Factory Controller

Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow. At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives. Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements.

About the role

As the Factory Controller, you will serve as the trusted financial advisor and strategic partner to the Factory Manager and Factory Leadership Team, while maintaining direct collaboration with the Operations Controller. You will be responsible for providing financial stewardship, governance, and oversight for all aspects of the factory's financial performance. You will lead financial planning, analysis, reporting, and compliance activities, ensuring sound decision-making through accurate, fact-based insights. By monitoring budgets, analyzing variances, and forecasting costs associated with factory operations, you will provide visibility into performance and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and profitability. In this role, you will support both short-term operational objectives and long-term strategic initiatives, helping drive sustainable business results. You will also ensure compliance with financial policies, controls, and legal requirements while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across the facility.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Through your 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 the factory based on internal and external benchmark information on factory performance and costs.
• Actively drive NCE (Nestlé Continuous Excellence) activities within the factory and ensure activities are in alignment with business OMP (Operational Master Plan).
• 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 monitor progress to close gaps, ensuring Nestlé 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 the factory management team as well as being the critical liaison between the 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 a 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 (e.g., NAS, Costing Standards, statutory accounting/tax, OPEX guideline) and appropriately escalate business risks.
• As the Champion of compliance & risk management for the site, act as 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. This includes establishing solid and periodic monitoring of internal controls effectiveness and appropriately escalating business risks.

Requirements

• Education: BA/BS in Business, Finance or Accounting required.
• 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.

Skills

• 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/capacity 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.

Pay

The approximate pay range for this position is $130,000 to $160,000 base salary. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location.

Benefits

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefits packages may vary depending on the position.