Project Manager

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Not only your performance but also your personality matter to us, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, orientation, and background.  At BASF, careers develop from opportunities. 

Do you want to work with passionate teams, providing excellent business and digital services to the Asia Pacific region?

Do you want an open, supportive, and caring working environment?

Do you view your development needs seriously as we do?

If YES, then take your career to the #NextLevel with BASF !

Objectives of the Position

• Our ambition is to be an enabling force behind successful senior projects at GB. With a focus on transparency and accountability, project controlling provide comprehensive insights and analysis that guide our projects towards excellence. This position aims at providing the required regional controlling support. Focus is the whole region Asia-Pacific beyond SSC.

Responsibility

• Tracks key KPIs of projects;
• Tracks project budget and resource planning, including provides forecast and proposes proactively measures to achieve the project budget;
• Is responsible for project related charging activities including necessary communication in the region
• Tracks delivery against efficiency target if any; monitoring the actual project cost and effort development, validate and confirmation for accuracy.
• To develop & establish systems and tools for monitoring & reporting purpose
• Is gatekeeper for project related applications and signs off economic evaluation for the corresponding measures (e.g. Com I for digitalization measures, etc.) if any
• Collaborates with project team, reviews efficiency measure portfolio (progress tracking, risk reviews, identifies topics / areas with underrepresented savings and triggers respective discussions);
• Strong collaboration with global project controlling and on the other hand with the hub and country finance & controlling. Establish seamless coordination between all stakeholders.
• Reviews impact of demand changes on project baseline (e.g. extended service scope, business growth, M&A activity);
• Collaborates with HR workstream on FTE development / bluebook maintenance to ensure alignment with project progress if any
• Is responsible for severance cost and Special Item handling and validates the bookings if any
• Provide regular regional information (e.p. project reports, cost and FTE development) to the global project manager, project management office and project controlling
• Ensures maintenance of correct master data (HR and cost) in case of necessity
• To develop overview of all projects controlling related processes & tasks, systems & tools to offer simple and easy-to-deal-with knowledge management

Requirements

Education

• University graduate – Accounting / Finance / Business / Economics major.
• Additionally, ACCA/CPA or CIA certification or any other equivalent certification

Working Experience

• Minimum 7-10 years’ experience in finance and accounting, internal/external audit roles.
• Prior experience in performing cost accounting, project management, budgeting, investment evaluation and cost charging.
• Experience in managing and strategizing in mid-term to long term plans / projects
• Highly preferably 3-5 years’ experience in BASF group.

Technical & Professional Knowledge

• Strong knowledge and understanding of project accounting and reporting, budgeting and forecasting, cost charging and allocation;
• Strong analytical skills;
• Excellent business communication, strong conflict solving capability, excellent presentation
• Expert knowledge of BW, Excel, SAP R/3, S4 Hana, PBI;
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision, and able to lead and motivate team members.

BASF Asia-Pacific Service Centre was established in 2005. Located in Kuala Lumpur, the regional service hub has approximately 1,100 employees and growing. Focused on being a competency and digitalization driven hub, it also provides quality functional and know-how services in the areas of finance, controlling, human resources, real estate and facilities management, communications, environmental, health and safety, procurement, import-export order management, and information services to BASF companies and affiliates in the Asia Pacific region. BASF also has two other regional hubs located in Berlin, Germany, and Montevideo, Uruguay that cover the Europe and Americas regions.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 111,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €87.3 billion in 2022. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.