Factory Controller Nestle Waters

Nestlé; Viladrau; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading global food company seeks a Financial Controller at its factory in Viladrau, Spain. This role involves managing budgets, driving financial improvements, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Candidates should have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and 3-5 years of experience in cost accounting within the manufacturing sector. Benefits include competitive salary, comprehensive social benefits package, and professional growth opportunities. The ideal candidate has experience with ERP systems like SAP and strong analytical skills.

Servicios

Competitive salary

Comprehensive social benefits package

Flexible remuneration

Health insurance

Restaurant card

Professional growth opportunities

Formación

• 3–5 years of experience in financial controlling or cost accounting.
• Familiarity with budgeting, forecasting, and cost control.
• Experience in manufacturing or food production environments.

Responsabilidades

• Identify and drive cost improvement opportunities in the factory.
• Manage factory reporting and ensure financial compliance.
• Conduct strategic financial analysis for key decisions.

Conocimientos

Cost improvement analysis

Financial reporting

Budget management

Compliance and risk management

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration

Herramientas

SAP

Descripción del empleo

Overview

The role: Reports directly to the Factory Manager and serves as a steadfast guardian of financial stewardship and governance for the facility. Acts as a trusted co-pilot to the Factory Leadership Team, ensuring sound financial vision, organization, and practices. Provides fact-based decision-making for short-term objectives and long-term strategic initiatives. Delivers cost visibility and accurate forecasts through robust analysis and reporting, monitors budgets, and controls variances. Ensures compliance with financial regulations and NAS standards. Plays an active role in driving continuous improvement and shaping factory strategy as a key member of the leadership team.

What you’ll do

• Identify and drive cost improvement opportunities, be an active contributor to improvement projects and initiatives, validate, review and track proposed savings. Challenge assumptions for cost improvements in factory based on internal and external benchmark information on factory performance and costs. Actively drive NCE activities within the factory and ensure activities are in alignment with business OMP.
• Manage factory reporting of actuals and forecasts for the factory (Factory Cost Dashboard); ensure transparency, accuracy and timeliness of this process; follow up and monitoring of progress to close gaps, ensuring Nestle financial policies, Accounting Standards and Costing Standards are followed by promoting ownership of data at source. Identifying, developing, and gathering the resources necessary to complete the project.
• Strategic financial analysis relating to major or strategic decisions related to the factory to ensure full transparency of costs and non-financial implications.
• Drive business planning; manage the overall factory budget with factory management team as well as being the critical liaison between factory and Head Office in the business planning process. Perform forecasts, revisions or simulations if needed.
• Ensure clear control and visibility of assets and liabilities, including the development, implementation and compliance with internal controls in all areas. Accountable for Segregation of Duties (SODs) and assessment of compensating control effectiveness.
• Manage routine audit activities within the factory to ensure compliance on critical areas eg) NAS, Costing Standards, statutory accounting/tax, OPEX guideline and appropriately escalate business risks. As the Champion of compliance & risk management for the site is the key contact for internal and external audits within the factory.
• Drive clear understanding of financial key figures and costing within the factory, including organizing training sessions for non-specialists.
• Develop, control and ensure robust evaluations of capital investment plans and requests including post CAPEX evaluations.

We offer you

• Great benefits including competitive salary and a comprehensive social benefits package. We have one of the most competitive pension plans on the market, as well as flexible remuneration with tax advantages: health insurance, restaurant card,
• Personal and professional growth through ongoing training and constant career opportunities reflecting our conviction that people are our most important asset.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration
• 3–5 years of experience in financial controlling or cost accounting, ideally within manufacturing or food production environments.
• Familiarity with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and cost control in a factory setting.
• Proficiency in ERP systems SAP, and financial reporting tools.

Bonus Points If You

• CPA (Certified Public Accountant) or CMA (Certified Management Accountant) is often preferred.
• Knowledge of food industry standards and compliance frameworks such as HACCP, ISO 22000, and food safety regulations is highly valued

About Nestlé

We are Nestlé, the world’s largest food and beverage company, present in more than 185 countries and supported by a global team of over 275,000 people. Our Corporate Business Principles—rooted in fairness, honesty, and respect for individuals, families, communities, and the planet—guide everything we do and inspire us to make a positive difference. Our purpose is clear: unlocking the power of food to enhance quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. That’s why we are committed to leading the transition toward a more sustainable future, working to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

Want to learn more? Visit us at: https://www.nestle.com

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How we will proceed

You send us your CV → We contact relevant applicants → Interviews → Feedback → Job Offer communication to the Finalist → First working day