Financial Controller

Financial Controller

Join Officine Panerai as a Financial Controller and take on a pivotal role in driving financial excellence across our manufacturing departments. As a key member of our finance team, you will be responsible for providing financial guidance and support to our business partners, ensuring the financial objectives of the organization are met.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a finance business partner to our manufacturing departments, providing financial insights and analysis to inform business decisions.
• Safeguard the financial objectives of the organization by analyzing financial impacts of budget and forecast deviations.
• Drive insightful analysis and financial visibility to enable strategic and operational decisions.
• Share and explain monthly results throughout the manufacturing organization.
• Promote financial discipline within the organization, ensuring quality of financial forecasts and compliance with corporate finance policies.
• Develop a close and proactive collaboration with all manufacturing departments and marketing team.
• Work on ad-hoc finance projects to bring better functional efficiency and effectiveness.

Financial Planning and Closing:

• Develop budgets, estimates, and rolling forecasts according to financial frameworks for most manufacturing departments.
• Monitor financial targets and related processes.
• Referent for Customer Service P&L, providing support for budget building, monthly closing follow-up, and analysis.
• Manage 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 coefficients and profitability.
• Play a pivotal role in animating all actors around product development: Marketing, R&D, Supply-Chain, and Finance.
• Develop and provide insightful analysis on markups.

Finance Transformation Projects and Process Automation:

• Identify, define, and drive process/system improvement projects in line with business needs.
• Work closely with our Finance Business 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.

Requirements:

• Master's Degree or equivalent in Finance.
• A minimum of 3 years of 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.
• 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.

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