Senior Program Controller

Faurecia; Puebla de Zaragoza; Presencial; MXN 1,080,000 - 1,441,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading automotive company is seeking a Senior Program Controller for its Puebla Headquarters in Mexico. Responsibilities include managing financial aspects of complex programs, ensuring compliance with controlling procedures, and providing key financial insights to management. The ideal candidate should have 5-8 years of experience in an industrial environment and a strong educational background in Finance. This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact within the company.

Formación

• Minimum 5-8 years experience in an industrial environment including controlling at plant level.

Responsabilidades

• Oversee financial aspects of programs with high complexity.
• Ensure data reliability and optimization of profitability.
• Implement program controlling procedures and golden rules.
• Provide financial communication towards core team and management.
• Participate in budget preparation and audits.

Conocimientos

Qualitative and reliable information provision

Project management

Stakeholder management

Strong communication skills

Autonomy

Negotiation skills

Knowledge of Faurecia Business Model

Ethical standards commitment

Educación

Business School or Engineering background with a Finance degree

Bachelor Degree in Finance

Master's degree in Finance (preferred)

Descripción del empleo

Forvia ?

Forvia is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Your position and environment?

Our Faurecia Automotive Seating - North America Seating Division is looking for you as a Senior Program Controller M / F for our site in Puebla Headquarters, México.

Overall responsibilities and duties :

The Senior Program Controller is responsible of financial aspects for one or several programs with high level of complexity (high sales volume, high upfront amount, international footprint), at acquisition or development phase.

The Program Controller ensures the data reliability in line with process and finance program golden rules, and the optimization of the programs' profitability and cash.

The main missions of the role are :

• Ensure program controlling procedures and Golden Rules compliance
• Ensure program controlling procedure mandatory implementation
• Alert line manager & functional manager in case of discrepancies
• Check material rates & exchange rate alignment with Budget
• Check Plant PMT / Budget P&L alignment with Program BP P&L
• Check ECR / ECO cost incorporation in product / upfront cost
• Check Inflation (Labor, others ) hypothesis compliance vs PMT.
• Secure business plan and customer (offer & LOI) / supplier contractual offer consistency
• Secure BP consistency with payment terms / amount for Tooling, D&D, Piece price, raw mat update, Volume update, Exchange Rate.
• Secure LTA hypothesis in supplier and customer contract
• Secure Legal & Tax (VAT,.) applicable conditions for tooling
• Provide request for quotation (RFQ) BP and Initial Business Plan (IBP) at acquisition phase
• Support, under program manager authority, selected profitability improvement actions
• Support fully the Program Manager in all financial impacts investigations to help driving the program profitability towards target
• Provide Make or Buy financial analysis
• Participate in the sourcing committee
• Provide ECR / ECO full cost view & propose financial driven potential selling price
• Provide and secure R&D controlling inputs
• Validate hours booked by cost center & functions to the program on monthly basis
• Validate technical / work progress versus expenses
• Validate opened & closed Work Package Participate to budget preparation (hours & expenses forecast / program)
• Lead costing team activities and secure business plan update processes in time
• Plan BP schedule & organize costing data flow upstream
• Organize R&Opp financial backing
• Provide program financial communication towards core team, management and plants involved
• Update BP & bridge the gap between release
• Prepare Forecast / Budget / PMT inputs (PPA, costs, selling price, cash, etc.)
• Provide loss to completion calculation for the related program
• Provide monthly (at least quarterly) financial inputs for the program dashboard
• Transfer gradually business plan cost data source to plants from Gate 2
• Communicate & Share program standard cost view to plant
• Validate / Follow up startup costs & convergence plan
• Validate / Follow up plant budget for SOP year
• Participate to program post audit at gate 4
• Highlight Program Cash status and provide recommendation to the management
• Monitor Program Cash Curve at any time & communicate it towards Core team
• Propose action plan in order to achieve cash Target
• Challenge Upfront level in term of cost as well as payment method :
• Capex : Reuse Usage of available capacities
• Reduce payment terms for ECR / ECO upfront cost (cash, short term PPA, etc.)
• Secure tooling & prototype invoicing in due time

Qualifications :

Minimum education level : Business School or Engineering background with a Finance degree or Bachelor Degree in Finance (master preferred) :

Experience :

• Minimum 5 / 8 years experience in an industrial environment including a controlling experience at plant level

Skills & Competencies :

• Ability to provide qualitative and reliable information, and to work on a project management basis
• Ability to manage uncertainty and resist to stakeholder pressure
• Strong communication skills
• Autonomy
• Good negotiation skills and arbitration abilities
• Good knowledge of Faurecia Business Model
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards and willingness to adhere to Faurecia's Code of Ethics and Code of Management