Finance Leader, Manufacturing

The opportunity of this Manufacturing Finance Lead job in Galway:

If you consider yourself an ambitious and competent Plant Finance Manager / Site Financial Controller / Associate Director (ACA, ACCA, CIMA qualified) looking for your next challenge in the global manufacturing world, I’d love to talk to you about this job.

Based in Galway on a hybrid basis, this Finance Leader job offers you influence, impact and reward, as you lead operational decisions and strategic direction for 4 manufacturing plants with c1500 staff, in a world-class organisation.

Becoming part of the Manufacturing Units’ Leadership team, you will partner with the Managers of Engineering, Production and Quality to drive performance across the four factories, ensure site-wide and global manufacturing performance targets are achieved.

Your job as Manufacturing Finance Lead:

As a hands-on finance business partner to the 4 manufacturing units (MU), you will:

– have direct impact on increasing performance, growing margins and reducing costs for your MUs

– support and drive MU performance improvements (both financial and operational) by understanding the products, manufacturing processes, KPIs and financial performance of your MUs and identifying focus areas

– lead the annual budgeting, forecasting, long term planning, variance analysis and month-end management accounting related activities for your MU

– interact with external 3rd party suppliers and internal manufacturing sites globally to provide inter-site connection between them and the Galway’s finished goods plant.

– identify and lead cost reduction initiates, including creating effective product cost models and managing the standard costing process

– business partner with Senior and Executive management teams to complete scenario analysis of both operational and strategic decisions, as well as investment appraisals including CAPEX \& OPEX spend review, and appraisal of costs of integrating new business to the Galway site

– increase efficiencies in processes, procedures and internal controls (corporate, SOX, GAAP), ensuring accurate analysis of headcount, production, expenses, O/H spend, direct labour, scrap and capital in your MU.

And as the Finance Representative on numerous cross-functional project teams, you will identify, lead or participate in continuous improvement initiatives, both within finance and across the business.

Your New Company \& Team:

This company is a global leader in its industry, experiencing significant increase in world-wide revenue in recent years. An integral part of the global organisation, the Galway site has significant impact on global revenue and influence on global business decisions.

As a high-achieving finance professional, you will be joining a team of 25 like-minded, top-performing qualified accountants and managers, all of which have proven track records of achieving in highly successful, blue chip organisations.

What you’ll need to succeed:

To be successful in this Finance Leader job, you will call upon your Costing, FP\&A and Business Partnering expertise in global manufacturing (circa 10+ years PQE). You will be a Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with excellent analytical skills and an innate ability to influence various stakeholders at all levels and functions, as you drive continuous improvement in a multi-discipline global environment

Your reward:

As well as highly visible, diverse and technically challenging job, you will be rewarded with a competitive package of approx. €100,000-120,000 which includes an attractive base salary, a performance related bonus, a car allowance, full healthcare insurance for you and your family and pension contributions (up to 8%), share option scheme and other benefits typically associated with a senior position in a multinational organisation.

Outside your package, you will also be offered hybrid working (2 days WFH), flexi-time, early finish Friday, annual salary \& performance reviews and, most importantly, a clear career-development path to allow you to excel rapidly in your future career.

What you need to do next:

To investigate this amazing opportunity further, please send your CV or call Edel Vahey in confidence for an exploratory conversation on +353 9495 57033.