Industrial Operations Finance Partner
Date: Aug 28, 2024
Location: Sant Just Desvern, B, ES, 08960
Company: BUNGE
Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for an Industrial Operations Finance Partner. In this role, you will collaborate regionally, working closely with industrial leaders in our Bunge plants and maintain a good partnership with our colleagues from commercial, finance, and operations teams to understand business challenges and needs. We encourage you to challenge the status quo, provide insights and improvements that will benefit the organization, and offer you opportunities to grow.
Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology, and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster, and simpler way.
Main Accountabilities:
1. Work together (“be a partner”) with plant manager and key plant stakeholders to detect potential cost deviation, mitigation plans, or saving opportunities, plus follow up on their execution and results.
2. Ensure correct financial accounting reporting of industrial expenses monthly. Prepare accrual of variable cost to be booked by GL team. Build monthly forecast of plant industrial cost. Production of a monthly package with the analysis of actual expenses versus forecast and Business Plan (BP). Ensure forecast accuracy.
3. Lead the preparation of yearly Business Plan (BP) of plant industrial expenses (Variable, Fixed, and Depreciation). Preparation of monthly reports as well as ad hoc analysis to support plant manager, Industrial Director, and FP&A team.
4. Drive the preparation of new initiatives (minor and major projects) and post-implementation reviews. Support Business Finance Partners in identifying and validating projects resulting in added profit and/or cost savings based on insights from KPI and benchmarking exercises. Ensure proper OPEX vs CAPEX classification.
5. Monthly submission of proper PQSE KPI reporting. Ensure compliance with internal reporting guidelines and support external reporting (US-GAAP). Management, control, and documentation of inventory counts (commodities and spare parts).
6. Work with other plant Industrial Finance Partners to standardize processes amongst the market and value chain. Support automation, process rebuilding, and process/software projects (Tableau, SAP). Participate in regional and global initiatives bringing value added to the finance community.
Minimum Requirements:
1. A degree in Finance, Management, or Business.
2. Up to 2 years previous work experience and international exposure is seen as an advantage.
3. Ease of learning SAP, Tableau, One Stream, PQSE, and Genius tools.
4. Fluency in both English and Spanish is required.
5. Ability to analyze large and complex data and extract simple actionable insights.
6. Knowledgeable about international company procedures and compliance issues, having a global view of the business.
If this description reflects your profile or ambition, we’re looking forward to seeing your application and motivation in English by hitting apply!
In case of questions, please reach out to Aitor Alonso (Talent Acquisition Specialist at aitor.alonso@bunge.com).
Acquisition by agencies is not appreciated; we do not use agencies at this moment for our recruitment.
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