Mondelez - Finance Controller

PLANT FINANCE CONTROLLER - MALANPUR

Malanpur plant is Situated in close proximity to the historic city of Gwalior, "Here's your chance to join our dynamic team as an Plant Finance Controller at one of fastest-growing and agile plants in the AMEA region. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!"

Job Description:

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondel- z International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Uniquely Yours.

- You will partner to plant management and manage the overall financial integrity and performance of a manufacturing site.

- You will support the Plant Leadership team in preparing and executing business proposals, verifying assumptions, and checking for daily execution.

- You will manage finance for a complex plant cluster, hub or large manufacturing plant.

- This position will be responsible for completing activities applicable to product costing, capital budget preparation, operational variance analysis, annual operating plan development, internal compliance and control reviews and cost improvement analysis.

- Development of long-term manufacturing plans for the site and identifying value optimization opportunities is a key deliverable.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Driving cost review process to ensure adherence to annual budgets

- Managing the cost efficiency program of the unit with periodic review of site performance on key financial & operational indices and developing a cost roadmap with the factory leadership.

- Maintaining accounting process and system hygiene with adherence to SOP's

- Drive working capital management in factory

- Trial balance and Schedule review to drive balance sheet hygiene and efficiency

- Maintain costing systems and support new product costing

- Driving effective risk management at the site with robust finance processes including SOX controls

- Interaction with auditors (Statutory, Internal, Sox) with overall responsibility for the financial controls at the unit

- Ensuring that the records/returns required under various commercial laws are kept/submitted properly and up-to-date, and also ensuring that various commercial laws are complied with.

- Working with the legal and central taxation team on handling tax issues.

- Preparation of capital budgets for the unit. Evaluation of financial viability of capital investments. Monitoring and controlling the capital spends and driving capital stewardship

- Drive process improvement through benchmarking within and outside the organization

- Contributing to ISC initiatives such as IL6S, HPWS and other plant specific agenda, as part of plant leadership team.

- People development, including embedding of high performance work systems culture, implementation of rigorous performance appraisal (KRA), closure of PDP process and training system for subordinates

- Manage finance planning and performance management processes and related financial decisions potentially including strategic plan and annual contract planning/forecasting, target development, financial performance reporting/analysis, financial modeling and decision support for a manufacturing plant, plant cluster or hub.

- Support a strong controls and compliance environment in the manufacturing plant. You will also ensure that policies are understood in the organization and that proper controls and compliance are in place.

- Partner with plant management to provide critical financial perspective and insight for business strategies and decisions. You will also monitor and adjust execution of actions.

- Drive for harmonization, efficiencies and improvements to ways of working and build a mindset of continuous improvement within the Finance team.

- Build a high-performing Finance team. You will also recruit and develop Finance talent and drive our Finance talent agenda with a focus on Supply Chain/plant controlling.

What you will bring:

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

- TECHNICAL EXPERTISE in financial planning and performance management including analyzing, planning and reporting company financial performance across all financial KPIs and strategy development, investment decisions and cost management to achieve financial targets.

- BUSINESS ACUMEN and understanding of our business, consumer packaged goods industry, and snacking market including Supply Chain/manufacturing dynamics. Relevant experience in a large regional (or global) corporation.

- LEADERSHIP SKILLS including proven business partnering, influencing and communication skills across a large regional or global, public company; experience working as a finance leader managing cross-functional and business partner teams to make decisions and drive results.

- GROWTH/DIGITAL MINDSET and ability to identify opportunities and leverage technology to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

- INTEGRITY and sound judgement in all decisions and interactions aligned with our values and policies and external regulations.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

(a) Internal: Internal Factory finance team, HO Finance Managers, Tax Team, Internal Auditors

(b) External: Auditors (Statutory, Internal, Sox), Tax authorities, Other statutory bodies such as PF inspectors etc.