Production Unit Financial Controller – Completed Assignment**

**FP&A have successfully sourced a candidate for this position. If you are interested in similar positions in the future, please give me a call on 09495 57033 or email me at edelvahey@fpna.ie for an exploratory conversation.

Overview:
This Production Unit (PU) Financial Controller job in Galway is with a highly impressive, manufacturing plant in a best-practice, lean six sigma, global environment. You will become part of the PU Senior Management team to support and appraise the commercial and strategic direction of the production unit.

The opportunity in this Production Unit Financial Controller job in Galway:
As the PU Financial Controller, you will be given a highly visible job and become an integral part of Senior Management Team of the Galway plant – a plant which manufactures 3 of the company’s Top 5 products globally, thus has significant impact on global revenue and influence on global business decisions.
Playing a key role in the strategic and commercial direction of the Production Unit, you will be looked to by top management as the accounting/finance expert and will be the internal business & financial consultant for the Production Unit (PU) Managers in Engineering, Production and Quality.

Your new job:
A hands-on PU Financial Controller, you will have direct impact on increasing revenue, growing margins and reducing costs for your production unit. You will support and drive PU performance improvements (both financial and operational) by understanding the KPIs of the production unit and connecting the PU performance to the overall gross profit & EBITDA performance of both the Galway plant and global operation.
Through financial and operational metrics and analysis, you will identify and lead cost reduction initiates, including creating effective product cost models and managing the standard costing process. You will business partner with PU Management and Plant Executive teams to complete scenario analysis of both commercial and strategic decisions, as well as investment appraisals including CAPEX & OPEX spend review and management for your PU. You will increase efficiencies in processes, procedures and internal controls in your PU, supporting multiple functions including sales, orders, costs, safety, quality, delivery and working capital efforts of the BU.
As a management accounting expert in the Finance Department, you will support the FP&A Senior Manager and the Finance Director with annual budgeting, forecasting, long term planning, variance analysis and month-end management accounting related activities.
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 reward:
As well as joining a team of top performing, highly-qualified and extremely capable CIMA, ACCA and ACA Accountants, in a best practice, continuous improvement environment, you will be rewarded with a competitive package worth approx. €85-90K which includes an attractive base salary, car allowance, performance related bonus of 15% or more, pension (up to 8%), full health insurance for you and your family, share option scheme and other benefits typically associated with a management level position in a multinational organisation. Through the annual career review process, you will be offered genuine and exciting career development opportunities with this established and highly successful global company.

What you’ll need to succeed:
To be successful in this Finance Leader job, you will call upon your management accounting, cost accounting and financial control and/or business partnering experience (approx. 5-10 years PQE) in a manufacturing plant, some of which will ideally come from an international organisation. You will be a qualified accountant 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.

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.

*FP&A have recently placed a Business (Production) Unit Financial Controller with this company, but due to an internal promotion, another Financial Controller job opportunity has arisen with the same client.