Plant Controller

  • Permanent
  • Warwick
  • £60000 - £75000 per annum + Plus car and bens GBP / Year
  • Applications have closed

Job Description

I am currently recruiting an exciting opportunity to support my manufacturing clients in the role of Plant Controller.

This is a great role where you will have exposure to operations and partner with head office finance to maximise efficiency of 3 of their factories.

Manufacturing experience is essential!

The role of the Plant Controller is to manage the controlling of a plant in order to guarantee and optimize the plant’s financial performance and competitiveness. The main missions of the role are to:

  • Ensure compliance to all financial procedures
  • Develop, execute and control internal finance procedures including spending authorization in accordance with Group procedures and policies
  • Ensure site activities are compliant with finance related procedures (product flow, inventory, routings, …), and internal control basics

  • Provide reliable financial/controlling information’s in close relationship with other operational and support functions
  • Lead all financial forecasting processes (budget, periodic forecast, …)
  • Manage reporting process ensuring reliability, consistency, transparency and delay compliance
  • Ensure reliability of standard costing
  • Provide all necessary controlling analysis including variance analysis/standard costs, margin/programs, plant budgetary control , squeeze management and follow up of sales and purchasing prices,…
  • Control and manage the plant’s operating cash flow (capex, inventories, overdues)
  • Act as a business partner toward the plant management, and provide recommendation to the management
  • Participate, with the management of the plant, in the development of action plans resulting from relevant analysis in order to achieve the operational targets, increase plant’s financial profitability and cash optimization (especially identification and implementation of productivity plans)
  • Follow financial impact and progress of action plans
  • Ensure financial awareness of plant operational teams

Qualifications :

The ideal candidate will have/be:

3 to 10 years of professional experience, according to the size and complexity of the site, including a first controlling experience at plant level

  • Fully qualified (CIMA/ACA/ACCA)
  • Familiarity with industrial Information Systems and Flows
  • Good accounting knowledge
  • Business minded and strong teamwork
  • Good communication skills

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