Group Operations Financial Performance Manager

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Aliaxis is a world-leading manufacturer of advanced piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

To reinforce our Global Operations Finance department, we are looking for a Group Operations Financial Performance Managerwho will design and globally roll-out a harmonized manufacturing and supply chain financial performance management frame to monitor the progress against our five-year operations excellence saving program. In this view, the job holder will define the right metrics, tools and processes to gather, consolidate, review, reconcile and challenge the financial results.

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This role is based in our Global HQ (1050 Brussels).

Reporting into the Group VP Finance Operations, you will handle the followingresponsibilities:

Design

• In close cooperation with the local and regional teams, determine the key metrics and process to gather, review and monitor the financial results in manufacturing, supply chain and procurement areas.
• Define the standards for the savings P&L impact recognition for manufacturing, supply chain and procurement cost improvement programs (eg : COGS walk).
• Advise and support harmonization efforts on KPI definition and costing methodology
• Coordinate the roll-out of the operations financial performance governance structure defined above on a global level
• Perform the monthly and year-to-date monitoring of the key operational results including variance analysis vs budget/forecast/prior year and volume/mix/cost analysis. Constructively challenge results.

Implement and monitor:

• Perform/review the reconciliation between the operations & procurement results vs the reported P&L in order to sign-off the realized savings. Identify risks and opportunities.
• Consolidate the monthly results and prepare reporting at group level for varying audiences and governance structures (eg : Operations Leadership, Excom, Board).
• Monitor plans and realizations against strategic plan ambition (1-2x/year)

Improve:

• Define continuous improvement roadmap to centralize and automate reporting for operations performance into a single platform (eg : PowerBI). Drive implementation.
• Provide insights for internal and external benchmarking on relevant measures in order to challenge performance.
• Support different types of ad hoc initiatives like capex requests, capacity planning modelling, strategic planning simulations, ...

Global ERP implementation:

• Act as sparring partner in the ERP roll-out by providing expert input for manufacturing & supply chain master data, costing and reporting set-up in SAP

Profile:

• University degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering or another relevant domain.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in an international plant controlling or manufacturing financial function including ability to bring best practices in terms of manufacturing & supply chain related financial reporting, variance analysis and savings tracking
• Tools literacy (non-exhaustive) : SAP, data warehousing, BI/Power, BI tools and Cognos TM1 or other similar reporting tools

Functional competencies:

• Ability and willingness to be hands-on while not losing sight of the bigger picture/overall objective.
• Ability to plan & organize his/her work and the work of others with clear and structured planning and processes.
• Ability and willingness to navigate through complex and immature systems, reporting tools and organizations
• Capacity to translate financial and business indicators into crisp messages with actionable/meaningful information
• Ability to build constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners across Aliaxis
• Ability to act as change agent through good listening and influencing skills across a broad range of stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate in a structured and concise way, both in writing or orally

Benefits:

We offer a unique opportunity to join a Belgian global company with a very international & collaborative culture that is transforming dynamically and is committed to its future growth, service excellence and employee engagement. Next to a competitive salary and benefits package, we offer an impactful role and real growth opportunities.

Aliaxis and its subsidiaries encourage diversity and inclusion in the workplace; we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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