Senior Manager - Finance (Factory)
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About the Role
GMG seeks a Senior Manager – Finance (Factory) to manage end-to-end finance operations at the factory level, ensuring robust financial control, accurate reporting, and operational finance support.
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Responsibilities
- Ensure strict adherence to GMG Group finance policies, internal controls, and governance frameworks at the factory level
- Maintain strong financial discipline across all manufacturing transactions, including inventory, procurement, and production costing
- Lead and support internal and external audits, ensuring timely closure of audit findings
- Safeguard company assets through effective control mechanisms and regular reconciliations
- Oversee end to end factory finance operations, including month end close, journal entries, and balance sheet reconciliations
- Ensure timely, accurate, and insightful financial reporting aligned with Group timelines
- Monitor key financial metrics (cost per unit, yield, wastage, variances) and highlight risks and opportunities
- Drive transparency and accuracy in inventory accounting and valuation
- Partner with factory operations to drive cost optimization initiatives across materials, labor, and overheads
- Analyze production costs, variances, and inefficiencies, providing actionable insights to improve margins
- Track and control factory budgets, ensuring alignment with approved financial plans
- Lead initiatives to improve productivity and reduce waste within the manufacturing process
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related discipline
- 8–12 years of progressive experience in finance roles, with significant exposure to manufacturing or factory environments
- Proven experience managing factory level finance operations
- Experience working in large, structured organizations with strong governance frameworks
- Strong manufacturing finance knowledge (costing, BOM, variances, inventory)
- Financial reporting and month end close expertise
- Cost control, margin analysis, and budgeting/forecasting
- Internal controls, compliance, and audit management
- ERP systems and advanced Excel skills
- Data analysis and business partnering for decision support
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Who we are
- GMG is a global well being company retailing, distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home grown brands across sport, everyday goods, health and beauty, properties and logistics sectors.
Role Summary
- The Senior Manager – Finance (Factory) is responsible for managing end to end finance operations at the factory level, ensuring robust financial control, accurate reporting, and operational finance support to manufacturing operations.
Key Success Drivers
- Financial Control & Compliance: Ensure adherence to policies, maintain financial discipline, lead audits, safeguard assets.
- Factory Financial Operations & Reporting: Oversee month end close, reporting, monitor key metrics, drive inventory accuracy.
- Cost Management & Efficiency: Partner with operations to optimize costs, analyze variances, track budgets, improve productivity.
- Business Partnering with Factory Operations: Lead and develop the factory finance team, allocate work, build capability.
Functional/Technical Competencies
- Strong manufacturing finance knowledge (costing, BOM, variances, inventory)
- Financial reporting & month end close expertise
- Cost control, margin analysis, and budgeting/forecasting
- Internal controls, compliance, and audit management
- ERP systems and advanced Excel skills
- Data analysis and business partnering for decision support
- Working capital and inventory management
Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline.
- Master’s degree is an advantage.
Experience
- 8–12 years of progressive experience in finance roles, with significant exposure to manufacturing or factory environments.
- Proven experience managing factory level finance operations.
- Experience working in large, structured organizations with strong governance frameworks.
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