Corporate Industrial Controller

Our Client is a multinational chemical-pharmaceutical company with international footprint, currently undergoing an important phase of growth and transformation.

Within this context, Finance is playing an increasingly strategic role in supporting the business, with a strong focus on performance management, operational excellence and value creation.

They are now looking for a Corporate Industrial Controller to strengthen their Controlling organization and contribute to the evolution of its controlling model.

Position – The role:

Reporting to the Group Industrial Controlling Director, the Corporate Industrial Controller will operate within a broad and international scope, covering the whole industrial value chain across Manufacturing, Procurement and Supply Chain.

The key dimensions of the role will be:

• Industrial Controlling: manage and further strengthen the core Industrial Controlling activities, ensuring a solid understanding of industrial performance, product costs and profitability, and the overall analytics promptness of a sophisticated, regulated business.
• Transformation&Projects: contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of the new Industrial Controlling model, combining recurring responsibilities with a significant project and transformation component.
• Business Partnership: work closely with all relevant stakeholders within Finance and across Manufacturing, Procurement and Supply Chain, and develop arguments in front of Executives to sustain how financial and operational information are translated into compelling insights to support business decisions. The candidate will also play an active role in promoting a culture of efficiency across the organization, with the goal to maximize the value creation of the initiatives carried out in the industrial division.
• Development Path: grow within a role designed from the outset around a broad scope and a clear development path, with increasing responsibilities over time.

Key Objectives and Responsibilities

• Gain trust within the organization at all levels and establish solid relationships within Corporate functions and stakeholders, becoming a credible Business Partner to the organization.
• Lead the implementation of the new Industrial Controlling Model, with particular focus on Product Costs, Capex and Inventory, supporting the related process redesign. Contribute to the S&OP process, strengthening the connection between Supply Chain and Finance
• Play an active role in the evolution of the SAP environment and controlling model, including: Material Ledger implementation on one side, aimed at developing a consistent financial and industrial data model and enhancing profitability analysis across the value chain; and Plant efficiency project streams on the other, through PMO initiatives related to cost deployment, plant efficiency, capacity utilization and decomplexity
• Enhance the current Controlling / Reporting Model to enable quicker and effective analysis of industrial performance. Manage Budget, Forecast and Planning activities and cadence for the relevant perimeter, identifying trends and challenging figures, and assumptions when appropriate Develop financial evaluations and Business Cases, including Capex investments and Make vs Buy analyses
• Provide both Finance and Business stakeholders the information required to increase awareness, sustained by robust analytics, and identify actions to improve P&L and cash flow performance
• Support the deployment of Industrial Controlling best practices across the organization and the progressive automation of processes and reporting.

Requirements ("Must have"):

• Degree in Economics, Business Administration or Engineering
• Approximately 8 - 10 years of professional experience, with a solid track record in Industrial / Manufacturing Controlling, preferably gained within structured performance-driven organizations
• Good understanding of manufacturing processes and their main operational and financial value drivers, to sustain business judgement
• Execution leadership rooted on strong knowledge of product costing, cost accounting, industrial performance management, inventory and Capex controlling. Additional knowledge of Procurement and Supply Chain would be nice to have
• Solid trackrecord in Budget, Forecast, Planning and variance analysis
• Strong hands-on capability in managing complexity: a significant amount of data in parallel with developing financial models
• Experience in transformation environments and/or in the implementation or redesign of brand new controlling models would represent a plus
• Good knowledge of ERP systems, with direct exposure to SAP
• Familiarity with BI / Performance management tools

Soft Skills

The combination of strong accountability, technical skills and a genuine business partnering mindset will be key for success.

• Analytical and rigorous, while able to understand the business implications behind the numbers
• Hands-on and detail-oriented, while maintaining an overall business perspective
• Proactive and curious, with the ability to identify opportunities, propose solutions and challenge existing approaches
• Comfortable working in a changing and transformational environment

On the people side, able to interact effectively within the Finance Function, as well as with other internal stakeholders across Operations, Procurement and Supply Chain

• Collaborative, pragmatic and oriented towards results, and continuous improvement
• Resilient under pressure and deadlines
• Comfortable taking initiative and actively contributing to the design of new processes and solutions
• Fluency in English is a must
• Location: North of Italy

Job: This is a permanent full-time job in a highly dynamic context.

Initial Salary range will be in between EUR 70.000 – 80.000, plus Bonus and Benefits, in line with Client commitment to transparent and equitable compensation practices. Final compensation will anyhow depend on real experience and relevant skills. The Client is an equal opportunity employer. xlwpduy

Please note that only those profiles that meet client requirements will be responded to and contacted. Thank you.