Financial Controller

Client: EUROPERFIL, SA

Location: Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona)

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 3648119593152544768324627

Job Views: 2

Posted: 11.03.2025

Expiry Date: 25.04.2025

Job Description:

Created in 1987, Europerfil manufactures profiles, sandwich panels, and innovative constructive solutions for metal cladding for all kinds of buildings. As a specialist in metal cladding, Europerfil develops and manufactures a wide range of products that form the skin of buildings. This range includes constructive profiles for roofs, facades, composite floors, architectural facade profiles; polyurethane and poliisocianate sandwich panels for roofs and facades, refrigeration and acoustic panels, and facade architectural panels; in addition to a wide range of accessories, colour range, and coatings which adjunt to each project, each atmosphere, and all surroundings.

Europerfil is present in all sectors of activity, innovating to offer a wide range of products, accessories, and constructive solutions for non-residential (industrial buildings, schools, social and cultural centres, refrigeration facilities, health centres, and buildings for transport and service stations), and residential buildings.

To strengthen our finance team and build our succession pipeline, we are looking for a Controller who will report directly to the CFO of Europerfil.

What you can expect from us:

The Europerfil team is our reason for being; it is what stamps personality on our services and products because it is the people who each day disseminate and defend our values. Europerfil's positioning is a response to the attitude of a team of people who, from the operator to the manager, from the secretary to the salesperson, from the controller to the factory manager, from the foreman to the technician, seek a reply with a high level of demand to the commitment we have acquired with our customers.

As Controller, you will start your career path in our team and can develop yourself in the succession pipeline for the group finance team or inside the company. We support you in your development with a strong development process, personal development action plans, and concrete training initiatives.

Key Accountabilities:

• Contribute to financial reporting for Europerfil with a high focus on quality and deadlines according to Group requirements.
• Solid financial monitoring and performance management of sales, invoicing, down payments, and overdues.
• Provide advice and guidance to other teams to make appropriate decisions by analysing, identifying issues, challenging KPIs from an economic point of view, and suggesting and influencing business improvement.
• Internal control: Improve internal control of entity, implementation and follow-up of controls implementation.
• Reporting: Related to costs reporting.
• Sales & margin follow-up / analysis.
• Close collaboration with the shared service functions in the Group with focus on accounting, tax, and credit management in monthly and annual closing processes.
• Contribution for budget, flash, forecast processes with local management. Ensure timely statistic data reporting to government and Intrastat on investments, production, sales, export, and import information.

Skills & Background:

Education requirement:

• University degree (Accounting, Finance, or Applied Economics), Business School.

Experience & knowledge requirements:

• 3 years recognized experience in accounting or controlling positions.
• Good level of leadership capabilities with proven experience in leading roles.
• Capacity to work both with a high level of detail and to take a helicopter view to detect and report key performance factors and recommend action plans.
• Results orientation: Aims to minimize time spent on mandatory tasks (timely and accurately) to deliver the best possible business value (low cost, high value), proactively overcome obstacles and adapt approach to achieve results.
• Good level of teamwork skills.
• Knowledge of BPM and SAP is a strong advantage.

Personal skills requirement:

• Strong analytical skills are required.
• Self-motivated, personable, and a good team player.
• Decision-making, pragmatic and problem-solver attitude.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.

Language requirement:

• Native Spanish skills are mandatory; very good English level is required.