Job Details

Job Description

Plant FP&A Specialist provides financial support to the company's management team, contributing to short-term and long-term PLANT target setting, action plan definition, and monitoring. This role collaborates with various departments to produce detailed financial analysis and reporting, enabling informed decision-making and driving production efficiency and plant profitability.

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities
Tasks may include, but are not limited to the following:
•Inventory valuation methods experience
•Standard cost setting (Standard cost evaluation vs actual, Overhead and hour rate calculation, material price standard vs actual)
•Plant efficiencies report- quantities, labor productivity, Earned hour analysis
•Hour rate per department and plant elaboration and monitoring
•Stock monitoring (commodities evaluation), Purchase Price Variation (PPV) analysis
•Production orders variances
•Analysis of variations between forecasting, budget, and actual results (P&L and BS), according to organization specialized control model, systems, procedures, timeline
•Inventory excess and obsolete reserve and analysis
•Plant postprocessing of error records from automatic good movements
•Investment's Return of Investment (ROI) monitoring, new investments evaluation (desired)
•Develop strategic insights and recommendations for investments, cost reduction, and other business decisions (desired)
•Implement and manage planning and control systems to ensure timely and accurate management accounts, focusing on production efficiency and plant profitability, cost reduction and inventory (desired)
•Support management in coordinating the programming process, including quarterly forecasts and ad-hoc financial analyses (desired)
•Provide comprehensive reporting on structure costs and industrial operations (desired)

Qualifications: Education, Experience, and Skills
Required:
•Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance or a related field.
•Professional experience in a similar role: 3-5 years in a manufacturing environment preferably multinational company
•Excel, SAP (required)
•Business Analytics (required)
•Power BI tools. Example Qlik sense (desired)
•Dashboard creation (desired)

Associated Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
•Financial Risk Management: Ability to analyze and manage financial risks to minimize costs and ensure stability.
•Control Model & Cost Accounting: Expertise in producing and evaluating control systems for effective financial management.
•Business Advisory: Ability to identify new business opportunities and conduct financial evaluations to enhance value creation.
•Planning & Forecasting: Proficiency in supporting business planning and evaluating results against key performance indicators.
•Big Data Analytics: Capable of building analytics systems and translating information into actionable business solutions.

Core Job Competencies
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following job competencies:
•Cooperation/Teamwork - Works harmoniously and contributes to building a positive team spirit, responding positively to instructions and procedures.
•Oral/Written Communication - Expresses oneself clearly in conversation and business writing, listens, and gets clarification while following work instructions.
•Attention to Detail - Effectively processes detailed information and follows verbal and written instructions.
•Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time and instills same in team members supervised.
•Fostering Innovation - Ability to develop, sponsor, or support the introduction of new and improved methods, procedures, or technologies
•Managing Work - Establishes a course of action for accomplishing specific goals by planning proper assignments.
•Results Orientation - Focuses on desired results, setting challenging goals, and meeting or exceeding them.

License/Certification
Preferred: N/A

Working Environment & Conditions/Physical Requirements
•Environment: Hybrid (office-home office)
•Physical Requirements: Sedentary work with occasional lifting of up to 10 pounds.
•Travel Requirements: Minimal travel required; occasional trips as necessary.

Equipment or Machines Routinely Used in This Position
•Office equipment, including computer, keyboard, and mouse.

Review Procedures
A regular review and evaluation of the team member's work performance will be conducted.