Job description

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.
In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
Job Purpose
Direct site controlling activities for all functions present on site. Actively support the business controlling network by supplying local information when required. Provide business support to the local operations Manager to ensure efficiency and compliance. On those sites where an Operations Function is present, serve as a member of the Site Operations Management Team enabling:

Full finance integration into operations

Support and drive for process improvement initiatives at a site level

Active involvement and challenge of business decisions

Core Responsibilities

Reporting

Provide analyses and interpretations of financial information to various functional management and stakeholders., including Group Controlling, Division Controlling, Operations Controlling, Functional Controlling (e.g. IT, Purchasing, HR)

Site Support

Provide recommendations on inventory management

Manage and coordinate the annual budget process for the site

Attend and actively participate in site operations meetings to stay informed of site activities and provide finance support/action where required

Cost Analysis

Manage annual and periodic requirements of costing activities and analysis of COGS

Provide detailed product costing analysis and support management in the evaluation of product costs.

Analyse process order and product level variances on a monthly basis and work with the operations team to resolve and correct costing issues.

Review COGS summary with management

Coordinate changes in master templates with local operations

Provide input into recipe templates from a costing perspective

Analyse and explain local product margins

Respond in a timely manner to pricing/commercial controlling requests

Financial Performance Analysis

Analyse and coordinate activities associated with operations performance on site

Contribute as an active member in site projects and initiatives that drive process/cost improvements (i.e., Supply Chain, Lean, Stable Operations, BIT, etc.)

Support site management in the development and analysis of business plans, budgets, forecasts, cost savings opportunities, etc

Perform ad-hoc and pro-active analysis of the monthly KPI’s and provide site and operational management with interpretive and predictive information for decision making

Financial Analysis&Reporting

Support requirements associated with the month-end financial close

Review the analysis of the site P&L and identifies variances vs. budget, last year and outlook.

Pro-actively drive and recommend corrective actions Financial reporting as required

Investment Process

Work closely with site engineers, local management and regional controllers’ from the stage of evaluating capital proposals up until value realisation

Manage Fixed Assets

Academic Background

Degree in Accounting/Finance/Economics or professional accountancy qualification

Professional experience

+4 years of experience in cost accounting in a manufacturing environment

Technical Skills

SAP FI/CO

Advanced Excel skills

Project Management

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

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