We are a pioneering leader with a powerful legacy: Over 120 years of creating specialty chemicals and solutions that potentiate the performance of our customers and their products. Our solutions, expertise, and support help them to perform better - to be more efficient, effective, and sustainable. We are passionate about empowering high performance and enabling our employees, partners, and customers to realize their full potential. Together we make daily life safer, cleaner, healthier, and greener. If you like making a difference,we are the company for you! We are looking to hire a Global R&T Controller in our Corporate FP&A Team. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Act as financial business partner to Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer and the R&T leadership team (including Regulatory). Build and establish the new R&T controlling function; ensure harmonization bysetting up global standards, policies, and a governance framework. Establish measurable targets on R&T efficiency and effectiveness. Drive appropriate cost structure, productivity optimization, and capital efficiency. Drive cost & performance management reporting, variance analysis, and provide high-quality data, transparency, and insights to senior management proposing measures to improve and achieve our goals. Lead R&T budgeting/forecasting activities including modeling. Provide business case and decision support on innovation pipeline management. Drive productivity initiatives, synergies & benefit tracking and ensure the R&T function operates at a high level of excellence. Compare and evaluate previous forecasts and perform variance analysis to explain differences in performance and make improvements going forward. Drive data harmonization & integration of Troy and EnviroTech. Collaborate with BU finance and other business functions to provide analysis and decision support for R&T related activities. Support other functional controlling and SG&A reporting activities and other related tasks as assigned. KEY REQUIREMENTS: Controlling/FP&A in a multinational, preferred chemical industry. Must have R&T controlling experience, ideally also regulatory exposure. Strong, clear, and concise written and oral communication towards senior management. Strong business partnering skills with the ability to build relationships. Strong capabilities to analyze financial data, interpret and understand R&T drivers while describing/visualizing them towards senior management to support strategic decisions and action plans. Significant analytical skillset, including the utilization of BI, OneStream, and other reporting tools; strong modeling and dashboarding skills as well as project management skills. Cross-functional agility. We are a place to go, stay, and grow. #J-18808-Ljbffr