Jobs at Nestle in United States

Bachelor’s Degree

10+ years of experience

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

We are looking for a Factory Controller to support the Factory Manager as a trusted co-pilot within the Factory Leadership Team on a day-to-day as well as on a long-term strategic view. The FC is also tasked to provide visibility around costs related to the factory processes by driving relevant analysis and reporting, monitoring the budget, and controlling the variances while ensuring adherence to financial legal requirements, NAS, and CSM.

• Continually seek cost improvements in the factory by presenting and prioritizing cost improvement opportunities. Projects should be validated and progress constantly reviewed to ensure completion and realization of savings.
• Understand key factory cost drivers and the link to factory variances and GLOBE/SAP reports in order to prioritize cost improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate reporting of actual costs: timeliness and accuracy of input data for Period-end Close (PEC); ensuring external and internal financial policies, Accounting Standards, and Costing Standards are followed. Provides early warning to stakeholders in case of major cost deviations at department level or SKU level.
• Participate in business planning: coordinate, challenge, and prepare the input assumptions for the Annual Cost Estimate (ACE) and Dynamic Forecast (DF). Understand implication of changing volumes, product mix, and NPD on factory results and forecasts.
• Develop, control, and ensure robust evaluations of capital investment plans and requests.
• Ensure full transparency of costs and financial impact to the organization of major or strategic decisions relating to the factory.
• Organize internal and external benchmarking of factory performance and factory product costs.

• Prior experience in Accounting / Finance function (e.g., Sales, Factory, or Supply Chain Controller).
• Manufacturing costing experience; ideally within a factory or supply chain environment.
• Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry experience.
• Exposure to SAP.
• Degree in Business / Finance and/or Accountancy Qualification.
• Proficiency in English and Malay.

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity, and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. We believe our people are our most important asset, so we'll offer you a dynamic inclusive international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, functions, and geographies, working with diverse teams and cultures. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.