Contract - Commercial Controller

Electrify America is committed to revolutionizing the way people charge. As the country's largest open DC fast charging network, Electrify America is actively contributing to electrifying mobility today and building a more sustainable future.

At Electrify America, we value innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to sustainability. We strive to establish a diverse and inclusive workplace where employees can develop personally and professionally. As a team member at this rapidly growing company, you can work on state-of-the-art technology and join a team making a significant impact in the world. If you're interested in joining a dynamic, innovative company, Electrify America is a place where you can learn, grow, and make a difference!

Role Summary:

This position is responsible for assigned Controlling and Finance activities for Electrify America & Canada, including supporting the Accounting, Tax and Treasury functions. This position is responsible for ensuring that all assigned Electrify America & Canada & related costs are properly planned, controlled, accounted for and analyzed, and that corporate policies and procedures are followed.

This position is responsible for the financial control process for Electrify America & Canada in all respective assigned budgets: overhead expenses, marketing expenses, capital investment, workforce, direct costs and revenues. This position leads the Controlling effort for the planning and execution of various strategic controlling initiatives, as well as serve as a backup to the Controllers, and Controlling Managers when unavailable. This position oversees the delivery of Accounting services to ensure the proper recording of accounting transactions, the monthly close process, and the financial reporting requirements to VWAG. Primary ELAM Division focuses will be on Commercial business & L2 Home.

This position consolidates and reports actual results and Forecast to Management for review and accuracy as these reports will be sent to multiple stakeholders within Group of America, VW AG, Electrify America, LLC. & Board of Directors.

Role Responsibilities:

Commercial Revenue & Cost Controlling Activities 25%

• Review and implement improvements to existing revenue management functions, oversee customer invoicing processes
• Develop revenue recognition strategies to maximize company revenue
• Oversee revenue analysis, management, calculations and reporting functions on a monthly basis
• Forecast monthly revenue and identify and communicate revenue opportunities to management
• Responsible for controlling the project costs; including planning, developing, controlling, and forecasting the project's budget
• Support RFP responses by developing cost, margin, and pricing inputs for business development team
• Work closely with accounting team to ensure expenses and revenues are accurate for nearly all Commercial & L2 Home new projects.

Audit Compliance & Accounting Activities 10%

• Manage audit requests delegated to them in their roles primary divisions of focus. Ensure timely delivery of required financial and business policy material and assist with achieving favorable audit outcomes.
• Monitor spend forecast percentage between California and National plans to ensure adherence to planned distribution. Perform decision support analysis to predict impact of potential initiatives on percentage results.
• Manage and execute each month-end close process for Electrify America, LLC. & Electrify Canada related to this role primary ELAM divisions of focus. Interface with Business leaders to ensure accurate reflection of costs by time period- execute required accruals.
• Key Contributor to design and implementation of new SAP S4HANA Accounting module.

Financial Planning & Reporting 25%

• Ensures timely and accurate development and submission of management reporting to all stakeholders.
• Contribute to the development of strategic future 30-month financial cycle spending plans as related to this roles primary ELAM divisions of focus - working closely with the Electrify America Strategy team & Operations team (Site Creation in SAP for All Divisions).

Commercial Activities 20%

• Lead controlling activities for Commercial Business initiatives
• Determine proper accounting treatment of each unique component of the Commercial portfolio
• Participate in Commercial procurement - strong contributor to RFP writing and response evaluation
• Budget Development

L2 Home Activities 20%

• Lead controlling activities for L2 Home Business Marketing initiatives
• Determine proper accounting treatment of each Accounting transaction for the Marketing department as it relates to Month End Journal Entries, forecast, Purchase requisitions and PO's. unique component of the L2 Home portfolio
• Participate in the set-up of Marketing L2 Home procurement - strong contributor to RFP writing and response evaluation
• Budget Development & Forecast Development
• Manage Quarterly reporting

Years of Relevant Experience:

• 5-10 years of relevant experience

Education (Required):

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration or Accounting Degree

Education (Desired):

• Master Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or related discipline
• Accounting Designation (CPA, CMA)

Skills:

• Analytical and conceptual thinking - Ability to gather and analyze qualitative, quantitative feedback and data to assess campaign KPIs and product success in real-time
• Communication skills - Experience in communicating with executive level audiences. Ability to develop and effectively communicate data-driven presentations at multiple levels within the organization
• Integration - joining people, processes or systems
• Influencing and negotiation skills
• Conceptual thinking skills - process-orientation, innovative thinking regarding established methods
• Organization - Highly organized: used to working to tight deadlines and able to work under own initiative
• Demonstrated ability to control costs, perform financial analysis and perform budgeting and forecasting
• Business Case evaluation
• Knowledge of IFRS Accounting Guidelines and financial statements
• Audit Response Experience
• Management Reporting

Specialized Skills (Required):

• Experience with financial & accounting software
• Professional financial analysis experience
• Profit & Loss Forecasting
• Reporting and Analytics
• Ability to interface with all levels of management & provide necessary financial support for business decisions
• Finance experience in controlling, business case generation, analysis & financial optimization
• Advanced MS Excel, PowerPoint & other presentation software
• Excellent communicator and strong presentation skills

Specialized Skills (Desired):

• IFRS Accounting Guidelines
• SAP Financial Software Experience (Gui & Fiore)
• Prior leadership experience or demonstrated capabilities
• Experience with modeling software
• Tableau Experience

Work Flexibility:

• Available for limited travel, may include trips to Germany, Canada, and U.S. field locations

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