Manufacturing Controller

Code de référence: 99343**MANUFACTURING CONTROLLER - (Permanent Position)**:

- Neuchatel, NE, CH- PermanentFondée en 1860 à Florence comme atelier, boutique puis école d’horlogerie, Panerai est réputée pour avoir produit des instruments de haute précision innovants et fonctionnels au profit de la Marine militaire italienne. C’est seulement en 1997, lorsque le Groupe Richemont a acquis la marque, que ces créations, jusqu’alors protégées par les secrets militaires, ont été commercialisées dans le monde entier.

Savant mélange d’esprit italien et d’excellence horlogère suisse, la Maison Panerai se distingue par sa recherche de pointe, son objectif de durabilité et la formation d’employé(e)s modernes résolument passionné(e)s par leur travail.

In order to reinforce our Finance department within our dynamic brand, we are currently looking for:
**Manufacturing Controller**

**YOUR MISSION**:
As part of the Finance Manufacturing Team, you will contribute to follow-up the Manufacture’s performance, with a strong focus on product profitability, monthly actuals reviews, annual budget, rolling forecasts and 3-year strategic plans.

This position is reporting to the Head of Manufacturing Controlling. In addition to Panerai Manufacture, you will be acting as a key contact person for our Product Marketing team based in Milan regarding specific topic.

**HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?**

Business Partnering
- 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

Financial planning & closing:

- 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

Product profitability and coefficients
- 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

Finance transformation projects & process automatization:

- 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

Back-up for the following topics:

- 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

**HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCCESS**
- 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

**HOW DO WE KEEP YOU SMILING**
- You will be part of a dynamic Maison where your skills and talents will be recognized
- You will share with us the same values such as “enriching communities, care attitude, continuous improvement, efficient accountability
- You will work in a multicultural team and develop international experience
- You will navigate with us on our sustainability journey
- You will develop and take your career at the next level with potential opportunities within Maison and the Richemon