Strategic Plant Controlling Leader

Continental Group Sector ContiTech; Aguascalientes; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Continental Group Sector ContiTech in Mexico seeks a Finance and Controlling leader to manage plant Controlling, budgeting, and reporting. You will translate strategy into actionable plans, drive cost calculations and investments, and partner with production, supply chain and CST for value creation.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in finance/controlling, leadership experience, English proficiency, and hands-on SAP know‑how.

Formación

• University degree, preferably in business administration, accounting, finance, controlling or related discipline (depending on plant size)
• 5 or more years of professional experience in various finance and controlling functions
• Cross functional experience in production, supply chain, quality or CBS preferred
• 3 or more years in a leadership position, preferably in operational units with functional and disciplinary responsibility for other individuals
• Experience in working with international teams on production topics and understanding of foreign cultures
• Proficient in English
• Cost and financial accounting
• Production Variations
• Finance and controlling IT systems (e.g. SAP R/3, S/4, etc.)
• Problem solving and decision making tools and techniques as well as total cost management
• Leadership & management skills (incl. team-building, delegation, performance management and people development techniques)
• Project management skills, tools and techniques
• Preferred knowledge of automation tools e.g. Power BI, Knime, etc.

Responsabilidades

• Manage and coordinate all controlling activities for the plant
• Translate plant controlling strategy into action plans and ensure implementation
• Contribute to strategic and operative planning of the plant (e.g. with respect to investments, capacity and headcount planning)
• Ensure the achievement of controlling targets according to internal and external customer expectations
• Initiate and control investments for controlling equipment (e.g. training materials, external trainings, etc.)
• Interface to sector or BA functions in order to gather local controlling requirements and demands and other feedback
• Participate in and/or steer global or local controlling related and cross-functional projects
• Conduct employee dialogues, personnel development and coaching
• Responsible for fixed assets analysis and fixed assets inventory count
• Manage and review standard cost calculations on new products as well as yearly update of Standard costs at year-end
• Prepare, review and manage the budget and forecast of controlling cost centers
• Implement and conduct activities according to the budget established
• Ensure that the financial goals are met
• Ensure and apply Continental finance and accounting guidelines and ensure implementation and conformity with all Continental controlling systems, tools, standards and processes with high data quality and transparency
• Ensure production controlling according to standards (production order controlling, production parameters like scrap and utilization, shift model review, perform standard costs calculation, support of plant variation analysis, support of cost center controlling all areas)
• Ensure investment controlling (valid for local investments e.g. infrastructure) according to standards (preparation of financial analysis supporting investment and eCRs, management of plant invest budget)
• Ensure personnel controlling according to standards (evaluation of staffing utilization, shift model analysis (variations) as input for production planning, fix HC planning and allocation, ePRs)
• Ensure logistics controlling if needed (according to plant size) according to standards (inventory analysis and reporting - WOC, special freights, ICO business like transfer price calculation, equalization)
• Support monthly closing and report monthly according to standards
• Prepare standard reports to plant and business management
• Prepare and review monthly results (e.g. P&L)
• Prepare budget and forecasts based on production volumes
• Analyze variations/operational and non-operational effects

Conocimientos

University degree

5+ years experience

Cross-functional experience

Leadership experience

International teams

Proficient in English

Cost accounting

Production variations

Finance IT systems

Problem solving

Leadership skills

Project management

Automation tools

Educación

Business/Finance degree

Herramientas

SAP R/3/S/4

Power BI

Knime

Descripción del empleo

Continental Group Sector ContiTech in Mexico seeks a Finance and Controlling leader to manage plant Controlling, budgeting, and reporting. You will translate strategy into actionable plans, drive cost calculations and investments, and partner with production, supply chain and CST for value creation.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in finance/controlling, leadership experience, English proficiency, and hands-on SAP know‑how.