Head of Finance & Controlling

Ensures compliant handling of legal, regulatory, tax and reporting requirements of the legal entity SIS within the Sika Group; global IT financial management and controlling (definition and continuous improvement of processes, intercompany charging concepts, closings, reporting and analysis of Group IT figures as well as establishment and tracking of relevant KPIs) in alignment with the Group IT and business strategy; definition and operation of the IT Service Portfolio management incl. documentation, budgeting, invoicing and reporting of IT services on a global scale; owner of the IT budgeting process; serves as responsible within SIS as data processor for legal data protection activities; SIS contact for internal and external audits.


People management:
- Management of department personnel (staffing, development, performance appraisals, corrective actions, terminations)
- Ensure adequate training of the staff in alignment with their current responsibilities and future needs
- Enforce Sika’s guiding Policies & Principles in the department

Financial management, budgeting and controlling:
- Overall responsibility for IT budgeting, planning and controlling
- Management and supervision of all financial activities of SIS (closings, asset accounting, budgeting, reporting, liquidity, invoicing, etc.)
- Collection, analysis and reporting of IT TCO globally
- Definition, tracking and reporting of relevant IT KPIs
- Effective cost management
- Support, ad-hoc analyses and consultancy for the SIS Management regarding all financial related matters

- Development, implementation and enhancements of MIS tools and reporting

IT Governance and Compliance:
- Develop and implement financial solutions and align it to other strategic group initiatives
- Responsible for the operation and execution of the Internal Control System for SIS
- Coordination and management of internal and external audits
- Complies and provides necessary information for local tax rules/audits

Service delivery management:
- Create, update, monitor of SLA and SLA cost allocations to Sika companies.
- Management of SL cost centers and service level agreements, budgeting and cost monitoring
- Provide SIS framework for SLA management and supporting local tax audits

Stakeholder Management and collaboration:
- Communicate and collaborate actively with the controller community and the data protection responsible.