Controlling & Planning Specialist

The Opportunity:

Join us as a Finance Business Partner & Controller, you will play a key role in driving financial performance, transparency, and informed business decision-making across corporate functions. In this role, you will partner closely with business leaders to provide financial insights, challenge cost development, optimize resource allocation, and ensure strong financial governance within a dynamic multinational environment.The

How you will make a impact:

• Partner with business and functional leaders to provide financial analysis, insights, and actionable recommendations that support strategic decision-making.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning activities for corporate functions, ensuring accuracy and forecast reliability.
• Monitor functional costs, analyze trends and variances, and identify opportunities for productivity improvement and cost optimization.
• Deliver transparent management reporting, KPI tracking, and performance analysis to support business objectives.
• Manage month-end closing activities, including accruals, provisions, cost allocations, and intercompany recharge processes.
• Ensure corporate and functional costs are accurately assigned across cost centers, profit centers, legal entities, and reporting structures.
• Oversee capital expenditure tracking, real estate budgeting, management fees, and intercompany reconciliations.
• Strengthen financial governance by maintaining compliance with IFRS, local accounting regulations, internal controls, and audit requirements.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, regulations, and Hitachi Energy’s values of safety and integrity.

Your background:

• You hold a bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Controlling, Accounting, or a similar finance role, preferably within a multinational matrix organization.
• Solid knowledge of IFRS, Vietnamese Accounting Standards, financial controls, account reconciliations, and audit processes.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and hands-on experience with SAP FICO or equivalent financial systems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful business insights.
• Fluent in both English and Vietnamese, with a proactive, analytical mindset and strong problem-solving capabilities.

More about us:

At Hitachi Energy Vietnam, we offer a suite of employee benefits to complement our pay offering, supporting employees’ financial, physical and mental wellbeing:

• 16 days annual leave, flexible working policy.
• Benefit according to local standards: Heath-care insurance benefits to employees and their family dependents (spouse & children), annual vaccination, summer outing.
• Growth possibility: Learning and development platform, career movement opportunity within organization.
• Possibility to gain experience in international environment and work with an industry leader in green energy solutions.