Financial Controller

How will you make an impact? 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 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

HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCCESS

Master Degree or equivalent in Finance A minimum of 3 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

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