Your Scope

We are looking for a Manufacturing Controller to take the lead in the financial budgeting & controlling for several plants. You will report into the Manufacturing Director and you will work closely with regional management (e.g. plant directors). This position requires ownership and initiative, so to create a direct impact on the further development of our organization. You will have contacts with diverse stakeholders within the firm (Finance, Sales, Supply Chain, corporate & local management, etc.)

You will work from our head office in Ardooie.

Your key focus areas are the following:

• Responsible for all closings, supervising & challenging the financial budgets, KPI reporting in a uniform way over half of our plants;
• Business partnering with plants and sales in order to give correct insights & support the push for continuous improvement;
• Contribute to the strategic financial decisions of plants within your portfolio and coordinate the developments of financial plans (e.g. CAPEX projects) to ensure that our strategic goals can be realized;
• Advise line management regarding short- and long-term budgeting to ensure that management has sufficient information to take decisions;
• Draw up, check and follow up financial reporting procedures in order to guarantee high quality reports at all times and that we meet the applicable criteria in terms of service, quality and processing time.
• Lead a team of minimum 4 plant controllers. Coach and work on the development of your employees to ensure their competencies, skills and know-how are used and developed to the best advantage and to work as a well-functioning department.
• Act as a project team member to actively support the development of new systems and continuous improvement projects such as new reportings in SAP, costing manuals, energy efficiency improvement etc., to ensure that the best possible implementation can be guaranteed.