Assistant Business Controller...

Founded in 1910, KONE is a global leader that provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization that add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Our mission is to improve the flow of urban life and make our world’s cities better places to live by providing innovative solutions that help make people’s journeys safe, convenient and reliable. Our operations in over 60 countries around the world has helped us achieve our position as an innovation and sustainability leader with repeated recognitions by Forbes, Corporate Knights for clean capitalism and others.

Are you ready to make your next career move to join our team as our Assistant Business Controller based in Mexico City?

• Do you have 2–3 years of experience in financial analysis or a related finance role?
• Are you proficient in Excel (macros) and comfortable working with large datasets?
• Are you fluent in English and confident interacting with managers and stakeholders?
• Can you analyze financial performance and explain trends, variances, and key findings—not just numbers?
• Do you enjoy supporting planning and forecasting cycles, helping ensure realistic and timely financial projections?
• Are you able to interpret complex financial data and transform it into actionable insights for the business?
• Do you thrive in a collaborative environment and have strong communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills?
• Are you interested in contributing to the improvement of processes, methods, and tools in financial reporting?
• Do you want to be part of a team that ensures financial understanding across the business and drives performance transparency?

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If you answered a resounding YES, then we have an amazing opportunity for you!

As our Assistant Business Controller, you will play a vital role in strengthening the financial insights and planning capabilities of the organization. Positioned within the Business Controlling team, you’ll help drive financial transparency, ensure data accuracy, and promote finance understanding across functions.

In this role, you will support the end-to-end financial planning and forecasting cycle, providing key inputs such as inflation rates, FX assumptions, salary adjustments, and cost projections. You’ll validate these figures with business partners to ensure they reflect realistic market conditions.

You will be responsible for analyzing the business’s weekly and monthly performance, identifying key trends and deviations from forecasts and budgets, and transforming this data into clear, actionable insights that inform decision-making—not just numbers. This includes overseeing the accuracy of operational and financial reporting, such as sales volumes (OR), RE50 / R80 financial statements, KPIs (like P2P or hours per floor), and contract profitability.

You’ll also collaborate with the Business Controller to consolidate and deliver timely plans and forecasts, ensuring compliance with internal deadlines. Additionally, you will assist in monitoring industry, economic, and market trends, contributing to short-, medium-, and long-term outlooks that guide business strategy.

As a finance partner to the business, you will help build financial acumen across the organization, empowering stakeholders with the knowledge and tools they need to make informed decisions.

You will also contribute to ensuring financial operations comply with the KONE Financial Control Model (FCM), accounting standards, and internal guidelines. By maintaining compliance and consistency in financial reporting, you help safeguard the integrity and reliability of our business insights.

We have the courage to hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because we believe diversity drives innovation :

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Come share your passion and energy to make a positive impact at KONE for our customers and your career!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.