Corporate Industrial Controller

The Client (undisclosed)
Our Client is a multinational chemical-pharmaceutical company with international footprint, currently undergoing an important phase of growth and transformation.

Within this context, Finance is playing an increasingly strategic role in supporting the business, with a strong focus on performance management, operational excellence and value creation.

They are now looking for a Corporate Industrial Controller to strengthen their Controlling organization and contribute to the evolution of its controlling model.

Position –

The role:

Reporting to the Group Industrial Controlling Director, the Corporate Industrial Controller will operate within a broad and international scope, covering the whole industrial value chain across Manufacturing, Procurement and Supply Chain.

The key dimensions of the role will be:

Industrial Controlling: manage and further strengthen the core Industrial Controlling activities, ensuring a solid understanding of industrial performance, product costs and profitability, and the overall analytics promptness of a sophisticated, regulated business.

Transformation&Projects: contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of the new Industrial Controlling model, combining recurring responsibilities with a significant project and transformation component.

Business Partnership: work closely with all relevant stakeholders within Finance and across Manufacturing, Procurement and Supply Chain, and develop arguments in front of Executives to sustain how financial and operational information are translated into compelling insights to support business decisions. The candidate will also play an active role in promoting a culture of efficiency across the organization, with the goal to maximize the value creation of the initiatives carried out in the industrial division.

Development Path: grow within a role designed from the outset around a broad scope and a clear development path, with increasing responsibilities over time.

Key Objectives and Responsibilities Gain trust within the organization at all levels and establish solid relationships within Corporate functions and stakeholders, becoming a credible Business Partner to the organization.

Lead the implementation of the new Industrial Controlling Model, with particular focus on Product Costs, Capex and Inventory, supporting the related process redesign. Contribute to the S&OP process, strengthening the connection between Supply Chain and Finance Play an active role in the evolution of the SAP environment and controlling model, including:
Material Ledger implementation on one side, aimed at developing a consistent financial and industrial data model and enhancing profitability analysis across the value chain;  and Plant efficiency project streams on the other, through PMO initiatives related to cost deployment, plant efficiency, capacity utilization and decomplexity

Enhance the current Controlling / Reporting Model to enable quicker and effective analysis of industrial performance. Manage Budget, Forecast and Planning activities and cadence for the relevant perimeter, identifying trends and challenging figures, and assumptions when appropriate Develop financial evaluations and Business Cases, including Capex investments and Make vs Buy analyses

Provide both Finance and Business stakeholders the information required to increase awareness, sustained by robust analytics, and identify actions to improve P&L and cash flow performance

Support the deployment of Industrial Controlling best practices across the organization and the progressive automation of processes and reporting.

Requirements (“Must have”):

Hard Skills Degree in Economics, Business Administration or Engineering Approximately 8 - 10 years of…