Plant Controller

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

• Ensure reliable financial information.
• Oversight of costing calculation and reporting task.
• Responsibility for managing the financial aspects of the operations to guarantee and optimize the plant's financial performance and competitiveness.

The main missions of the role are:

• Guarantee the accuracy of the accounting and financial information for the plant according to the Group, Business Group and Division policies, including compliance with relevant accounting and tax rules.
• Ensure the budgetary control of the plant.
• Identify and analyze the variances between the forecasted and actual results.
• Determine and ensure the follow-up on raw materials and monitor the margins on goods sold in a standard costing environment.
• Validate the economic justification of investments and ensure their follow-up.
• Develop plant budgets and associated forecasts, as well as plant reporting in accordance with Business Group procedures and deadlines.
• Propose recommendations and provide support when decisions committing the plant are made.
• Participate in the development of action plans and ensure their financial evaluation and follow-up.
• Control the plant's operating cash flow, especially investment cash flow and accounts, receivables, payables, and investments.
• Management of the dedicated financial team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance or related field of study
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in an industrial environment including an experience in a program team.
• Proficiency with SAP and related financial reporting tools
• Fluent in English
• Automobile industry work experience, preferred.

Skills and competencies:

• Knowledge of cost Management methodology
• Strong analytical ability, and financial acuity
• Good communication skills and teamwork ability
• Ability to work in a matrix organization under pressure.
• Manages complexity.

• At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
• We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
• We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world).
• We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration.
• Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority:
  In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard, aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.