Finance Business Partner - OSCO

About the role

The Finance Business Partner (FBP) acts as the financial eyes for the site, supporting the CSD and Finance organization. The FBP provides financial insights and analysis that steer the site toward its strategic goals, including the Next Level program, and bridges finance with other business areas so that financial considerations are integrated into decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze and manage financial and business performance, with material variance analysis (absorption loss, scrap, rework, raw material yield)
• Monitor performance against budgets and previous years, and identify risks and opportunities with plant management
• Take part in the financial budget and rolling forecast for the plant
• Provide financial insights on efficiency improvements, cost savings, expansion projects and footprint studies
• Monitor manufacturing costs (energy, maintenance, labor, overheads) and supply chain and logistics KPIs (sales, OTIF)
• Work with the pricing department on product pricing based on cost analysis
• Prepare financial reports on manufacturing and supply chain performance, and help build financial dashboards and KPIs
• Ensure internal controls, accounting standards and regulations are followed, and ensure balance sheet reconciliation and asset counts
• Manage internal and external audits, inventory, spare parts, CAPEX, NRV provision and accounts payable to optimize cash flow
• Prepare capital expenditure requests and advise the Plant Manager and Operations team on decisions
• Contribute to regional and global finance projects, act as an SME and coach and mentor others

Required profile

• Solid experience in project/program management
• Knowledge of lean manufacturing, operational excellence and supply chain partnering, controlling and reporting
• End-to-end supply chain partnering and controlling
• Ability to communicate financial information to non-finance audiences
• Adaptable, resilient and pragmatic, able to work independently and in a team under pressure

Required skills

• SAP, Excel and Power BI
• Familiarity with Industry 4.0 systems such as MES
• Ability to learn advanced analytics and data mining quickly and work with large data sets