AddressThe Financial Controller is responsible for developing Budgets and provides financial and budgetary forecasts for business for use in short and long-term company financial and budgetary planning, ensuring reporting system interoperability and data integrity.
Provide direct business partnering support for Budgeting cycles / Latest Estimate, Variation Analysis and management reporting.
- Product wise P & L responsibility.
- Product Costing.
- Deliver Budget/Targets in line with corporate guidance: External and Internal Costs, T&E, FTE's, Capex & Productivity.
- Provide on time and accurate Rolling Forecast, Reporting of actuals and associated variance commentaries to ensure no surprises
- Work/Support on developing business case for new projects/expansions
- Design, development and delivery of financial reports
- Ensures quick turnaround of ad-hoc analysis, providing accurate information / analysis required for timely decision making
- Supports and collaborates within the finance team in best practice sharing, automation projects, continuous improvement of finance processes, reporting and planning.
- Builds strong business relationship with Business by respecting business needs and strives to cover requirements
- Drives high quality reporting and collaboration within the Finance team by recommending and implementing best practices, quality checks and process excellence.
- Demonstrate the understanding of the drivers of manufacturing variances and implement preventive steps to minimise unfavourable variances.
- Identify and drive productivity initiatives across the business/ plants.
- Lead/Support cross-functional projects to drive simplification throughout the organization and to improve rigor in key Finance processes, reducing costs and improving profitability.
- Model and analyze Sales trends, COGS, Functional Expenses and Other Income & Expenses
- Develop good Risk and Opportunities matrix and review from time to time and also develop actions to mitigate the risks identified.
- Income Protection - Support product supply department to ensure that cogs are within limits.
- Work with supply chain and production department to ensure inventory and write -offs are within the limits.
- Should have ability to communicate the bad news fast and raise early warnings, to help management take corrective steps in the business strategy implementation.
