Operation Controller

Your Role:

• Acts as a business partner to the site leadership team and an important counterpart for the divisional controllers
• Manages all financial matters that support achievement of strategic and operational objectives including capital expenditure management
• Manages financial planning process for local Operations and proactively supports the reporting and forecasting processes
• Manages activities for database, master data in the ERP (SAP) ( FI/CO master data)
• Appropriately balances operations and business perspectives in developing forecasts, and provides transparency into business drivers, risks and opportunities. Uses a "balanced" approach under the pressure of managing multiple priorities as well as communicating a clear finance strategy to the team
• Monitors business trends and provides relevant data, analyses, and fact-based recommendations to the Site Leadership Team
• Creates and documents improvement potential, guidelines and directives based on best practice and knowledge of internal / external business challenges
• Prepares additional complex ad hoc analyses as required, presenting recommendations to senior management as appropriate
• Provides the Controlling organization with all necessary information in a timely and accurate manner
• Ensures correct standard cost and productions cost for manufacturing sites on an annual basis, and track & explain production order variance,material price variance on monthly basis.
• Responsible for Budgeting, Reporting and Capex Controlling from an financial perspective
• Capital investments, proving financial data to influence investment decisions (at production site & division level if needed)

Who You Are:

• CMA with minmum 10+ Years of experiance in simillar position
• Substantial experience with demonstrated success in a variety of operations / business environments. 
• Experience in pharmaceutical and/or chemical production is a plus

Skills, Performances & Competences required by the position:

• Experience in controlling function with manufacturing operations and project management
• Proficient use of SAP as ERP-system
• Result orientation, accuracy and reliability as a must
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and teamwork skills.
• Operation / business analysis, financial planning and reporting skills that generate business insights that add measurable value. Current knowledge of current trends in finance and functional best-practices
• Must be capable of collecting, assimilating and synthesizing relevant business/operating information and data to develop fact -based recommendations and support business decision making
• Capable of driving change with a proven track record in implementing process improvements
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a matrixed environment with different stakeholders, and capable of gaining commitment and coordinated action for initiatives