Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment. We serve more than 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day. We simply aim to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation across the world.

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We are an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

Summary of the Job

The WTS Services business is hiring a Finance Analyst to support the North America Services business, which is a fast growing, business unit within the company and North America is its largest region.

Key Characteristics

• Financial Analysis to manage regional P&L

• Understanding of Month End Close process, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Interpersonal Communication & Presentation Skills

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Detailed analysis of business segments, and cost departments, including analyzing the cost structure, determining profitability where applicable, develop KPIs to measure the business, and ensure proper P&L alignment of the cost structure to support long-term strategic business views.

• Own deep dives into processes and systems and propose changes to same where needed.

• Work independently to solve problem statements, with a variety of stakeholders. Key is also to work on business analysis with a finance mindset and collaborate with operational owners to ensure the development of proper KPIs.

• Enjoy forensic accounting at a transactional level, while keeping the big picture in mind, to understand segment profitability in a growth environment, to recommend innovative ways of reporting key numbers and metrics to communicate the areas of success and identify areas of business improvement

• Work with business leaders, sales teams, CoEs, Global FP&A and other finance and cross functional teams to drive the strategic direction of the business, create visibility and understanding of the figures and identify risk and opportunities.

• Detailed analysis of business segments and cost departments to determine profitability of a business segment.

• Develop costs and revenue (price) KPIs that are relevant to measure the strategic goals of a team / Center of Excellence & ensure proper P&L alignment of the cost structure to operational flow of business.

• Support the closing, reporting, budgeting, auditing and any other fiduciary responsibilities

Hard Skills:

• Financial literacy, accounting knowledge, and analytics training

Soft Skills:

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s in Finance, Accounting or equivalent or Finance.

• Minimum of 5 years Finance/Accounting experience

• Proficiency in Office 365 suite of tools, including Advance Excel, Google, PowerPoint, Google Drive & Word

• Fluency in English a must

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree / MBA preferred

• Proficiency ERP systems and reporting systems such as PowerBI and Tableau

Working Conditions

• Less than 10% Travel involved

• In office presence is expected at least four days a week