Plant Controller

at  Brookwood Recruitment

Do you want to be part of a fast growing global automotive manufacturing organisation?
They are now looking for a Plant Controller reporting directly to the Plant Manager.

Responsibilities -

• Manage the controlling of a plant to guarantee and optimize the plant’s financial performance and competitiveness
• Ensure compliance to all financial procedures:
• Develop, execute and control internal finance procedures including spending authorization in accordance with Group procedures and policies
• Ensure site activities are compliant with finance related procedures (product flow, inventory, routings, …), and internal control basics
• Provide reliable financial/controlling information in close relationship with other operational and support functions
• Lead all financial forecasting processes (budget, periodic forecast, …)
• Manage reporting process ensuring reliability, consistency, transparency and delay compliance
• Ensure reliability of standard costing
• Provide all necessary controlling analysis including variance analysis/standard costs, margin/programs, plant budgetary control , squeeze management and follow up of sales and purchasing prices,…
• Control and manage the plant’s operating cash flow (capex, inventories, overdues)
• In liaison with Accounting Service provide all necessary information requested by internal and external auditors, and others local external authorities
• PR approval and verification of cost closed order unit price
• For new programs:
• Participate in Business Plan validation, and ensure consistency with plant financial information
• Monitor the program start up and establish variances versus last reference business plan
• Participate in the program post-audit, be the finance lead person in the tracking of convergence plan related to plant activities
• Act as a business partner toward the plant management, and provide recommendation to the management:
• Participate, with the management of the plant, in the development of action plans resulting from relevant analysis to achieve the operational targets, increase plant’s financial profitability and cash optimization (especially identification and implementation of productivity plans)
• Follow financial impact and progress of action plans
• Ensure financial awareness of plant operational teams
• Ensure full respect of HSE rules and regulations
• Team work:
• Ensure transparent timely communication
• Participate with supervisory colleagues to improvement of department performance
• Close communication with other departments

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Familiarity with industrial Information Systems and Flows
• Good accounting knowledge
• Business minded and strong teamwork
• Good communication skills
• Fluent in English
• Experience in an automotive manufacturing plant

• Manage the controlling of a plant to guarantee and optimize the plant’s financial performance and competitiveness
• Ensure compliance to all financial procedures:
• Develop, execute and control internal finance procedures including spending authorization in accordance with Group procedures and policies
• Ensure site activities are compliant with finance related procedures (product flow, inventory, routings, …), and internal control basics
• Provide reliable financial/controlling information in close relationship with other operational and support functions
• Lead all financial forecasting processes (budget, periodic forecast, …)
• Manage reporting process ensuring reliability, consistency, transparency and delay compliance
• Ensure reliability of standard costing
• Provide all necessary controlling analysis including variance analysis/standard costs, margin/programs, plant budgetary control , squeeze management and follow up of sales and purchasing prices,…
• Control and manage the plant’s operating cash flow (capex, inventories, overdues)
• In liaison with Accounting Service provide all necessary information requested by internal and external auditors, and others local external authorities
• PR approval and verification of cost closed order unit price
• For new programs:
• Participate in Business Plan validation, and ensure consistency with plant financial information
• Monitor the program start up and establish variances versus last reference business plan
• Participate in the program post-audit, be the finance lead person in the tracking of convergence plan related to plant activities
• Act as a business partner toward the plant management, and provide recommendation to the management:
• Participate, with the management of the plant, in the development of action plans resulting from relevant analysis to achieve the operational targets, increase plant’s financial profitability and cash optimization (especially identification and implementation of productivity plans)
• Follow financial impact and progress of action plans
• Ensure financial awareness of plant operational teams
• Ensure full respect of HSE rules and regulations
• Team work:
• Ensure transparent timely communication
• Participate with supervisory colleagues to improvement of department performance
• Close communication with other department