controller Luton, East of England, England
Job description
Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminium packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!
Purpose of the position:
Own and manage the central Financial planning, analysis and reporting process for Operations across the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, inclusive of 26 manufacturing sites across 18 countries and amounting to a cost base for approximately €800m.
Working collaboratively with finance and non-finance stakeholders from the local management teams to help execute and influence the strategic financial targets for Operations with a strong focus for year on year cost improvement. Challenging assumptions as well as providing the necessary support and guidance to drive data integrity for the Operations Finance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage annual budget and quarterly forecast process for all manufacturing plants across the region. Support and guide financial controllers from all locations and complete a full consolidated and comprehensive review for the region.
- Lead the monthly consolidation and detailed review of regional manufacturing P&L. Interpret, challenge and influence monthly reporting from local plant controllers to ensure a comprehensive and accurate view of financial performance for senior stakeholder groups.
- Contribute to the presentation and discussion of operations financial performance with Senior operations and finance leadership teams.
- Own and maintain operational cost and KPI reporting for the region. Interpret and challenge data by exercising acquired business knowledge. Helping to embed cost ownership across all plant management teams and drive year on year cost improvements.
- Track plant cost saving performance against targets and manage consolidated reporting for the region. Working collaboratively with the regional continuous improvement teams within Operations to ensure accurate interpretation of financial data and provide key insights to help prioritise efforts towards cost saving initiatives.
- Track and provide financial governance for tracking cost savings from metal reduction programs across all manufacturing plants. Working cross functionally with key stakeholder groups within global engineering and commercial teams.
- Drive consistency of reporting across operations finance. Collaborating and influencing plant controllers across all plants. Interacting with Global Finance to strive towards companywide best practices.
- Interpret and be able to communicate the underlying financial strategy and targets for operations and to be able to provide guidance and stewardship as part of the central operations finance controlling function.
Knowledge and experience required:
- Minimum 3 years FP&A experience within multi-national business
- SAP R3 and Essbase knowledge
- Responsibility of managing elements of an FP&A process e.g. month end and forecasts
- Interacting and influencing stakeholders across a range of regions and cultures
- Working to deadlines & attention to detail
- Strong and effective communicator
- Team oriented & stakeholder focused
Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation.
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 22,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminium cans, cups, and aerosol bottles, to aerospace solutions that enable our customers to have a deeper understanding of our planet and the universe.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging. Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
No agencies please.
