Our client is a large, diversified private listed business with an inimitable reputation across Australia. They are a dominant manufacturing leader that fosters and facilitates a high performance culture. They are able to attract and retain the best candidates in the market and offer unparalleled career opportunities.
As a Senior Manufacturing Finance specialist you will be a trusted advisor to Operations, leveraging best practice in cost and inventory management, controls and governance to drive an increase in shareholder value.
- Provide the commercial link between Manufacturing / Operations and the various Finance functions.
- Ensure comprehensive understanding of the site operations, including customers, products, key cost drivers and technologies
- Establish and update product costing based on key business inputs
- Participate in new product development planning in collaboration with multiple stakeholders
- Support the business to establish efficient processes to maintain master data (e.g. BOMs, routes, item master data)
- Undertake complex cost modelling to support equipment and site optimisation (plant of best fit) analysis
- Lead the calculation and analysis of cost-related benefits to support proposals for major capital expenditure projects
- Collate business inputs to prepare cost budgets and forecasts, collaborating closely with key business stakeholders, the FP&A CoE and the Finance Business Partners
- Identify cost risks and opportunities
- Perform regular review of site P&Ls and Balance Sheets with regards to key items such as stocks, price movements, fixed assets transactions etc
- Perform key month end checks and analysis of unusual or unexpected items. Align with Finance Business Partners and Business Stakeholders for judgement-based decisions and accounting treatments
- 10+ years experience in a management accounting or cost accounting role in a manufacturing environment
- Understanding and experience with manufacturing standard costing practices such as cost allocation methods and cost sensitivity analysis in an SAP environment
- Understand the implications business and accounting decisions have on one another
- Experience partnering with cross functional stakeholder to identify opportunities, draw insights, develop solutions and deliver results
- High level of analytical and problem-solving skills, leveraging analytical capability to influence business stakeholders to more effectively manage costs, risks, revenues and profit
- CPA/CA qualification
