Manufacturing Controller

your missions

• Act as a finance business partner to Manufacture’s departments to comment, challenge and explain financial performance
• Safeguard the financial objective through both P&L and assets of the departments by analyzing financial impacts of budget/ forecast deviations, and maintaining the independent view of Finance in business decisions
• Drive insightful analysis and financial visibility to enable strategic and operational decisions
• Share and explain the monthly results throughout the manufacturing organization
• Promote financial discipline within the organization, ensures quality of the financial forecasts and compliance of corporate finance policies
• Develop a close and proactive collaboration with all manufacturing departments and marketing team
• Work on ad hoc Finance project by bringing better functional efficiency and effectiveness 
• Develop budgets, estimate and rolling forecast according to the financial frameworks for most of the Manufacturing departments.
• Monitoring of financial targets/KPIs and related processes
• Referent for Customer Service P&L by providing support to the department for building budget, to do the monthly closing follow-up and to provide analysis.
• Manage the reporting in the Group’s reporting tool (Anaplan)
• Collaborate with finance teammates on various closing tasks
• Leader on calculating and analyzing product’s coefficients and profitability.
• You will have a pivotal role animating all actors around product development: Marketing, R&D, Supply-Chain and Finance.
• Develop and provide insightful analysis on markups  
• Identify, define, and drive process/system improvement projects in line with the business needs; whilst continuously improving tools and processes
• Work closely with our Finance Data Analyst for digitalization and data-visualization to provide adequate analysis for business and strategic decision making 
• Industrial management control: analysis of factory losses and cost variance
• Product costing management: build up standards in SAP Product Costing, analysis of variances, certification of finished products and components 

your profile

• Master Degree or equivalent in Finance
• A minimum of 5 years relevant experience in a similar role in an industrial environment.
• Previous experience in the watch industry is a plus
• Strong analytical mind with excellent interpersonal communication skills and problem-solving capability
• Must be results oriented, customer focused and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Good experience or knowledge of SAP/ Business Intelligence with a strong focus on manufacturing specificities
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially in the use of Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of PowerBi and/or SQL would be a plus
• High proficiency in written and verbal communication skills in French and English