Regional Plant Controller

Watlow; Kulim; Vor Ort; MYR 180.000 - 300.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Watlow in Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Kedah, is seeking a senior plant finance leader to drive budgeting, forecasting, costing, and capital investment decisions. The role requires partnering with regional operations, supply chain, and commercial teams to ensure robust financial planning and performance management.

The ideal candidate will possess a CPA/CA/ACCA or equivalent, 10+ years in manufacturing finance, ERP experience (Oracle preferred), and strong leadership with a track record of

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related discipline.
• Professional accounting qualification such as CPA/CA/CMA/ACCA strongly preferred.
• Fluent business English; additional regional language is an advantage.
• Strong data-analysis capability and proficiency with ERP/Oracle.
• Proven people-leadership and change-management experience across functions and cultures.

Aufgaben

• Partner with regional operations, plant managers, and procurement to evaluate performance and risks.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and scenario analyses.
• Establish plant reporting routines for revenue, margin, cost, productivity, and cash flow.
• Govern standard costing, BOMs, routings, overhead rates, and variance analysis.
• Drive working capital improvements in inventory, payables, receivables, and cash conversion.
• Review business cases, track approved spending, and conduct post-investment reviews.
• Identify and mitigate financial and operational risks, including FX exposure.
• Standardize finance processes, improve ERP reporting, and automate recurring analyses.
• Lead, coach, and develop finance teams; promote collaboration and growth.

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance/Business

CPA/CA/CMA/ACCA preferred

Fluent business English

Strong data analysis

Leadership and cross-functional influence

Tools

ERP systems

Oracle

Advanced Excel

Jobbeschreibung

** Must be willing to work at Kulim Hi-Tech Park, Kedah.

Key Responsibilities

• Business partnership: Partner with regional operations, plant managers, supply chain, procurement, and commercial teams to evaluate performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support fact-based decisions.
• Planning and forecasting: Lead plant budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and scenario analysis; challenge assumptions and ensure alignment with operational plans and regional targets.
• Performance management: Establish consistent plant reporting and review routines for revenue, margin, conversion cost, productivity, labor, overhead, inventory, capital expenditure, and cash flow.
• Cost accounting: Govern standard costing, bills of material, routings, overhead rates, labor rates, variance analysis, and inventory valuation across the region.
• Working capital: Drive improvements in inventory, payables, receivables, and cash conversion through clear ownership, analytics, and operational action plans.
• Capital investment: Review business cases, validate financial assumptions, track approved spending, and conduct post-investment reviews to confirm delivery of committed returns.
• Risk management: Identify and mitigate financial and operational risks, including obsolete inventory, excess capacity, unfavorable purchase-price exposure, customer or supplier concentration, and foreign-exchange impacts.
• Process improvement: Standardize regional plant finance processes, strengthen data quality, improve ERP and reporting utilization, and automate recurring analysis where practical.
• Team leadership: Lead, coach, and develop plant controllers and finance teams; set clear expectations, build succession plans, and promote collaboration and professional growth.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline; a professional accounting qualification such as CPA, CA, CMA, or ACCA is strongly preferred.
• Typically 10 or more years of progressive finance experience, including significant responsibility in manufacturing, plant controlling, cost accounting, or operations finance.
• Strong knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, internal controls, and capital investment evaluation.
• Proficiency in ERP, Oracle experience preferred; strong spreadsheet and data-analysis capability.
• Proven people-leadership and change-management experience, with the ability to influence across functions and cultures.
• Fluent business English; additional regional language capability is an advantage.