Commercial Project Manager
About the Role
Location: Spain, Madrid, Tres Cantos (Remote vs. Office Hybrid)
Company: Siemens
Organization: SE CFO Business Unit Grid Technologies
Full / Part time: Full-time
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
A Snapshot of Your Day
As Commercial Project Manager, you will play a key role in providing finance support and coordination to the Grid Technologies Grid Solution organization. This role covers commercial activities such as project creation and management, invoicing, cost control, business analysis, preparation of offers, calculation of prices, and review of contracts.
You will have strong interaction with other commercial project managers, technical project managers, and overall business support functions of different countries, ensuring that commercial and contractual requirements of the projects are met, accounting rules, payment plans, taxation, collections are followed, financial forecasting, and risk management is enabled.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Ensure all related Project Reporting and Controlling activities.
- Support the Commercial Project Manager Head and Project Manager in identifying, evaluating, and assessing risks and opportunities, strategies, and response activities – taking full responsibility in this regard with respect to all commercial risks and opportunities.
- Project Cost and Free Cash Flow Forecasting. Maintain good quality of forecasting accuracy.
- Ensure accurate balance sheet accounting.
- Facilitate prompt invoicing to the customer.
- Actively manage accounts receivables and ensure collections arrive on time.
- Supervise guarantees and ensure they are collected upon expiry for credit limit management.
- Report and present various business-critical metrics as required.
- Ensure the accuracy of project books and records, including recording in the appropriate systems, SAP - ensuring compliance with Siemens-FRG plus local GAAP requirements.
- Drive digitalization.
- Handle other Business Unit specific requests.
What You Bring
- Business Administration/Finance qualification.
- Good knowledge of SAP & MS Office.
- Knowledge of IFRS accounting standards.
- Teamwork and communication skills.
- Proactive & dynamic.
- Strong commercial demeanor.
- Self-starter and assertive.
- Fluent in Spanish and English. Knowledge of German will be considered a plus.
- Digitalization skills.