Industrial Hub Controller (Southern Europe)

The Company

The world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, with over 16,000 employees and over 200 sites worldwide, Imerys delivers high value-added, functional solutions to diversified set of industrial sectors, from processing industries to consumer goods. The Group draws on its knowledge of applications, technological expertise and its material science know-how to deliver solutions based on beneficiation of its mineral resources, synthetic minerals and formulations. These contribute essential properties to customers’ products and performance, including refractoriness, hardness, conductivity, opacity, durability, purity, lightness, filtration, absorption and repellency. Imerys is determined to develop responsibly, in particular by fostering the emergence of environmentally-friendly products and processes.

If you want to grow your skills and develop your career, find out more at www.imerys.com

The Position

Job Summary

ROLE

Provide insightful financial analysis and reporting to serve business objectives.
Business Partner to Hub Directors and their team to support decision making process for 7 sites.

RESPONSIBILITY

Business partnering activities

Assist Management team on any business matter, Analyze P&L and FOC, and Perform profitability analysis to identify levers of improvement, risks and opportunities
Contribute to design efficient processes and tools to deliver timely high quality reliable reporting

Controlling Activities

Responsible for financial budgeting and forecasting for Southern Europe
Lead and manage the monthly/quarterly and yearly reporting
Responsible for Hub performance analysis based on operations reporting: CAPEX/OPEX, saving projects, cross functional & purchasing
savings - Review capital expenditure requests.
Responsible for hedging activity (commodity / forex) in EMEA
Coordinate with CAR the standard cost set-up and follow-up
Analyze the Hub SG&A
Monitor and propose performance improvement on OWC
Coordination for HTS BA of purchasing savings with Group Purchasing organization
Project management : Finance lead in key projects (restructuring, Capex, costs optimization, Opera) in Southern Europe, Opera
Metalcasting France : coordination and follow up of finalization of issues on costing, stock valuation, profitability
Contribution to M&A projects (BP, due diligence, integration)
Follow up on internal audit points

ACCOUNTABILITY

Assess, monitor and control risks within the area
Deliver timely, high-quality reliable and appropriate data and analysis to support the effective monitoring of the Industrial activities
Ensure compliance of business operations with company policies and best practices.

PROFILE

Key competencies

Strong analytical, problem solving and attention to detail,
Is practical and drives simple, standard and efficient processes, strong mindset for continuous improvement
Strong Team player
Highly organized with prioritization skills
Demonstrate excellence in business analytics and tolls
Knowledge of SAP, Magnitude, Analytics, MS office / Google Suite applications and BI skills (advanced)
Excellent communications skills.
Fluent English skills, french beneficial

Ideal background/ experience

A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required.
A minimum of 5 -10 years of professional experience with financial/accounting experience is preferred.
Experience working with reporting in a complex and dynamic organization and with the industrial environment.

Position Type

Full time

and

Permanent

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