line with ABB standards and guidelines.

• Ensure transparent, accurate, and reliable financial reporting for a business of approximately USD 400 million, providing proactive insights and scenario analysis to support operational and strategic decision-making.

• Monitor and optimize key financial and operational metrics, including orders, revenues, costs, margins, inventory, cash flow, productivity, capital efficiency, and working capital performance across all 4 Traction Business Lines locally.

• Drive robust projects as well as tender review process, investment evaluation, and business case process to support profitable growth and sound decision-making. 

• Ensure compliance with ABB internal controls and US GAAP requirements, while fostering strong collaboration across local divisions and stakeholders.

• Drive continuous improvement, digitalization, standardization, and change initiatives across controlling processes, reporting, analytics, and business transformation activities.

• Lead, develop, and support the local controlling organization, while contributing actively to the Global Division Controlling organization through best-practice sharing and global initiatives.

Qualifications  

• University degree in Finance, Controlling, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, with strong knowledge of costing, revenue recognition, provisions, risk management, and internal controls.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in business controlling or a related finance function, ideally in a sizeable and complex organization, with a strong understanding of end-to-end financial processes.

• Proven people's leadership experience, with the ability to lead, develop, and empower a controlling team and to influence business partners in a matrix organization. 

• Experience with ERP systems (SAP preferred), reporting tools, and business analytics platforms such as Power BI.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to translate complex financial data into actionable business insights and recommendations. 

• Proactive, results-oriented, and continuous improvement mindset, with the confidence to challenge the status quo and drive change.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the maturity to partner effectively with senior business leaders and cross-functional teams.

• Excellent planning, organizational, and prioritization skills, with the ability to perform effectively under pressure and manage multiple priorities. 

• Fluent English and German, with excellent communication and presentation skills across different organizational levels and multicultural environments.

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ABB Motion, a global leader in motors and drives, is at the core of accelerating a more productive and sustainable future. We innovate and push the boundaries of technology to contribute to energy efficient, decarbonizing and circular solutions for customers, industries and societies. With our digitally enabled drives, motors and services we support our customers and partners to achieve better performance, safety and reliability. To help the world’s industries outrun – leaner and cleaner, we deliver motor-driven solutions for a wide range of applications in all industrial segments. Building on over 140 years of domain expertise in electric powertrains, our more than 22,000 employees across 100 countries learn and improve every day. go.abb/motion 

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