Asian Financial Business Challenge

At Philips, we believe technology can be advanced and simple at the same time. Technology that makes sense and is easy to experience. With us, your thinking and ideas can have a positive impact on people all over the globe. At Philips, you’ll touch lives every day.

Specially designed for master graduates, this two-day event will provide you with invaluable insights into how we operate in a range of different business areas all over the world. You’ll get all kinds of ‘real’ business cases, working in small teams and on your own.

You’ll find out what it means to be a controller at Philips, directly involved in operational management. It’s an excellent opportunity to put all your learning firmly into practice, get feedback on your skills and rub shoulders with senior Philips professionals. Based on your performance, we may offer you a job at the end of the course. You’ll need to show us excellent leadership skill and analytical ability, along with strong technical team-working and influencing skills.

What can you expect to be doing in Philips?

Our leading Financial departments have various possibilities which you can fulfill. Some examples:

• Business planning and performance management
• Financial accounting and reporting
• Business and internal controls
• Strategy related improvement & analysis projects
• Financial management
• Participation in cross-functional teams
• Support forecasting process
• Facilitate review meetings

To make it onto this course, you’ll need to combine an excellent academic record with entrepreneurial instinct and analytical ability, as well as strong leadership and interpersonal skills. We’re looking for people who can influence business decisions, who demand top performance of themselves and others, and who are determined to achieve excellent results.

You should be a final-year Masters graduate, with a broad finance interest. Fluent business English is essential, and you must be willing to take on a range of challenges in a variety of locations (throughout the start of your career you will be exposed to challenges in different locations.) 1 to 2 years’ working experience is a plus.

The last event took place in Shanghai China, from 12 to 14 December 2006.
Please take a look at video impressions from the event and watch out this space in Q4 2007 for new enrollements!