Finance Controller

6 months ago


Newport, United Kingdom Enersys Full time

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**Job Purpose**:
The Finance Controller is accountable for managing plant financial performance, with full analysis and advice on the financial impact of management decisions, forecasting and budgeting, and implementing systems and reporting practices that support best practice governance and control environments.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
Review and manage the plant expense structure. Identify and lead cost savings initiatives through established EnerSys frameworks like MDI and X-Matrix

Review and validate plant monthly financial results in accordance with company rules

Perform month-end closing for related operations and cost transactions. Analyse the cost drivers, prepare monthly variance reports on plan and forecast differences and their causes, on operating level for scrap, material cost and usage, and production efficiencies

Provide analysis and advice to management team on plant financial performance

Lead the preparation, review of the Newport plant annual budget together with management in line with the Company’s strategy and Group reporting principles

Cooperate closely with UK Financial Controller to ensure plant performance is properly reflected in actual results, forecasts and budgets

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:
Establish and maintain systems and controls over inventory and plant fixed assets

Establish and maintain accurate and reliable product costing process in an integrated manufacturing ERP system

Manage, review and correct accordingly Transfer Prices applied by the plant on Interco shipments in line with EnerSys policy

Review production scrap process and identifies scrap reduction initiatives

Manage capital investment projects financial assessment and payback criteria and support implementation of capital projects

Strives to excel at continuous improvement process and manages daily improvements within finance function

Lead, engage, motivate and manage team members to deliver their best and realise their full potential

Contribute as part of the plant management team with team related tasks and goals as needed, including active participation with implementation of EOS related projects

Maintain professional and technical knowledge and current best practice by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; participating in professional societies and business networks

**Skills, Experience, Qualifications**:

- Extensive experience leading and managing professional teams and managing a finance function as Finance Manager/Controller
- Minimum of 5 years’ accounting experience in a heavy industrial manufacturing environment
- Extensive experience of implementation and development of finance systems, controls and processes
- Qualified CIMA (preferred) or ACCA/ACA
- Experience working for a global manufacturing company in a matrix working environment

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