Finance Manager, Plant Controller at JM Huber Corporation Okmulgee, OK

Position Summary

The Finance Manager, Plant Controller provides critical support in budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis by serving in an individual contributor capacity. This role focuses on delivering accurate financial insights and reports to support the FP&A team and Finance business partners. The Finance Manager, Plant Controller ensures maximal data quality and consistency across financial processes within the team, playing a vital role in supporting financial decision-making.

This role is not open to outside agencies.

• Advisor and business partner to the plant manager(s) for financial and legal tasks
• Proactive member of the plant leadership team(s), providing financial leadership to the business
• Provide decision support on short-, medium- and long-term issues using data, sensitivity analysis, information and business understanding
• Partner with plant operations teams to identify, support and measure productivity & continuous improvement projects within the plant
• Collaborate with Specialist teams, including Tax and Treasury to create effective and integrated financial solutions
• Support the creation of the financial statements in accordance with local and IFRS regulation

• In liaison with GSS and other functions (e.g., purchasing) ensure the reliability of cost information in SAP and other information systems
• Support the business in setting cost management and cost reduction plans; monitor and comment upon achievement versus these plans
• Understand and monitor the drivers of plant working capital, including the coordination of physical inventory counts and cycle counts and overseeing any necessary stock adjustments

• AOP process owner for the plant(s), coordinating fix cost budgeting, bill of materials and master recipe development including energy setup, maintenance planning and depreciation
• Support long term plan development (e.g., AOP process with lower level of detail)
• Develop & monitor coherent and integrated KPIs and performance measures relevant to the plant
• Prepare sensitivities and understand the relevant risks and opportunities in the plan/forecast to build confidence that it is robust and achievable

• Analyse and prepare commentary on management reports prepared by GSS
• Prepare variance and other analysis and commentaries where not provided by GSS
• Comment on costs by product, cost centre and plant and on periodic variances and their causes
• Follow up the causes of variances, agree actions with non-finance teams to fix them and monitor successful completion
• Translate business data and information into accurate financial models to support decision-making
• Primary accountability for dealing with requests from global management, global operations FPA and group finance related to the plant

• Support engineering and other non-finance colleagues in the plant(s) and in central operations/ commercial/ strategy teams to develop and analyse prospective capital investment projects; prepare CAPEX documentation and provide financial impact calculations
• Support the Supply Chain FD in the fulfilment of their responsibilities in this area
• Monitor and control capital investment projects during and after implementation against the budget
• Prepare post-investment review of the project, in collaboration with the central operations/ commercial/ strategy teams

• Ensure and coordinate timely and proper execution of the monthly, quarterly and year-end closing processes (SAP)
• Ensure adequate and robust internal controls are in place and operating effectively
• Ensure the Group’s policies and minimum control standards are understood and applied within the plant
• Collaborate and support internal and external audits

• Continuously evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of finance processes relating to the plant, and their consistency with finance processes across the rest of the global plant network
• Proactively implement improvements, including transition of finance processes to GSS if appropriate
• Provide review, validation and approval of all corporate recharges into…