Finance Controlling Manager

As Finance Controlling Manager, you will support the Business Controller/Director of Finance and Administration for Atlas Copco IAS North America in delivering accurate, timely, and compliant reporting while turning financial and operational data into clear business insight. You will be a key counterpart to Shared Service Center and operational stakeholders, provide dependable coverage in agreed areas, and help strengthen processes, controls, data quality, and decision support. This is a hands‑on development role for someone ready to grow toward broader Business Controller responsibility.

• Closing, reporting, and financial stewardship
• Coordinate monthly, quarterly, and year-end closings and management reporting.
• Review accounting activities with Shared Service Center, seek improvements toward real-time reporting, investigate anomalies, and resolve issues.
• Review balance sheet reconciliations and support review meetings and follow-up.
• Monitor working capital, accounts receivable, collections, inventory, fixed assets, and accounting KPIs.
• Prepare financial reports, dashboards, and explain variances.
• Analysis, forecasting, and business partnership
• Lead or support analysis of orders, sales, profit, margins, costs, and KPIs.
• Collaborate with Business Controller, Operations, and leaders to understand results and follow corrective actions.
• Support forecasts, annual planning, budgets, and cost optimization; challenge assumptions with data.
• Identify risks, opportunities, and support business cases and financial studies.
• Translate financial data into concise recommendations and presentations.
• Controls, compliance, and audit
• Ensure compliance with policies and requirements.
• Support control assessments, segregation‑of‑duties reviews, and transaction approvals.
• Coordinate audit documentation and track remediation.
• Report control weaknesses and compliance risks promptly.
• Process excellence, systems, and digitalization
• Partner with ERP, Shared Service Center, Finance, and Operations to improve workflows and data quality.
• Develop reporting tools using SAP, Excel, Power BI, and approved systems.
• Drive automation, standardization, documentation, and master‑data improvements.
• Contribute to finance projects and share knowledge on systems and controls.
• Business continuity and collaboration
• Act as deputy to Business Controller for reporting, analyses, projects, and stakeholder discussions.
• Build effective relationships across Finance, Shared Service Center, Operations, and management with professional judgment.
• Support banking, corporate-card, payment‑control, or finance administrative activities per authority and duties.

Your skills and experience

Required qualifications/skills

• Advanced Excel skills and key user experience with SAP FICO, including a working understanding of FI/CO, profitability analysis, and other related modules.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 4 years of progressive experience in financial analysis, controlling, accounting, audit, FP&A, or finance operations, preferably in a manufacturing or multinational environment.
• Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, month‑end close, reconciliations, and management reporting.
• Ability to identify trends and anomalies, explain variances, prioritize issues, and convert analysis into clear actions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, strong organization and attention to detail, and confidence working across functions and levels.
• Strong work ethic, positive attitude, integrity, ownership, curiosity, and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with standard costing, inventory analysis, consolidated reporting, and multiple legal entities.
• Power BI, reporting automation, data visualization, or finance-process digitalization experience.
• CMA or CPA designation, or active progress toward one.
• Experience partnering with shared-service organizations and supporting internal or external audits.

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every single requirement. We value diverse experiences and perspectives and are excited to see what you bring to the role.

Your job location

This role offers a hybrid working arrangement, allowing you to split your time between working remotely and being on‑site at our Auburn Hills, Michigan office.

Why it is great to work with us

Your career grows through your skills, your curiosity, and the people you work with. You join a global network where we learn from each other and share knowledge openly. We focus on long‑term development and encourage you to explore new ideas that help us move forward. Innovation is part of how we think and act – we test, improve, and use what we learn to create solutions that matter. You can make a meaningful impact by contributing with your insights and taking ownership of your work, supported by flexible ways of working and leaders who empower you.

Behind every innovative solution, there are people working together to transform the future. With careers sparked by initiative and lifelong learning, we are uniting curious minds, and you could be one of them.

Information at a Glance

Atlas Copco delivers innovative products and solutions that help businesses grow and drive progress. Our portfolio spans compressed air and gas systems and treatment, vacuum solutions, industrial power tools, assembly systems, and power and flow solutions. We bring a commitment to long‑term success built on expertise, reliable service, and uptime. When you level up to the Atlas Copco experience you enter a partnership based on quality, sustainability, and ease of collaboration. The technology we bring, and the decades of experience support the future‑proofing of your business. Atlas Copco is a brand within Atlas Copco Group.

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Posting End Date: Legal Entity: Atlas Copco IAS LLC