Plant Controller

Original Composites and Fibers; Zele; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Original Composites and Fibers in Dendermonde, Belgium, seeks a Financial Leader for their plant operations. This role requires 5-7 years in manufacturing finance, focusing on budgeting, forecasting, and compliance.

The ideal candidate has a degree in Finance, strong knowledge of manufacturing costing, and experience with ERP systems. This position promotes a zero-loss mindset and involves 30% travel.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years’ professional experience with exposure to manufacturing finance or plant controlling.
• Strong ownership and team mindset.

Responsabilités

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes.
• Provide insightful analytics to support operational decisions and anticipate risks.
• Ensure a strong internal control framework for compliance.

Connaissances

Manufacturing costing

Data accuracy

Business partnering

Influencing capability

Formation

Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field

Outils

ERP systems (e.g., SAP)

BI tools

Description du poste

About Us

Original Composites and Fibers (OCF) is a global leader in glass reinforcement solutions for the composites industry. Recently separated from Owens Corning, the business now operates independently under the Praana ownership model, continuing a strong legacy of innovation, manufacturing excellence, and customer partnership.

We are building lean, execution-focused corporate functions to support commercial operations, regulatory compliance, and foundational governance across Europe (including the Middle East). This role supports the ongoing legal needs of OCF’s European entities in a complex, multi-jurisdiction environment.

About the Role

Provides financial leadership at plant level, ensuring strong financial performance, robust internal controls, and effective business partnering with operations to drive productivity, cost efficiency, and decision‑making.

Act as a trusted business partner to the plant leadership team:

• linking finance with operations supply chain and business strategy
• challenging assumptions, influencing decisions and ensuring financial implications are clearly understood and embedded in operational actions.

The role reports to the regional manufacturing finance leader.
It requires travelling 30% of time.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long‑term planning processes
• Own monthly closing, financial reporting, and projections
• Analyze variances vs. plan/forecast and communicate insights to management
• Ensure working capital and profitability targets are achieved

Business Partnering & Decision Support

• Provide insightful analytics to support operational decisions and anticipate risks
• Support investment analysis, CAPEX decisions
• Educate plant teams on financial KPIs and performance drivers
• Ensure alignment between plant strategy, operational objectives and financial targets, with a clear link to profitability and cash performance.

Cost Management & Productivity

• Support productivity improvement, cost reduction, capital efficiency and corrective action plans
• Promote a zero‑loss mindset and actively contribute to cost deployment initiatives
• Identify benchmarking opportunities and promote best practice sharing
• Act as a finance coach for non‑financial leaders, developing financial acumen across non‑financial leaders to drive ownership of performance.

Internal Controls & Compliance

• Ensure a strong internal control framework to ensure compliance with financial policies to effectively lead the finance function in the plant
• Lead representation letter process and control sign‑off

Qualifications & Requirements

Education & Experience

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 5-7 years’ professional experience with exposure to manufacturing finance / plant controlling

Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing costing
• Strong focus on data accuracy, financial discipline and process optimization/standardization
• Familiarity with ERP systems (e.g., SAP) and BI tools

Leadership Skills

• Strong ownership and team mindset
• Business partnering and influencing capability
• Proven ability to operate in a matrix organization and cross‑functional environment, prioritize activities and shift focusses depending on operational needs
• Capability to translate financial insights into operational actions