Financial Plant Controller

Client Description:

The Professional Placement & Executive Search division of Adecco Romania is currently looking for his client, Romanian food production company, Financial Plant Controller, for the Plant located in Alba Iulia

Responsibilities:

oles and responsibilities

Plan

• Analyze business activity of the Plant,performance from financial perspective; conduct reviews of monthly results and suggest corrective actions to the stakeholders
• Plan and coordinate with other departments in order facilitate the improvement of the overall financial performance

Budgeting

• Organizes the budgeting process: Annual Operating Plan and subsequent budget reviews (LE’s) for sales and marketing, production and overhead costs.
• Actively engaged in the rolling forecasts on a regular basis

Month end closing, analysis and reporting

• Perform all requested activities to ensure the quality of the monthly closing (statutory and analytical) and prepare/review necessary provisions (accruals, one-off expenditure)
• Reporting of the main financial statements (P&L, BS, WoCa, Cash Flow) & deviation analysis vs. budget and previous year.
• Prepare ad-hoc analysis (like NPV, Payback, ROI, etc.) for strategic projects
• Working capital analysis (receivables, payables and inventories) and Cash Flow monitorization.
• Profitability analysis by different perspectives: by Channels, Brands, Categories, SKUs, etc.
• Pricing simulations based on the target profitability
• Prepare reporting & presentations to executive team (actual closing)
• Create ad-hoc reports requested by management

Control

• Setup of financial KPIs for the team; controls & monitories the achievement of their achievement
• Controls and supervises the financial activity of different business unit
• Monitories the overhead costs across the organization and control them to avoid the overspendings vs. the Budget
• Regular assessment of risks and opportunities in field, propose measures to reduce the risks and strengthen the opportunities
• Support& initiate internal audit initiatives and proactively identify weaknesses and recommend corrective actions

Candidate Profile:

• Previous experience in FMCG in a manufacturing company minimum 5 years experience in a similar position in Controlling department (including product costing and/or profitability analysis).
• Bachelor in economics (preferably finance and accounting)
• Preferably knowledge of using SCALA/SAP other ERP and QlikView (business intelligence)
• Strong management accounting skills including ability to effectively communicate with non-finance functions
• Proactivity and self-determination and motivation; creativity and driving to action
• Excellent Microsoft Excel and Power Point skills; knowledge of Database tools (incl. Access) is an asset
• Your spirit of organisation and planification of activities is mostly a fact rather a theory
• Self appraisal: keeping deadlines and the quality of your work are essential criteria