Factory/ Plant Controller - Controlling Practice & Operations

Key Responsibilities

• Perform analysis of business performance versus budget and forecast.
• Review of Orders received, and Orders received Gross Margin and monthly reporting.
• Reconciliation of Order backlog and Order backlog Gross Margin.
• Business partnering with Local Factory/Business/Hub Controllers to understand and analyze the drivers of financial performance and identify trends; propose value add.
• Analysis of overhead under / over absorption indicating root cause.
• Result Analysis – Revenue Recognition – Good understanding of Revenue recognition principles and industry practices; Point in time and Over period of time. Good understanding of RA keys logic in S4 HANA.
• Hands-on experience in COPA - KE24/KE30 - Product wise and Customer-wise Profitability Analysis.
• Review the monthly financial performance in the Income Statement against Budgets/Forecast and support in monthly reviews before month closing.
• Balance sheet analysis – proactively identify the movements between different periods with the reasons of deviation and advise controllers for necessary action.
• Perform monthly MIS/Corporate Reporting as per the Corporate calendar.
• Perform activities related to Internal controls and SOX audit
• Comparison of monthly/quarterly MIS data with different benchmarks and giving comments/remarks
• Capital Expenditure budget and actual spent tracking and analysis on monthly basis
• Analysis of inventories, NWC (Net Working Capital) – comparison over periods with reasons of movement.
• Knowledge in Standard costing - Made To Order/ Made To Stock Scenario
• Cashflow – Analysis of Cash In and Cash Out Direct Method and Indirect method – Gap analysis between.
• Support preparation of relevant organization financial reporting, business planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Support for Statutory audit and internal audit - Preparation of audit schedules.
• Validate accuracy of financial data and business information and reports by performing reconciliation and review of exceptions