Efficiency Manual: Department Coordination Is The Key.

Sometimes, the so-called efficiency refers to the implementation rate of strategy and plan. BOSCH's corporate culture and employee training clearly have a good understanding of "implementation". Zhang Rui thought, "if we find out the problems and need to do a lot of detailed and practical production lines, we will ultimately rely on" teamwork "to implement the cost optimization strategy.

Every department in BOSCH has a "coordinator". His job is to coordinate the cost optimization. Zhang Rui, for example, said, "for example, we need the production tools department to complete a job, then I will find the coordinator of this department, through him to implement our ideas, specifically need the other departments which staff to cooperate with is also arranged by the department coordinator. This kind of continuous optimization aimed at cost optimization. Internal adjustment It is a system that every BOSCH employee must know and cooperate with. It can be said that to some extent, it has become a part of corporate culture.

For a financial professional, we should have a good understanding of products and technologies, and have strong ability in coordination and coordination. Zhang Rui explained that the training of these abilities and qualities benefited from the business analysis work done before Lenovo. "That is basically a job of" offending people ", which was trained at that time.

Zhang Rui worked in the financial analysis of Lenovo for four years before joining BOSCH group as a cost optimization manager. Zhang Rui said that the two companies are very different, not only in the middle of cultural differences, but also the product of different, different industries. Lenovo is a PC manufacturer, a market oriented company, and more focused on how to sell products. In the cost structure of products, the cost of raw materials is the overwhelming majority. Lenovo's production line is mainly composed of assembly parts, that is, as long as the purchase price of raw materials such as chips and CPU has been reduced, the price of products has also decreased. Therefore, the emphasis of Lenovo's cost optimization is on the optimization of the supply chain. At that time, we paid more attention to front-end sales, marketing, promotion and so on. Of course, these are not only cost optimization, but many design data and market analysis require financial professionals not only to have professional financial knowledge, but also rich. Product knowledge 。 When doing data analysis, it is not limited to traditional historical data analysis. Instead, it needs to push forward as much as possible, and do forecast and budget management.

By contrast, BOSCH is a technology oriented company. Many technologies are leading in the industry, and R & D is also leading. The cost of each production line is relatively high, so the focus of my work will be on the product process, product design, R & D and other aspects of the back-end, focusing on the financial cost optimization of back-end production.

Lenovo's financial analysis has made Zhang Rui "offend people." It can be said that Lenovo's financial analysis work has accumulated a lot of work experience for me, because this is a post which is different from the traditional financial management. For example, a former employee's business reimbursement list has been reported to the finance department. If the details are clear, the invoice is complete, the leaders' signature at all levels is confirmed, the financial personnel will confirm that it is correct. But for financial analysts, we also need to analyze the reasonableness of the trip, and if it is unreasonable, we must make a decision. Technological process Constraints, that is to say, is the most offending job of the company.

However, such work experience has also accumulated a lot of experience in the Department communication of BOSCH group when it engaged in cost optimization management. Zhang Ruitan Cheng, currently engaged in cost optimization work needs to communicate with various departments, these experiences have played a great role.

Modern financial management has been subdivided accurately, whether it is budget management or business analysis or cost optimization management, which requires financial personnel to become a "versatile person". They have a precise grasp of their business or products. In Zhang Rui's words, "when we really need to implement a job, we must have professional attitude like business people to communicate with them in order to be truly effective."