Finance - Finance Analyst Sales Control - Hsinchu

Introduction to the job

The business insight & control is responsible for working directly with ASML Taiwan’s Account Teams to support all financial and contractual aspects of ASML’s commercial operations in Taiwan.    

Role and responsibilities

• Be the finance analyst to support overall revenue/cost, forecast, monthly reporting including credit usage, AR, cash planning.
• Working with finance leader and Sales account team in commercial deals proposal, ensuring risks and rewards for ASML and customer are clear and mutually beneficial.
• Interface and align between sales account team, Central finance, Legal, Tax, Auditing to ensure compliance and commercial deal execution smoothly.
• Support the deal execution by reporting compelling business insights, aimed at driving actions as opposed to informing us about the past. This can be broken down into 3 main activities: (i) Support target / objectives setting. Ensure the selection of relevant and smart objectives that support ASML long term value creation. (ii) Set up and consolidation of management information relevant to the organization’s progress against these objectives. (iii) Support corrective actions and intervention by managers to continuously improve future performance.
• Recommend and implement creative out of the box options and alternatives for improving the financial and contractual terms of sales proposals, as well as dealing with issue resolution that emerge while executing deals.
• Key financial objectives include ensuring we reach our guided revenues, margins and cash flows.

Education and experience

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelors or Masters degree with a concentration in Accounting/Finance, Business Administration, Professional Finance certification encouraged.

Skills

• Enjoys working with teams to make better decisions and holding them accountable for execution
• Offers people workable & creative alternatives instead of just saying no
• Able and willing to speak up and team player

Other information

Ideally this individual has corporate experience in a fast growth company with emphasis on research and development, new products, and innovation.  This individual should also have a successful track record in developing and overseeing strong financial controls, planning, and analysis. Key competencies required include:

• Good Communications Skills – The individual must be an good communicator with the members of stakeholders. This individual must have strong presentation skills (orally and written), but at the same time should be able to think on his/her feet, answer questions with the appropriate level of detail and understanding, and demonstrate a knowledge and grasp of the business to engender respect and trust. ASML is a company where ‘speaking up’, and dealing with direct feedback is critical to succeed.
• Leadership Abilities –This involves active management of the business in real time, not just reporting the performance after the fact. They will question plans and results, pushing for improvements and enhancements, and challenging the management He/she will be a driving force within the organization for rigor, change, and continuing improvements. 
• Impeccable Values and Ethics – The ideal candidate will embody the strong corporate values of diversity, equal opportunity, attention to individuals and people, and commitment to local communities.  Respect for individuals and proper treatment of all people are hallmarks of this company.  The individual will be committed to developing, training, and promoting individuals to more senior and broader responsibilities.  He/she will have a clear demonstrated track record of motivating, and retaining a financial team with outstanding financial skills and operating perspective.
• Team Building Skills – The candidate will have demonstrated the ability to build strong and open working relationships characterized by mutual respect between managers, peers and subordinates within the organization.  He/she will is skilled in influencing people without power or hierarchical relationships. The individual in this role will be a team player who has demonstrated the ability to assess, attract, develop, coach and mentor strong talent. 
• Industry Expertise – Knowledge of the Semiconductor industry is not a requirement. A fit with ASML corporate culture (speak up, also to senior management), and meeting the creativity and problem solving requirements are much more important than any knowledge of the Semiconductor industry. A curiosity to learn to understand the industry is essential. 

Inclusion and diversity

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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