Accounting and Fp&a - Rainford, United Kingdom - Alkegen

Alkegen

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Rainford, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Alkegen brings together two of the world's leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation and sealing materials.

Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we are delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.

With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry's most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.

Alkegen offers a range of dynamic career opportunities with globe-spanning reach.

From production operators to engineers, technicians to specialists, sales to leadership, we're always looking for top talent ready to bring their best.

Come grow with us

Summary:
The Local Accounting and FP&A Leader has two key roles:

Supervises the company's financial reporting accounting and compliance functions.
Acts as the Finance Partner to the local Operations leader contributing in improving the competitiveness of the facility.

As FP&A function, you will provide key business and financial information to the operations function, manages plant management reporting, financial planning and analysis activities at the site, and ensures linkages to KPIs, working capital measurements, and Procurement.

This position will be responsible for monitoring performance to plan and last year and overseeing a rolling forecast for the site.

In addition, this role will analyse capital investment initiatives for the site using standard financial return metrics and support capacity planning.

Underlying the role is the need to act as a change agent encouraging an environment that employs accountability, collaboration and trust while fostering team work and execution.

This position requires accounting and financial skills, experience in a manufacturing-oriented environment, the ability to summarize detail, simplify complexity, identify relevant issues, and provide management with a meaningful interpretation of the information supplied.

Responsibilities:

Accounting & Transactions:

Ensure accurate recording of transactions as related to sales, inventory, fixed assets, payroll, accruals and all other general accounting entries
Prepare Reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts
Enforce policies and standard operating procedures

Controllership:

Comply with Internal Balance Sheet Review Policies and Internal Audit Process
Provide Information to External Auditors and Advisors to Ensure Transparency
Complete Internal Representation Letter Process for site
Complete/Monitor Account Reconciliations Documents and Open Item Tracking

Financial Reporting:

Provide Corporate any necessary documents in support of external reporting required under local laws, credit agreements.

Sarbanes Oxley:

Document and maintain adequate and effective internal control environment (SOX Compliant)

AR / AP:

Ensure/Support efficient transactions consistent with company policy and vendor / customer terms

Financial Planning & Analysis

Finance partner to the site Operations team:

Contributes to improve competitiveness of our manufacturing through:

Influencing change, generating and confirming opportunities from Ad-hoc analysis, benchmark and trend analysis,
Continuously challenging the team towards being more efficient and save costs
Tracking performance and achievement
Being forward-looking and bringing visibility on future performance
Raising issues in a timely manner and proposing solutions

Analysis of site performance:
Able to clearly communicate a cohesive and concise story on drivers behind financial data and potential implications on future results through:

Implementing the monthly plant reporting package that bridges financial results to prior year and plan
Analyzing the monthly manufacturing variance to Standards and communicate results
Participating in setting up the Company's KPIs (including Operations KPI
utilization, Downtime, Yield, Claims, Safety ) and owning them
Focusing on cost saving and tracking achievement in coordination with the Operations Team (Includes saving from Operations, WCM, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain and SG&A)

Budgeting and forecasting:
Develops and maintains the annual budget, forecasts and financial strategic plans (5 years) that incorporate strategic business objectives and appropriate assumptions for functional areas in scope:

Set up the Operations Budget and rolling Forecast process (animate the process on site and communicate assumptions)
Make sure standard costs are properly calculated

Ad hoc analysis:
Supports the Site Operations Management Team in decision making: