Plant Finance Manager - FMCG

- Standard Costing: To ensure costing principles are intact and as per company guidelines

- Variance analysis : To conduct variance analyses (volume, price & cost) & provide business insights for improving net savings and controlling costs

- Plant controlling - To ensure control processes are updated, calibrated & implemented

- Taxes - To ensure local tax compliances are met and other statutory compliances are in place.

- Inventory & Asset Management - Valuation, physical count, NPV/Payback analysis, inventory level & future use ability, Asset utilization

- Books closure - Monthly & yearly closing activities, statutory audit, internal audit & other audits

- Ensure direct cost is monitored for price and consumption and in line with forecast

- Overheads are budgeted, monitored, reviewed & controlled

- Agreed savings projects are monitored & reviewed with stakeholders to ensure overall savings targets are met

- New savings ideas are validated, evaluated, assessed for risks, aligned & followed up for the implementation

- Capex projects are evaluated with the high level data accuracy & high quality analysis (NPV/IRR & Payback)

- Collaborate with finance team to analyze monthly variances for direct material, direct labour and manufacturing overhead per project

- Ensuring various company policies (Eg: Finance control frame work (FCF), Anti-bribery and corruption polices & other guidelines) are in place for all critical plant processes

- Establish effective control on inventory through routine physical counts; drive RCA for variances, matching physical and books stocks, minimize slow and non-moving volume

- Fixed assets are tagged, physically verified, put into best use and depreciated as appropriate and aligned

- Other critical controls (Eg: cash spending, ERP access control) are clearly defined and implemented

- Responsible for product costing which would involve product understating and process understanding.

- Own accurate financial transaction recorded in ERP, monthly reports are generated, scrutinized & reported.

- Plant MIS are prepared, analyzed, agreed with manufacturing leaders, action plans are aligned thus to ensure overall plant costs are within the target

- Lead plant team to manage statutory audits, internal audits & any other scrutiny and inspection by stakeholders

- Coach / mentor plant finance team to deliver high-quality performances and meet their career objectives

- Lead finance resource allocation to achieve the best possible support to plant management team in day to day activities and projects

- Develop a skilled and sustainable organization delivering high quality results