Financial Controller - Maternity cover 12 months

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The Plant Controller is accountable for managing plant financial performance, with full analysis and advice on the financial impact of management decisions, forecasting and budgeting, and implementing systems and reporting practices that support best practice governance and control environments.

• Review and manage the plant expense structure. Identify and lead cost savings initiatives through established Ener Sys frameworks like MDI and X-Matrix
• Review and validate plant monthly financial results in accordance with company rules
• Perform month-end closing for related operations and cost transactions. Analyse the cost drivers, prepare monthly variance reports on plan and forecast differences and their causes, on operating level for scrap, material cost and usage, and production efficiencies
• Provide analysis and advice to management team on plant financial performance
• Lead the preparation, review of the Newport plant annual budget together with management in line with the Company's strategy and Group reporting principles
• Cooperate closely with UK Financial Controller to ensure plant performance is properly reflected in actual results, forecasts and budgets
• Establish and maintain systems and controls over inventory and plant fixed assets
• Establish and maintain accurate and reliable product costing process in an integrated manufacturing ERP system
• Manage, review and correct accordingly Transfer Prices applied by the plant on Interco shipments in line with Ener Sys policy
• Review production scrap process and identifies scrap reduction initiatives
• Manage capital investment projects financial assessment and payback criteria and support implementation of capital projects

• Extensive experience leading and managing professional teams and managing a finance function as Finance Manager/Controller
• Minimum of 5 years' accounting experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment
• Excellent working knowledge and application of ERP (including SAP) and Excel
• Extensive experience of implementation and development of finance systems, controls and processes
• Qualified CIMA (preferred) or ACCA/ACA
• Experience working for a global manufacturing company in a matrix working environment

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