Factory Controller

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA • $80K — $110K *
Waverly, IA 50677In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • B.S. Degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in manufacturing finance roles.
  • At least 1 year in a supervisory position.
  • Strong communication skills across all organizational levels.
  • Proven leadership experience with direct and indirect reports.
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills.
  • Proficiency with financial systems.

Responsibilities

  • Support the Factory Manager in strategic planning and daily operations.
  • Identify and drive cost improvement initiatives within the factory.
  • Coordinate timely and accurate financial reporting and forecasts.
  • Prepare and manage the factory budget with management.
  • Evaluate and control capital investment plans and requests.
  • Ensure compliance and visibility of financial assets and liabilities.
  • Coach and develop finance personnel and promote career growth opportunities.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for career advancement within a global organization.
  • Access to training and development programs for personal growth.
  • Collaborative team environment fostering leadership development.
  • Involvement in strategic decision-making processes.
  • Exposure to internal and external audit functions.
Full Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY:

Support the Factory Manager as a trusted co-pilot within the Factory Leadership Team (vision, organization, practices, initiatives/projects) on a day to day as well as on a long term strategic view. Provide visibility around costs related to the factory processes through the driving of relevant analysis and reporting (monitoring of the budget and controlling the variances), ensure adherence to financial legal requirements and NAS.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Challenge assumptions in seeking cost improvements in factory. Seek for and support cost improvement opportunities, be an active contributor to improvement projects and initiatives validate and review proposed savings.
  • Coordinate reporting of actuals (including organizing and overseeing timeliness and accuracy of period-end close, and promoting ownership of data at source); and forecasts for the factory; ensure transparency of this process; follow up and monitoring of progress to close gaps, ensuring Nestle financial policies, Accounting Standards and Costing Standards are followed.
  • Participate in business planning; prepare and coordinate the factory budget with factory management; Perform revisions or simulations if needed.
  • Develop, control and ensure robust evaluations of capital investment plans and requests.
  • Ensure clear control and visibility of assets and liabilities, including the development, implementation and compliance with internal controls.
  • Coach and develop the factory finance personnel as individuals and as a team, including career and succession planning.
  • Promote clear understanding of financial key figures and costing within the factory, including organizing training sessions for non-specialists.
  • Ensure full transparency of costs and financial impact to the organization of major or strategic decisions relating to the factory.
  • Organize internal and external benchmarking of factory performance and factory product costs.
  • Coordinate and be key contact for internal and external audits within the factory.
  • Supervises the maintenance of the administrative computer equipment and software including the local LAN and HP direct line connections.
  • Supervise factory Buyer and ensure compliance to Nestle vendors and timely follow up on any issues regarding vendor payment or blocked invoices with NBS AP.
  • Conversion cost of site budget.


TEAM STRUCTURE:
  • This position reports to the Factory Manager. Functional support is provided by Operations Controller for the Division, CCC NorAm, and Decision Support NorAm.
  • Supervise a Manager Costing, Accountant Cost, Specialist Compliance, Buyer, and Facilities Specialist.


REQUIREMENTS:
  • B.S. Degree in accounting, or other finance degree or equivalent.
  • Minimum of 5 years experience in a manufacturing facility, providing effective communication, leadership and planning skills. At least 1 year in a supervisory role.
  • Ability to communicate to all audiences within the organization.
  • Leadership experience with direct and indirect reporting relationships.
  • Accomplished planning skills.
  • Aptitude with financial systems.

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