Overall Accountability & Leadership:
- Act as the senior finance leader and core business partner to Operations and Supply Chain leadership, taking full accountability for delivering key financial targets (EBIT, Working Capital, FCF).
- Own and drive the delivery of a significant cost-savings target by steering strategic planning, cost control, and financial governance.
- Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing, dual-function finance team covering both FP&A and Supply Chain Finance.
FP&A:
- Champion the development and implementation of BI tools (e.g., Power BI, automated FCF reports) to enhance forecast accuracy and enable data-driven decisions.
- Lead strategic transformation projects, including the automation of manual processes (e.g., Rebates, Costing) and the development of advanced analytics like Cost-to-Serve (CTS) dashboards and Cost analytics dashboards.
- Preparation of monthly business review, operations review presentations
- Lead monthly reports due to regional FP&A team
- Lead annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and strategic plans in collaboration with business and supply chain teams.
- Lead variance analysis (Actual vs. Budget/Forecast) with key drivers and actionable insights.
- Conduct trend and sensitivity analyses to support management decisions.
- Lead monthly management reports, dashboards, and executive presentations.
- Working with other functions to identify risks and opportunities for the business
- Detailed analysis of margins at customer and product technology level
- Partner with leadership to evaluate capital investment projects (CAPEX) using NPV/IRR analysis.
Supply Chain Finance:
- Oversee plant finance operations, including manufacturing overhead budgeting, product line analysis, and evaluation of regional benchmarking targets.
- Optimize working capital by actively directing inventory risk management, analyzing reserves, managing GRN aging, and driving liquidation strategies.
- Partner with Procurement, Production, and Logistics to control costs and improve efficiency.
- Analyze material cost variances (PPV, yield, usage, freight, etc.).
- Track conversion costs (labor, overheads, utilities) vs. standards.
- Work with the SCM team to improve inventory turns, DIO, and overall working capital.
- Support decisions on make-or-buy, supplier negotiations, and logistics optimization.
- Support OPS with financial insights.