EMPREGO

Plant Controller

Solvay-Carnaxide, Portugal

General Information:
Location:

  • City: Carnaxide
  • Country: Portugal
  • Region: Europe

Job Category:Finance

Job Type:Regular

Type of Contract:Permanent

Working time:Full-time

Work schedule:Day shift

Solvay Busines Services (SBS) is the global organization supporting internal and external growth by integrating the major end-to-end administrative processes as well as the information services of the Solvay Group, through three strategic objectives: strategic agility and customer centricity, service excellence and talents and innovation.

Job Overview and Responsibilities:
Mission & output
Analysis and contribution to action plans, leading performance improvement

  • Cost control & contribution to value creation & excellence initiatives
  • Capex tracking & contribute to decision
  • Product Costing design & update
  • Acting for compliance & data management enhancement
  • Supporting assets protection & optimization (both tangible and intangible)

Key Responsibilities

  • Follow up closely internal developments in the own perimeter (strategy, business model, financial structures, KPIs, etc) and relevant political, economic and market evolutions
  • Maintain updated knowledge of the concepts, content and tools of the financial databases
  • Provide the GBU Controller with information from its own perimeter relevant for the preparation of the budget, the rolling forecast and the ABC ranking (mainly fixed cost, possibly variable cost, capex, inventories and other performance KPIs)
  • Validate all financial and non-financial data, available in ERP, to control and analyze the performance against scorecard
  • Validate/follow excellence savings and non-quality costs
  • Ensure the reliability of cost accounting key figures and/or P/L reporting
  • Prepare periodic management reports, including analyses, comments and recommendations
  • Define, with the Production Manager(s), the product costing
  • Analyze costs, variances on yields and consumptions
  • Valuate inventories (inventory slow turn reserves)
  • Collect local business information to submit accruals when materil,
  • Provide site data, reports & advice to the GBU Finance team
  • Coordinate cash review related to site forecasts
  • Provide insurances values for his perimeter
  • Validate/follow from a financial standpoint specific contracts & incentives (GIE, EEG, White Certificate, COGEN, Reach,...)

Education and Experience:
Experience

  • 5+ years, in industry context
  • Knowledge of SAP, Business Warehouse, Anaplan is a plus
  • Previous controlling experience (preferably site manufacturing )
  • Working knowledge of Accounting

Education, Skills

  • Bachelor or Master in Business, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering
  • Fluent English

Skills:
Competencies

  • Strong leadership skills
  • Good communicator work with financial and non-financial collaborators
  • Work with complex business/Good analytical skills
  • Ability to synthesize complex issues into actionable activities
  • Capacity to anticipate future trends and developments

Additional Information:

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