Metal/ Plant/ Cost Controlling Sr. Professional

About the role

The Plant Controller will sit in the Tulsa, Oklahoma Precious Metals Chemistry site and report directly to the Business Unit Controller & BIT of PMC with dotted line reporting to the Tulsa Site Director. This position interfaces with global Platinum Group Metals (PGM) and non-PGM teams, Operations, Customer Service, Engineering, Quality, Accounting, Tax, etc. The Plant Controller will monitor, follow up and steer the financial performance of the entities and act as business partner for both plant & BU management in all financial aspects of the running business and ad hoc projects. Plant Contoller will demonstrate strong cost consciousness and actively drive performance dialogues. Beyond finance, this position plays a key role in implementing strategic initiatives together with the plant management team.

Responsibilities

• Executes and/or manages work in a range of Finance topics.
• Responsible for financial planning, analysis, and/or reporting.
• Supports the business as business partner and ensures the financial health of the organization.
• Executes and/or leads work in the controlling of metal inventory, plants or costs.
• Makes improvements of processes or products to enhance performance.
• Influence internal and external parties, who regularly have divergent interests, to achieve short-term project objectives.
• Monitors and analyzes financial performance related to metals, plant or general costs to provides insights for strategic decision-making.
• Ensures compliance with local and Umicore standards (MICRs, credit management, group policies, etc).
• Risk management: Elimination & mitigation of risks to the business.
• Manages Accounting/Costing SAP Masterdata, including validation, price control, standard cost generation.
• Support PMC site management in all financial matters.
• Maintains Capital Employed.
• PGM control of the complete metal processing flows including external refining flows, and ensure timely and accurate booking in SAP. Review of open positions.
• Supports various PMC global tasks, projects.
• Delivers expert work in General Finance with high quality and timeliness, applying best practices and standards.
• Owns complex tasks in cost benefit analysis, budgeting, producing accurate outputs and identifying risks or anomalies proactively.
• Analyzes problems, recommends options, and implements improvements in methods, tools, or data flows.
• Collaborates with adjacent teams and stakeholders, communicating insights and recommendations clearly.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to deliver high-quality outcomes and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration or similar.
• 6 years experience in Controlling required.
• 3+ years experience in plant controlling preferred.
• Individual contributor with advanced knowledge acquired from several years of experience in the professional discipline.

Qualifications

• Responsible for making improvements of processes or products to enhance performance.
• Influence internal and external parties, who regularly have divergent interests, to achieve short-term project objectives.
• Problems faced are difficult and may require understanding of multiple issues.

Skills

• Strong cost consciousness.
• Active drive for performance dialogues.
• Strategic initiative implementation.
• Collaboration with adjacent teams and stakeholders.
• Expert work in General Finance.
• Complex task ownership in cost benefit analysis, budgeting, and risk management.

Benefits

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Umicore is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, or veteran status.

Pay

Competitive salary and benefits package.

Schedule

Full-time position.