Factory Controller

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA•Modesto, CA

23h•$130,000 - $160,000

About The Position

As the Factory Controller, you will serve as the trusted financial advisor and strategic partner to the Factory Manager and Factory Leadership Team, while maintaining direct collaboration with the Operations Controller. You will be responsible for providing financial stewardship, governance, and oversight for all aspects of the factory's financial performance. You will lead financial planning, analysis, reporting, and compliance activities, ensuring sound decision-making through accurate, fact-based insights. By monitoring budgets, analyzing variances, and forecasting costs associated with factory operations, you will provide visibility into performance and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and profitability. In this role, you will support both short-term operational objectives and long-term strategic initiatives, helping drive sustainable business results. You will also ensure compliance with financial policies, controls, and legal requirements while fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement across the facility.

Requirements

Skilled in managing diverse P&Ls.
Demonstrated critical thinking and analytical problem solving skills.
Superior execution skills in a changing environment and ability to multi-task.
Good with numbers and data, but critically important to be able to deliver the message to non-finance professionals.
Proven ability to not only deliver, but drive excellent work in a team and matrix organization.
Proven analytical thinking and seeing the big picture.
Proven ability to quickly learn and drive new concepts and processes.
Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Good knowledge of the business environment/competition/capacity to benchmark.
Good working knowledge of product portfolio and brand profitability.
Proven knowledge of financial concepts including cost accounting, activity based costing, cash flow, NPV, IRR, ROI, etc.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
Minimum 5 years experience in financial operations, with a solid accounting background.
Experience within a network organization (internal and external providers).
Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry experience.

Responsibilities

Through their team, identify, drive and deliver cost improvement opportunities, be an active contributor to improvement projects and initiatives, validate, review and track proposed savings.
Challenge assumptions for cost improvements in factory based on internal and external benchmark information on factory performance and costs.
Actively drive NCE activities within the factory and ensure activities are in alignment with business OMP ( Operational Master Plan).
Manage and interpret factory reporting of actuals and forecasts for the factory and key outside stakeholders; ensure transparency, accuracy and timeliness of this process; follow up and monitoring of progress to close gaps, ensuring Nestle financial policies, Accounting Standards and Costing Standards are followed by promoting ownership of data at source.
Identify and lead strategic financial analysis relating to major or strategic decisions related to the factory to ensure full transparency of costs and non-financial implications.
Drive business planning.
Manage the overall factory budget with factory management team as well as being the critical liaison between factory and Head Office in the business planning process.
Perform forecasts, revisions to simulations if needed.
Develop, control and ensure robust evaluations of capital investment plans and requests including post CAPEX evaluations.
Coach and develop the factory personnel with focus on finance individuals & team including career and succession planning.
Ensure factory finance personnel are meeting/exceeding performance expectations.
Drive clear understanding of financial key figures, costing and business impact within and outside the factory, including organizing training sessions for non-specialists.
Manage routine audit activities within the factory to ensure compliance on critical areas eg) NAS, Costing Standards, statutory accounting/tax, OPEX guideline and appropriately escalate business risks.
As the Champion of compliance & risk management for the site is the key contact for internal and external audits within the factory.
Ensure clear control and visibility of assets and liabilities, including the development, implementation and compliance with internal controls in all areas.
Accountable for Segregation of Duties (SODs) and assessment of compensating control effectiveness. This includes establishing a solid and periodic monitoring of the internal controls effectiveness and appropriately escalating business risks.