Factory Controller

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA • $85K — $110K *
Medford, WI 54451In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 5+ years in financial operations with strong accounting background
  • Experience in FMCG industry
  • University degree in Business, Finance or Accounting, or equivalent
  • Skilled in managing diverse P&Ls
  • Proven analytical and critical thinking skills
  • Excellent communication skills for non-finance audiences
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Responsibilities

  • Identify and drive cost improvement opportunities through team collaboration
  • Challenge cost assumptions based on internal and external benchmarks
  • Manage and ensure accuracy of factory reporting for stakeholders
  • Lead strategic financial analysis for major factory decisions
  • Drive the overall factory budget and business planning processes
  • Evaluate capital investment plans and control requests
  • Coach factory personnel in finance and succession planning

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work closely with factory leadership and external stakeholders
  • Focus on continuous improvement and strategic initiatives
  • Potential for personal development in financial operations and talent management
  • Engagement in compliance and risk management efforts
Full Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY:

The Factory Controller is the steadfast custodian of stewardship and governance for the facility. Trusted co-pilot to the Factory Manager and Factory Leadership Team with direct dialogue with the Operations Controller. Accountable for all factory financial matters (vision, organization, practices, initiatives/projects) and provide fact based decision making on both short term objectives and on long term strategic initiatives. Provide visibility and forecasts around costs related to the factory processes through the driving of relevant analysis and reporting (monitoring of the budget and controlling the variances), ensures compliance to financial legal requirements and NAS.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Cash Flow & Continuous Improvement (20%)
  • 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.


Reporting and Analytics (15%)
  • 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.


Strategic Evaluations (5%)
  • 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.


Business Planning (10%)
  • 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.


Capital Investments (5%)
  • Develop, control and ensure robust evaluations of capital investment plans and requests including post CAPEX evaluations.


Performance Management, Development and Talent (15%)
  • 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.


Knowledge Transfer (10%)
  • Drive clear understanding of financial key figures, costing and business impact within and outside the factory, including organizing training sessions for non specialists.


Compliance & Internal Controls (20%)
  • Manage routine audit activities within the factory to ensure compliance on critical areas eg) NAS, Costing Standards, statuatory 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. This includes establishing a solid and periodic monitoring of the internal controls effectiveness and appropriately escalating business risks.


REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS
  • 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/capacity to benchmark
  • Good working knowledge of product portfolio and brand profitability
  • Good knowledge of Nestlé Costing (CSM, CSD, CSW) [Internal Candidates Only]
  • Proven knowledge of financial concepts including cost accounting, activity based costing, cash flow, NPV, IRR, ROI, etc
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel

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