Site Financial Controller

Cambridge University Press & Assessment; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in food and fragrance seeks a Site Controller for its operations in Argentina. This role requires managing financial processes, supporting decision-making efforts, and ensuring compliance within industrial operations. Candidates must possess a Master's degree in Finance or related fields, with at least 7 years of experience in controlling and cost accounting, and proficiency in SAP and advanced Excel. The position offers an annual bonus, health coverage, and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Health & medical plan coverage

Career Development Opportunities

International working environment

Discounts program

Quality of Life program

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in Controlling and Cost Accounting in manufacturing B2B companies of the foods or chemicals industries.
• Experience of industrial costing processes.
• Can perform complex functions in Excel.

Responsibilities

• Manage controlling activities for Taste & Wellbeing industrial operations.
• Support and achieve process improvement projects.
• Provide analyses and interpretations of financial information to management.

Skills

Controlling

Cost Accounting

Fluent English

SAP FI/CO

Advanced Excel

Project Management

Education

University degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics with Master’s Degree

Job description

Site Controller – Taste & Wellbeing (Argentina)

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Reporting into the Head of Controlling LATAM, you will manage controlling activities for our Taste & Wellbeing industrial operations in Argentina. You will provide business support to the local Head of Operations to ensure compliance. You will provide support to the business controlling network in LATAM by supplying local information. And you will be a member of the Site Operations Management Team ensuring:

Responsibilities

• Full finance integration into operations.
• Support and achieve process improvement projects at the site.
• Active involvement and challenge of decisions.
• Provide analyses and interpretations of financial information to multiple functional management and partners.
• Provide recommendations on inventory management.
• Manage the annual budget process for the site.
• Participate in site operations meetings to stay informed of site activities and provide finance support/action.
• Manage annual and periodic requirements of costing activities and analysis of COGS.
• Provide detailed product costing analysis and support management in the evaluation of product costs.
• Analyze process order and product level variances on a monthly basis and work with the operations team to resolve and correct costing issues.
• Coordinate changes in master templates with local operations.
• Contribute to recipe templates from a costing perspective.
• Analyze and explain local product margins.
• Respond promptly to pricing/commercial controlling requests.
• Analyze and coordinate activities associated with operations performance on site.
• Contribute as an active member in site projects that create process/cost improvements.
• Support site management in the development and analysis of business plans, budgets, forecasts, and cost savings opportunities.
• Perform ad-hoc and proactive analysis of the monthly indicators and provide site and operational management with interpretive and predictive information for decision-making.
• Participate in forecasting and mid-to long-term planning for the factory.
• Support management in the strategic decision-making for the site.
• Perform regular cost center and investment reviews and follow-ups.
• Promote resolutions of variance issues.
• Review SOD within the ERP system and manage any change requirements at a local level.
• Support requirements associated with the month-end financial close.
• Review the analysis of the site P&L and identify variances vs. budget, last year, and outlook.
• Financial reporting.
• Work with site engineers, local management and regional controllers from the stage of evaluating capital proposals up until value realization.
• Manage Fixed Assets.

Qualifications

• University degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics with Master’s Degree.
• At least 7 years of experience in Controlling and Cost Accounting in manufacturing B2B companies of the foods or chemicals industries.
• Experience of industrial costing processes.
• Fluent English, both oral and written.
• Experience using SAP FI/CO.
• Advanced Excel skills (can perform complex functions).
• Experience in Project Management.

Benefits

• Annual bonus.
• Health & medical plan coverage.
• Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions.
• International working environment.
• Discounts program.
• Quality of Life program.