Operations Finance Lead: Costing & Margin Architect

Destinus; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Destinus is seeking an experienced Operations Finance Lead to own cost accounting, inventory economics and FP&A across multiple manufacturing sites. You’ll partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering and Finance leadership to connect factory performance with financial outcomes.

You will design and standardize costing frameworks, drive margin improvement, and lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning for the group.

Formación

• Solid experience in operations finance, manufacturing controlling, finance business partnering, cost accounting or FP&A within an industrial, engineering or manufacturing environment.
• Proven experience owning or building product and standard costing frameworks, inventory accounting and manufacturing variance analysis.
• Strong understanding of operational finance, budgeting, forecasting, margin analysis and performance management.
• Experience building finance processes, controls and reporting structures rather than only operating within established frameworks.
• Strong understanding of internal controls and financial compliance within multi-entity or multi-jurisdiction organizations.
• Fluency in English, with another European language considered an advantage.

Responsabilidades

• Own operations cost accounting across multiple manufacturing sites, including inventory accounting, cost of goods produced and sold, capitalization of labor and manufacturing overhead, and manufacturing-related month-end close activities.
• Take ownership of inventory economics, including variance capitalization, COGS release, excess and obsolete inventory and slow-moving stock exposure.
• Ensure manufacturing and inventory accounting is consistent across sites and legal entities and aligned with group accounting policies, IFRS and applicable local GAAP requirements.
• Own and continuously improve the product costing framework across products and sites, including BOMs, routings, labor and overhead rates.
• Drive cost and margin performance through variance analysis across purchase price, usage, mix, yield, labor efficiency and overhead absorption, identifying root causes and translating them into clear actions.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to understand and optimize key cost drivers across materials, conversion, productivity, capacity and waste.

Conocimientos

Operations finance

Cost accounting

FP&A

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Internal controls

ERP systems

MES implementation

Excel advanced

Cross-site collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's or Master's in Finance/Accounting/Engineering

CPA/ACCA/CIMA/CMA

Herramientas

Microsoft Dynamics

MES software

MS Excel

Descripción del empleo

Destinus is seeking an experienced Operations Finance Lead to own cost accounting, inventory economics and FP&A across multiple manufacturing sites. You’ll partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering and Finance leadership to connect factory performance with financial outcomes.

You will design and standardize costing frameworks, drive margin improvement, and lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning for the group.