Director - Fp&a - Hockenheim, Deutschland - Sonoco

Sonoco

Geprüftes Unternehmen

Hockenheim, Deutschland

vor 2 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

beBee Recruiter

Beschreibung

While reporting to the
VP Finance, you will be responsible for being the business partner to the management team and have overall responsibility for budgeting and planning to include financial analysis for the division's strategic plans, commercial analysis, pricing, acquisitions analysis, capital planning and coordination, working capital control, and product costing.

You will play a pivotal role between the finance team various stakeholders and work with division managers to proactively identify improvement opportunities, to develop improvement plans, and develop and to evaluate growth opportunities.

You will ensure the business is making key critical business decisions based on accurate and timely data and you and your team will provide the link between the financial controllership team and the business unit for reporting business performance and providing in-depth analysis of variance to plan and prior year performance.

What You'll Be Doing:

Provide strategic direction to division management with a key lead in business decision making.
Lead the business unit finance team in management reporting, encompassing, LRP, annual budgeting, quarterly and monthly forecasting as well monthly management reporting analysis.
Support and manage the operational cash flow of the business by Leading division to effectively manage working capital, providing information necessary for control of inventories, receivables and payables and also manage capital spending cashflows.
Analyze and recommend action on major capital projects and Prepare capital spending projects and provide and support post completion audits on capital expenditures.
Support the strategic business planning process, providing essential analysis on key KPI's and how the business is tracking to these targets.
Recommend and support the business in projects to control cost, increase revenue and maximize and drive efficiencies and productivity.
Establish an environment fostering continuous improvement, involvement, teamwork, and both and internal and external customer focus by agreeing upon goals, communicating expectations, providing training, resources, equipment, encouragement and displaying the expectation to make factbased decisions.
Providing the key link between the financial controllership team and the business unit finance team to make sure we are acting and working as one Sonoco finance team and supporting the monthly closing cycle and assisting during both internal and external audit process.
Lead a team and develop talent to ensure team members are engaged and performing at a high level while also providing development opportunities to ensure succession opportunities are filled internally.
Perform and communicate the expectation to all direct reports, all duties in a manner which ensures the quality expectation of all customers, both internal and external, are met or exceeded. Collaborate with direct reports' job performance, counsel with them regarding strengths and areas needing improvement. Counsels them on career planning and prepares individual development plans to ensure a continual succession plan.

Qualifications and Experience/skills:

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance; MBA preferred but not required
8+ years of financial experience; Extensive knowledge in leading Forecast updates, Budgeting, and Long-Range Strat Plan preferred
Strong understanding and knowledge of financial statements
Experience in manufacturing industry and/or companies with global footprint preferred
Ability to work in a crossfunctional team environment across multiple levels of management
Ability to work in a fastpaced environment and manage well through ambiguity and complexity
Demonstrates exceptional planning, interpersonal and communication skills
Track record of managing and developing a team
Analytical mindset with the ability to challenge senior management and engage and participate in high level business discussions including operational reviews.
Good knowledge in general principles of manufacturing or cost accounting and analysis and willing to take a handson approach as needed.
Expert proficiency and or and knowledge of Oracle ERP and Oracle Finance, OneStream, Coupa, Basware, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Qlik or other business intelligence software would be an advantage.