Plant Controller at Veolia North America in Minnetonka, Minnesota

Job Description:

Company Description

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design, supply, and service a range of water systems and monitoring equipment in industries ranging from pharmaceutical to food and beverage applications, and from microelectronics ultrapure water to municipal water and industrial wastewater treatment.

Job Description

As a Manufacturing Plant Controller with Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions, you will be able to leverage your background in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and extensive experience in costing and production analysis. This role requires a strategic thinker with exceptional analytical skills to oversee the financial operations of our manufacturing operations. You'll use your expertise in FP&A to develop and implement robust financial plans, budgets, and forecasts, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. This is an opportunity to play a pivotal role in cost management, conducting in-depth analyses of production costs, identifying opportunities for optimization, and promoting cost-saving initiatives.
Reporting directly to the Finance Director, you will lead members to prepare and review of financial plans, forecasts and results. Critical thinking ability of connecting issues to help develop sustainable solutions is required. You will need to be comfortable working independently, be well versed in financial systems (SAP) and be able to build effective working relationships with manufacturing team and other business partners to be well prepared for this dynamic role.

Key Responsibilities:
● Lead the finance aspect of labor productivity, material efficiency, capacity optimization
based on the standard cost goal.
● Suppress off standard costs by identifying the root causes and work with operations to
eliminate the extra costs.
● Lead plant actual closing, budgeting and forecasting cycles and provide related analysis for management review. Find and manage risks and opportunities to drive profitable sales
growth and productivity.
● Manage the plant SGA and Cost of sales budgets and manage teams providing periodic
reporting to department owners. Analyze and drive inventory to meet the budget.

Qualifications

● Bachelor's Degree in accounting or finance.
● 8-12 years of experience; good cost accounting, cost-benefit analysis, and end-to-end financial analysis.
● Advanced Skills in Google Suite (Preferred) and SAP
● Good knowledge of internal controls and US GAAP accounting.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

As an inclusive company, Veolia is committed to diversity and gives equal consideration to all applications, without discrimination.