Plant Finance Manager: Cost Control & Growth Partner

Clevr Ph; Philippines; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Clevr Ph in the Philippines is seeking a Finance Manager for the manufacturing plant to oversee financial performance, cost control, reporting, budgeting, and business partnering with Plant Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to improve profitability.

Responsibilities include managing plant P&L, monthly closings, forecasting, standard costing, variance analysis, and capital evaluations; lead the finance/accounting team; ensure internal controls and audits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) mandatory.
• 7–12 years of finance/accounting experience, preferably in food manufacturing, FMCG, beverage, or process manufacturing.
• Strong experience in plant finance, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and product costing.
• Knowledge of ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or equivalent.
• Strong Excel, analytical, communication, and business partnering skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage plant P&L, monthly closing, reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Lead annual budgeting and monthly financial forecasting.
• Manage standard costing, BOM/recipe costing, and manufacturing cost analysis.
• Monitor raw material, packaging, labor, overhead, yield, waste, and production variance.
• Analyze product/SKU profitability and support pricing and margin decisions.
• Partner with Procurement to manage ingredient, commodity, and packaging cost.
• Monitor inventory, obsolete/expired stock, and working capital.
• Identify and drive cost-saving and productivity improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate CAPEX proposals, ROI, budgets, and investment performance.
• Maintain strong internal controls and support internal/external audits.
• Act as finance business partner to the Plant Manager and Operations leadership.
• Lead and develop the plant finance/accounting team.

Skills

Financial analysis

Business partnering

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field

Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

Tools

SAP

Oracle ERP

Excel

Job description

Clevr Ph in the Philippines is seeking a Finance Manager for the manufacturing plant to oversee financial performance, cost control, reporting, budgeting, and business partnering with Plant Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams to improve profitability.

Responsibilities include managing plant P&L, monthly closings, forecasting, standard costing, variance analysis, and capital evaluations; lead the finance/accounting team; ensure internal controls and audits.