Manufacturing Plant Controller

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

The Thales Group employs over 83,000 people worldwide, 850 of them in Switzerland. Thales' roots in Switzerland date back to the mid-19th century. Since that time, we have become an authoritative and trend-setting provider of high-tech solutions, key technologies, systems and services in the fields of Transportation Security, Defense & Security, Satellite & Space Technology and Digital Identity & Security.

Thales Digital Identity and Security offers an unrivaled portfolio of physical and digital identity and security solutions based on technologies such as biometrics, privacy and cybersecurity.

For our Digital Identity and Security business at our location in Aarau we are looking for a

**Manufacturing Plant Controller (M/F/d) (Ref. No. R0179908)**

**You will enjoy having this responsibility**:
In this role you are taking care of all manufacturing and plant controlling activities for our plants in Aarau (Switzerland) and Ditzingen, Stuttgart (Germany).

**It also involves the following tasks**:

- Advise and assist our department managers in analysis of the financial impacts of strategic business decisions taken
- Controlling, analyzing and reporting of manufacturing and production figures, Costing of new products and processes as well as actual factory results
- Analyzing of numbers and figures such as CapEx, material variances analysis, inventory costing and calculation of inventory reserves
- Annual budgeting and monthly forecasting process
- Participation in different improvement projects and support implementations of internal control systems
- Definition of standard costs, transfer prices for intercompany deliveries
- Reconciliation of external sales COGS and statutory COGS of drop shipment and materials sales
- Preparation of journal entries in management books (provisions, cost allocations, inventory etc.)

**You have**:

- Bachelor or Master degree with focus on Finance, Accounting or comparable
- Professional experience in the field of business, finance or manufacturing and plant controlling
- Profound knowledge in using Excel as well as Finance and ERP systems
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Critical knowledge of accounting principles
- Ability to turn and visualize results and data into meaningful management information
- Full proficiency in English, either French or German also preferred

You want to learn more? The Talent Acquisition Team is looking forward to hearing from you.

Phone:
+41 44 457 18 01

Look forward to the collegial climate of a Swiss SME and the international reach of a global corporation with employment conditions that leave nothing to be desired. Thales lives diversity in everyday life, values work-life balance and where possible enables flexible working.