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Position: Finance Controller (OneStream Expert)
Department: OneStream Team/ Group Control
Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the Damen Shipyards Group organization
Damen Shipyards Group is a leading international shipbuilder with more than 35 shipyards, repair yards, and related companies worldwide. Innovation, digitalization, and continuous improvement are at the core of everything we do.
The OneStream Team operates within Group Control and is responsible for the continuous development, optimization, and governance of the global OneStream platform. The platform plays a critical role in financial consolidation, planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management across the Damen organization.
As Damen continues its finance transformation journey, the OneStream environment is becoming an increasingly important enabler of standardized processes, high-quality data, and efficient decision-making.
Your Role
As a Finance Controller with deep OneStream expertise, you will be responsible for driving financial planning, forecasting, consolidation, reporting, governance, and performance management across the organization. You will act as a trusted business partner to Finance leadership and play a key role in supporting Damen's finance transformation journey. This role combines strong financial controlling capabilities with advanced OneStream knowledge to improve decision-making, reporting quality, data governance, and operational efficiency across the group. The role requires a professional who can engage confidently with senior stakeholders, challenge existing processes, identify improvement opportunities, and translate business requirements into scalable financial solutions. The position serves as the bridge between Finance, Business, IT, and external partners, ensuring that financial processes and systems support the strategic objectives of the organization. Based on the current OneStream Consultant role responsibilities and focus on finance transformation, stakeholder management, governance, reporting, forecasting, and consolidation.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Controlling & Business Partnering
- Own and support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes
- Ensure accurate and timely management reporting and performance analysis
- Partner with business leaders to provide financial insights and support decision-making
- Challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and provide recommendations to leadership
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities
OneStream Platform Ownership
- Act as the subject matter expert for OneStream across the organization
- Drive continuous improvement of consolidation, planning, forecasting, and reporting processes
- Translate business requirements into effective OneStream solutions
- Lead enhancements, automation initiatives, and process optimization projects
- Ensure the platform continues to meet evolving business needs
Stakeholder Management & Finance Transformation
- Act as the primary liaison between Finance, IT, Data & Analytics, and external partners
- Lead workshops and requirement-gathering sessions with business stakeholders
- Manage stakeholder expectations and drive adoption of new processes and solutions
- Support finance transformation initiatives and standardization efforts across the group
- Advise management on best practices, governance, and future roadmap opportunities
Governance, Controls & Compliance
- Maintain strong financial controls and governance standards
- Support audits and compliance requirements related to financial systems and reporting
- Ensure data quality, reporting accuracy, and consistency across the organization
- Review financial processes and recommend improvements to strengthen controls
Coaching & Knowledge Sharing
- Support and mentor finance users and OneStream Operations Specialists
- Develop documentation, training materials, and best-practice guidance
- Promote continuous learning and adoption of financial reporting standards and tools
What We’re Looking For
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or related field
- 8+ years of experience in Finance Controlling, FP&A, Financial Reporting, or Finance Transformation
- Strong experience with financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and consolidation
- Minimum 4 years of hands-on OneStream experience
- Experience working in multinational and multi-stakeholder environments
Knowledge & Skills
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Financial Consolidation & Group Reporting
- Budgeting & Forecasting
- Management Reporting & Performance Management
- OneStream Administration & Configuration
- Financial Governance & Internal Controls
- ERP & Finance Systems Integration
- Stakeholder Management & Business Partnering
- Process Improvement & Finance Transformation
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Personal Competencies
- Strong business acumen and commercial mindset
- Confident influencing senior stakeholders
- Consultative and solution-oriented approach
- Proactive, hands-on, and results-driven
- Able to translate complex financial topics into clear business recommendations
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken)
Why Join Damen?
At Damen, you will work at the intersection of Finance and Technology, contributing to the operational excellence of a global finance platform. You will collaborate with experienced OneStream and finance professionals, gain exposure to international processes and stakeholders, and benefit from a strong focus on both personal and professional development.
Ideal Candidate Profile
We are looking for a Finance Controller who happens to be an expert in OneStream, not a OneStream specialist who happens to understand finance.
The ideal candidate can:
- Partner with CFOs, Finance Directors, Controllers, and business leaders
- Drive planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management processes
- Lead finance transformation and process improvement initiatives
- Manage stakeholders across Finance, IT, and Operations
- Use OneStream as a strategic business tool to improve decision-making, governance, and reporting quality
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in Finance Controlling, FP&A, Financial Reporting, or Finance Transformation
- Strong experience with financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and consolidation
- Minimum 4 years of hands-on OneStream experience
- Experience working in multinational and multi-stakeholder environments
- Knowledge of financial planning and analysis, financial consolidation, group reporting, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and performance management
- Experience with OneStream administration and configuration
- Knowledge of financial governance, internal controls, and ERP and finance systems integration
- Stakeholder management, business partnering, process improvement, and finance transformation experience
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Professional proficiency in English, written and spoken
Damen Shipyards Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Damen Shipyards Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Damen Shipyards Group.
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Retirement Support — Pension plans and strong secondary employment conditions in parts of Western Europe are often highlighted as providing a secure overall package. Feedback suggests these elements bolster total rewards even where base pay perceptions are mixed.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace safety, welfare initiatives, and employee assistance via Foundation Damen Support are emphasized, with Vietnam materials noting stable income and clear welfare benefits. These practices indicate tangible support for day-to-day wellbeing.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — In the Netherlands and Germany, base salaries are described as aligning with sector collective labor agreements, and many roles are seen as locally competitive. This structure points to clear pay frameworks in those regions.
Damen Shipyards Group Insights
What We Do
Damen is an international family-owned shipyard group that provides maritime solutions through design, shipbuilding, ship repair, and related services.
