Factory Controller

Responsibilities

• Through their team, identify, drive and deliver cost improvement opportunities, be an active contributor to improvement projects and initiatives, validate, review and track proposed savings.
• Challenge assumptions for cost improvements in factory based on internal and external benchmark information on factory performance and costs.
• Actively drive NCE activities within the factory and ensure activities are in alignment with business OMP.
• Manage and interpret factory reporting of actuals and forecasts for the factory and key outside stakeholders; ensure transparency, accuracy and timeliness of this process; follow up and monitoring of progress to close gaps, ensuring Nestle financial policies, Accounting Standards and Costing Standards are followed by promoting ownership of data at source.
• Identify and lead strategic financial analysis relating to major or strategic decisions related to the factory to ensure full transparency of costs and non-financial implications.
• Drive business planning. Manage the overall factory budget with factory management team as well as being the critical liaison between factory and Head Office in the business planning process. Perform forecasts, revisions to simulations if needed.
• Develop, control and ensure robust evaluations of capital investment plans and requests including post CAPEX evaluations.
• Coach and develop the factory personnel with focus on finance individuals & team including career and succession planning. Ensure factory finance personnel are meeting/exceeding performance expectations.
• Drive clear understanding of financial key figures, costing and business impact within and outside the factory, including organizing training sessions for non specialists.
• Manage routine audit activities within the factory to ensure compliance on critical areas eg) NAS, Costing Standards, statuary accounting/tax, OPEX guideline and appropriately escalate business risks. As the Champion of compliance & risk management for the site is the key contact for internal and external audits within the factory. Ensure clear control and visibility of assets and liabilities, including the development, implementation and compliance with internal controls in all areas. Accountable for Segregation of Duties (SODs) and assessment of compensating control effectiveness. Includes establishing a solid and periodic monitoring of the internal controls effectiveness and appropriately escalating business risks.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years experience in financial operations, with a solid accounting background.
• Experience within a network organization (internal and external providers).
• Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry experience.
• University Degree (BA/BS) in Business, Finance or Accounting or equivalent experience.
• Skilled in managing diverse P&Ls.
• Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical problem solving skills.
• Superior execution skills in a changing environment and ability to multi-task.
• Good with numbers and data, but critically important to be able to deliver the message to non-finance professionals.
• Proven ability to not only deliver, but drive excellent work in a team and matrix organization.
• Proven analytical thinking and seeing the big picture.
• Proven ability to quickly learn and drive new concepts and processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Good knowledge of the business environment/competition/capability to benchmark.
• Good working knowledge of product portfolio and brand profitability.
• Proven knowledge of financial concepts including cost accounting, activity based costing, cash flow, NPV, IRR, ROI, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.