Ops Finance Manager - Manufacturing Cost & Margin (Hybrid)

ViCentra B.V.; De Meern; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ViCentra in Utrecht, Netherlands, seeks an Operations Finance Manager to co-create the financial picture of production. You’ll own cost of goods sold, overhead allocations, inventory valuation, and forecast unit costs, partnering with Operations to drive transparency and accountability.

This build role requires bridging cost accounting with operations, delivering timely closes, and guiding investment judgements.

Qualifications

• Degree in accounting, finance or economics with professional qualification preferred.
• 6–9 years of finance experience in cost accounting or production finance in manufacturing.
• Strong costing, BOM, routing and variance analysis knowledge in a live ERP.
• Experience working with external/contract manufacturers.
• Proven ownership of cost improvement or capacity expansion projects.
• Excellent stakeholder skills and data-driven mindset.
• Advanced Excel and modelling, with interest in AI tools.
• Fluency in English; Dutch is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own standard cost model end to end: BOM, labour, overhead rates and annual cost roll.
• Run the monthly production close and explain variances by driver; close root causes.
• Own inventory valuation and reconcile inventory subledger to GL.
• Interface with contract manufacturing partner: transfer prices and cost impact of changes.
• Translate sales plan into supply/production plan and budget forecast.
• Build gross margin bridge and unit cost trajectory for SLT/Board.
• Set up a consistent financial format for the PMO portfolio and capitalisation.
• Prepare investment appraisals for capacity expansion and new products.
• Establish regular cadence with Operations integrating financial and operational metrics.
• Simplify and automate recurring work using AI to boost output.

Skills

Cost accounting

Forecasting

ERP systems

Excel modelling

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

English fluency

Education

Accounting/Finance degree

CIMA/ACCA or equivalent

Tools

QAD ERP

SAP ERP

Oracle ERP

NetSuite

Power BI

Tableau

Microsoft Excel

Job description

ViCentra in Utrecht, Netherlands, seeks an Operations Finance Manager to co-create the financial picture of production. You’ll own cost of goods sold, overhead allocations, inventory valuation, and forecast unit costs, partnering with Operations to drive transparency and accountability.

This build role requires bridging cost accounting with operations, delivering timely closes, and guiding investment judgements.