Financial Analyst jobs at Applied Materials in Netherlands

What You’ll Do

This role is located at our European Finance Headquarters in Hoofddorp, Netherlands and is a permanent full-time position.

Role Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the “in quarter” or actual activities for our spares and service divisions, which also includes becoming a business partner for Field Service Organization (FSO), and Sales in managing the overall P&L performance for Service and Spares business
• Ensures the accurate and timely recording of revenue-related transactions in accordance with the Company’s revenue recognition policy.
• Analyses and tracks revenue and cost streams against budget, prepares reports and trend analysis on a periodic basis and provides narrative and follow up actions to key stakeholders
• Tracks labour hour trends to analyse utilization of workforce
• Tracks spares consumption against forecast, and provide analysis accordingly
• Analyses movements in gross margin of customer service contracts and provides explanation of variances to budget and proposes corrective actions if and when needed
• Performs the monthly close tasks, including revenue accruals, deferred revenue management, spending reviews, margin reviews, account reconciliations and other duties as necessary
• Owns SOX controls in the areas of revenue and cost
• Supports internal and external audits and the preparation of the quarterly balance sheet review package
• Identifies process improvement opportunities to drive time and cost efficiencies
• Support Projects

• What You’ll need:

• Strong financial technical expertise,
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong customer service focus
• Ability to interact with multiple levels of the organization ranging from line level to senior management
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbally and in writing)
• Strong time management, organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent computer skills: SAP and Microsoft suites (Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint), and knowledge in Tableau is a plus
• Advanced Knowledge of the English language
• Global perspective

• Education and Experience:

• Bachelor or Master in Finance, Business Controlling or Accounting
• 3+ years of experience in a Financial analysis/Business Controlling position

Responsibilities:

• Business partner of the European Corporate Functions Managers and the AAI/CTO group
• Responsible for the spending forecast and actual spending tracking
• Responsible to consolidate spending for EMEA and submits reporting packages including variance analysis and bridges to US Headquarters
• EMEA spending process owner, identifies process improvement opportunities to drive time and cost efficiencies
• Responsible for all spending related product deliveries to EMEA internal customers with support of our Business Process Outsourced partner (e.g. HC reporting)
• Performs the monthly close tasks, including detailed spending reviews and accruals
• Point of contact and responsible for EMEA cost center master data management
• Identifies process improvement opportunities to drive time and cost efficiencies
• Support Projects and ad hoc requests

Key Expectations:

• Self-starter with strong work ethic and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment with fluctuating priorities and deadlines; maintain financial cycle deliverables, identify change, and drive items to closure with minimal management oversight
• Able to work in ambiguous environment but still drive results, solve complex problems, exercises judgement based on the analysis of multiple sources of information
• Be curious to understand the drivers of top and bottom-line growth
• Excellent communication and writing skills and the ability to translate and simplify complex financial information and explain it to non-finance audience
• Strong time management, organizational skills and attention to detail
• Excellent computer skills: SAP, Excel, Tableau, PowerBI, PowerPoint)
• Advanced Knowledge of the English language
• Global perspective

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor or Master in Finance, Business Controlling or Accounting
• 5+ years of experience in a Financial analysis/Business Controlling position