Plant Financial Controller

Plant Financial Controller Warrington - Hybrid (3 days per week at site) Global Automotive Manufacturing Business £70,000 - £85,000  bonus  benefits Eaton Syalon is partnering with a global automotive manufacturing business to recruit an experienced Plant Financial Controller for a key UK manufacturing facility in Warrington. Reporting directly to the Plant Director, with a functional reporting line into the UK Finance & IT Director, this is a senior and highly visible finance position sitting as part of the Plant Management Team.

The successful individual will play a critical role in supporting the operational and financial performance of the site, providing the Plant Director and wider leadership team with the insight, analysis and challenge required to manage profitability, control costs and deliver against budget. This is a broad role combining financial control, manufacturing finance, cost controlling, investment appraisal, systems, continuous improvement and team leadership.

The successful candidate will need to be comfortable operating close to the manufacturing operation, partnering with colleagues across Finance, Operations, Logistics, Engineering and senior management while maintaining strong financial control across the site. Main Accountabilities General
• Assists the Plant Management in area of responsibility
• Is a member of the Plant Management and take part in decisions about the site
• Participates in the introduction of progress approach through the set-up of tools and their follow up
• Participates in development of the site’s “Progress Plan” and bring forward proposals on actions in area of responsibility
• ISO
50001 accreditation – Ensure respect of energy procedures and operational requirement, participate in energy projects and coordinate energy training.
• Demonstrate leadership as it applies to areas of responsibility regarding the energy performance. Control Management
• Define strategy and budget with all the plant’s departments in conjunction with the BU Finance department and site management
• Ensures budget’s preparation
• Validates the budget with plant director
• Achieves follow-up and analyses the budget and manage associated action plans
• Ensure reporting towards BU
• Month end closing
• Rolling forecast
• Risks and opportunities
• Result’s updating
• Follows investments in compliance with divisions and group’s norms (launching, profitability calculation…)
• In case of non-respect of the plant’s result beside budget’s results, analyses causes, suggests and follows-up action plans with the heads concerned.
• Is accountable, with the logistics’ manager of inventory politics define on the site
• Is empowered to validate inventory gaps in the information system
• As part of year-end accounts’ audit, collects and answers to Auditors questions. Cost Controlling
• Supervises productivity action plans (monitoring discard rates, updating ranges, nomenclatures…) to assure accounting statements and exact cost of production adequacy
• Participates to the plant cost price preparation and hourly rate calculation; check its consistency on connection with the cost plant controller and the technical department
• As part of progress strategy, supervises the analysis of projects’ financial issues and recommendations of works’ priorities areas.
• Manages studies about incidence and projects and plant’s equipment profitability. Manages studies about the analysis of return to investment’s rate. Accounting
• Coordinates accounting team to guarantee correct account-keeping and site’s obligations under the legislation in force.
• Is responsible in conjunction with the BU accounting department of the site’s accounting proper function
• Supervises accounting records’…