Factory Finance Controller: Strategic Partner to Leadership

Nestlé; Nunspeet; On-site; EUR 83,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13th month salary

25 vacation days

Corporate fitness programme

Urban Sports Club access

Career development opportunities

Baby food for 1 year (per child)

E-bike lease

Job summary

Nestlé Netherlands is seeking a Factory Controller in Nunspeet to partner with the Factory Manager and Leadership Team. You will drive financial insight, cost performance, budgeting, and reporting for multiple lines and SKUs, ensuring governance and CAPEX evaluation are integrated into operations.

The role demands a master’s degree in finance, extensive costing experience, and fluency in English, with leadership capability to coach a factory finance team.

Qualifications

• A relevant university-level master’s degree.
• approximately 10 to 15 years of relevant Finance experience.
• strong experience in factory costing and business controlling, preferably in a complex manufacturing or FMCG environment.
• advanced financial analysis skills and the ability to work with large and complex datasets.
• strong knowledge of accounting standards, financial controls, compliance, budgeting and forecasting.
• leadership and coaching experience, combined with proficiency in Excel and SAP S/4HANA and professional fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Act as the strategic finance partner to the Factory Manager and Factory Leadership Team, providing clear financial insights and supporting day-to-day and long-term business decisions.
• drive factory cost performance by challenging assumptions, identifying and validating savings opportunities and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
• lead the factory’s budgeting, forecasting and business-planning processes, creating transparency and accountability around financial targets.
• ensure timely and accurate financial reporting and period-end closing in line with Nestlé Accounting Standards.
• maintain strong governance and internal controls, ensure audit readiness and compliance with relevant requirements, and lead the financial evaluation of CAPEX projects and investment proposals.
• lead, coach and develop the factory finance team while improving financial understanding, processes, systems, reporting, data quality and digital capabilities across the factory.

Skills

Financial analysis

Excel

SAP S/4HANA

Accounting standards

Leadership

English fluency

Education

Master’s degree (Finance/Accounting)

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Nestlé Netherlands is seeking a Factory Controller in Nunspeet to partner with the Factory Manager and Leadership Team. You will drive financial insight, cost performance, budgeting, and reporting for multiple lines and SKUs, ensuring governance and CAPEX evaluation are integrated into operations.

The role demands a master’s degree in finance, extensive costing experience, and fluency in English, with leadership capability to coach a factory finance team.