Job Description
- Identify key performance metrics that impact conversion costs and work with operations on reduction opportunities
- Analyze conversion costs and productivity of the plant to drive operational improvement in focused areas; fully support process and initiatives; drive reporting requirements within the plant
- Provide financial leadership for capital management, including working with the manufacturing organization to prepare financial analysis related to cost savings & maintenance projects.
- Drive team to utilize forecast data to drive actions in the plant with flexibility in spending, manning and overall structure
- Key participant in other plant lead team support initiatives and other plant functions such as safety, quality, etc.
- Evaluate and analyze plant profitability at a SKU level
- Educate and train staff on plant financials, spend tracking, and operational levers.
- External/Internal audit support
- Monitoring of standard costs for accuracy
- Assist in the management of the physical inventory audit process
- Implement and ensure compliance of internal financial & operational controls and procedures and SOX related requirements (Building Blocks)
- Inventory control focused on eliminating monthly physical count variances, reduction of slow moving/obsolete write offs; managing inventory; coordinating a successful annual tagged physical inventory
- Control and maintenance of fixed asset inventory to include annual fixed asset audit
- Responsible for financial closing process for assigned plant manufacturing locations
- Scorekeeper of Daily Trackers for labor and variable spend; ensure team has the tools and training to track their spend on a daily basis to optimize performance
- Work with Plant lead team to develop annual plant operating budget and management presentation, monthly forecast updates and full year forecasts
- Analysis of monthly operating variances with explanations to plant team and executive leadership
- Provide day to day financial and operational support
- Perform manufacturing variance analysis
- Responsible for developing plant standard costing
- Review and approve product standard costs reasonableness and correlation to plant operations
- Assist management with financial analysis or special projects
Qualifications:
- At least a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
- 8+ years Accounting/Finance Experience, preferably in a FMCG manufacturing industry.
- Must be highly proficient with Microsoft Applications
- Experience with SAP and Business Information Tools desirable
- Excellent analytical, data-manipulation, problem solving, and communication skills
- Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written and a Thai native speaker
- Strong problem solving skills with the ability to seek resources as needed
Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.