Plant Finance Manager

Role & responsibilities

PLANT FINANCE MANAGER

You will partner to plant management and manage the overall financial integrity and

performance of a manufacturing site.

• You will support the Plant Leadership team in preparing and executing business proposals,

verifying assumptions, and checking for daily execution.

• This position will be responsible for completing activities applicable to product costing,

capital budget preparation, operational variance analysis, annual operating plan

development, internal compliance and control reviews and cost improvement analysis.

• Development of long-term manufacturing plans for the site and identifying value

optimization opportunities is a key deliverable.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Driving cost review process to ensure adherence to annual budgets
• Managing the cost efficiency program of the unit with periodic review of site performance on key financial & operational indices and developing a cost roadmap withthe factory leadership.
• Maintaining accounting process and system hygiene with adherence to SOPs
• Drive working capital management in factory
• Sharing profitability dashboard with the top management
• Trial balance and Schedule review to drive balance sheet hygiene and efficiency
• Maintain costing systems and support new product costing
• Driving effective risk management at the site with robust finance processes including IFC
• controls
• Interaction with auditors (Statutory, Internal) with overall responsibility for the financial
• controls at the unit
• Working with the legal and central taxation team on handling tax issues.
• Working with the sales team to identify pricing opportunities/initiatives that deliver improvement in operating profit margins
• Preparation of capital budgets for the unit. Evaluation of financial viability of capital investments.
• Monitoring and controlling the capital spends and driving capital stewardship
• Drive process improvement through benchmarking within and outside the organization
• Manage finance planning and performance management processes and related financial decisions potentially including strategic plan and annual contract planning/forecasting, target development, financial performance reporting/analysis, financial modelling and decision support for a manufacturing plant, plant cluster or hub.
• Support a strong controls and compliance environment in the manufacturing plant.
• Ensure that policies are understood in the organization and that proper controls and compliance are in place.
• Partner with plant management to provide critical financial perspective and insight for business strategies and decisions. You will also monitor and adjust execution of actions.

Preferred candidate profile

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and

knowledge in:

• TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial planning and performance management including analyzing, planning and reporting company financial performance across all financial KPIs and strategy development, investment decisions and cost management to achieve financial targets.
• BUSINESS ACUMEN and understanding of our Staples business, consumer packaged goods industry including Supply Chain/manufacturing dynamics. Relevant experience in a large regional (or global) corporation.
• LEADERSHIP SKILLS including proven business partnering, influencing and communication skills leader managing cross-functional and business partner teams to make decisions and drive results.
• GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET and ability to identify opportunities and leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
• INTEGRITY and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• (a) Internal

Internal Factory finance team, HO Finance Managers, Business/Sales team, Tax Team,

Internal Auditors, Supply Chain team, Procurement team

• (b) External

Auditors (Statutory, Internal, Sox), Tax authorities, Other statutory bodies