Finance Manager

Reporting to the Senior Director Finance & Controlling Europe, China & India and to the Plant Manager, the Finance Manager is in charge of all finance for the plant including accounting, controlling and IT.

The Finance Manager is a member of the Management Team and manages a team of 2 people.

ACTIVITY

• He / She represents the finance department of Chalon’s plant at group level.
• He / She coordinates and supervises the accounting, controlling of the plant, assisted by a team.
• He / She guarantees the reliability of the plant's accounts and the preparation of financial and accounting documents in accordance with the legislation and standards of the group.
• He / She measures the plant's performance through KPIs that are implemented and whose results are transcribed through the group's reports and the plant's internal reports.
• He / She supervises, organizes, and coordinates the finance department (accounting, controlling).
• He / She develops strategies for the plant adapted to its financial situation (budgets, financial arrangements, investment plans, etc.) in collaboration with management.
• He / She ensures the reliability of financial and accounting data for internal and external KPIs.
• He / She represents the plant regarding the various ministries (Finance, Taxes, etc.).
• He / She drafts and follows up on investment requests to the group.
• He / She sets up and follows up insurance files in case of litigation.
• He / She ensures the smooth running of financial audits.
• He / She prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual management control reports for the group (data update, preparation of comments). Internal production reporting.
• He / She develops KPIs for the plant and implements them with the Management Team.
• He / She establishes and controls budget and investments (monthly, quarterly, annual), performance measurement.
• He / She calculates cost prices for new customer requests for sales representatives, calculates cost prices for the analysis of the company's margins, and calculates margins by product and by customer.
• He / She carries out, on request, various and transversal projects for the different departments of the company in a permanent search for efficiency improvement. Develop decision support tools.
• He / She verifies the reliability of information (technical parameters, reports, etc.).
• He / She develops SAP.
• He / She implements internal control throughout the company.
• He / She manages IT issues of the plant and manages the IT service provider for the plant.

Qualifications

• Higher education, Bac+5 in Finance Management.
• Minimum 5 years experience as a Finance or Controlling Manager in a plant.
• Already managed a team.