Site Financial Controller

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**Site Controller, your future role?**

Reporting into the Head of Controlling LATAM, you will manage controlling activities for our **Taste & Wellbeing** industrial operations in Argentina. You will provide business support to the local Head of Operations to ensure compliance. You will provide support to the business controlling network in LATAM by supplying local information. And you will be a member of the Site Operations Management Team ensuring:

- Full finance integration into operations.
- Support and achieve process improvement projects at the site.
- Active involvement and challenge of decisions.

You will work onsite four days a week in our manufacturing facilities located at Munro, Gran Buenos Aires, and one day a week from home.

Your **main responsibilities** will be:
**Reporting**

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

**Site Support**
- Provide recommendations on inventory management.
- Manage the annual budget process for the site.
- Participate in site operations meetings to stay informed of site activities and provide finance support/action.

**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.
- Analyze process order and product level variances on a monthly basis and work with the operations team to resolve and correct costing issues.
- Coordinate changes in master templates with local operations.
- Contribute to recipe templates from a costing perspective.
- Analyze and explain local product margins.
- Respond promptly to pricing/commercial controlling requests.

**Financial Performance Analysis**
- Analyze and coordinate activities associated with operations performance on site.
- Contribute as an active member in site projects that create process/cost improvements (i.e., Supply Chain, Lean, Stable Operations, BIT).
- Support site management in the development and analysis of business plans, budgets, forecasts, and cost savings opportune ties.
- Perform ad-hoc and proactive analysis of the monthly Indicators and provide site and operational management with interpretive and predictive information for decision-making.
- Participate in forecasting and mid-to long-term planning for the factory.
- Support management in the strategic decision-making for the site.
- Perform regular cost center and investment reviews and follow-ups. Promote resolutions of variance issues.
- Review SOD within the ERP system and manage any change requirements at a local level.
- Support requirements associated with the month-end financial close.
- Review the analysis of the site P&L and identify variances vs. budget, last year and outlook.
- Financial reporting.

**Investment Process**
- Work with site engineers, local management and regional controllers from the stage of evaluating capital proposals up until value realization.
- Manage Fixed Assets.

**You**

If you are you someone who wants to shape your world, who excels in being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment, who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are, then join us - and improve your world.

Your professional profile includes:

- University degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics with Master’s Degree.
- At least 7 years of experience in Controlling and Cost Accounting in manufacturing B2B companies of the foods or chemicals industries.
- Experience of industrial costing processes.
- Fluent English, both oral and written.
- Experience using SAP FI/CO.
- Advanced Excel skills (can perform complex functions).
- Experience in Project Management.

**Our benefits**
- Annual bonus.
- Health & medical plan coverage.
- Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions.
- International working environment.
- Discounts program.
- Quality of Life program.

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