Senior Controller Operations

Job Overview:

This role is the regional financial leader responsible ensuring financial commitments, compliance, and team development for a grouping of Adient plants.

Job Responsibilities:

• Ensures team is properly managing their Profit Plan and Outlook processes. Must review and ensure accuracy and limited variance.
• Conducts regular balance sheet reviews to ensure accuracy.
• Guarantees team is completing all Month End processes timely and accurately.
• Readily available to provide guidance and support to Plant Controllers and Plant Manager as needed.
• Responsible for improving the P&Ls for a specific grouping of plants. Identifies and supports cost improvements and program profitability activities.
• Maintains a robust internal control environment aligned to the company Business Operating System and Sarbanes Oxley requirements.
• Supervises and leads a team of plant controllers across north America. Responsible for ensuring team is properly trained, staffed, and supports in professional development activities.
• Ensures plants are supporting all compliance, internal and external audit activities.
• Reviews all Capital Appropriation Requests including financial justification in accordance with company guidelines for assigned plants.
• Partner with the Commercial team on Pricing and Commercial issues and strategies.
• Leads Plants through implementation of new finance and accounting processes and procedures.
• Perform additional related duties and analyses as requested.
• Consolidation reporting for grouping of plants.
• Partner and provide support to Ops Directors.
• Partner with the Commercial team on Pricing and Commercial issues and strategies.
• Monitor BBP to ensure gap closure targets are met.
• Launch costs and Capital spending control.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
• 10+ years of finance and accounting background in a manufacturing environment. Automotive experience is a preferred.
• Previous plant controller experience or experience supporting multiple plants is a preferred.
• Ability to step in as a substitute plant controller when required.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data and communicate findings by verbal or presentation format.
• Strong organization skills with follow-through and a focus on “the details”
• A history of success working toward deadlines, multi-tasking and operating in an environment with shifting priorities
• The ability to build partnerships with cross functional team
• Exceptional skills with Excel and other Microsoft Office tools.
• Experience with financial systems required. MFGPro/SAP/Hyperion applications preferred.
• Ability to manage complex or ambiguous situations.
• This role is required to travel 25-50% of the time based on business needs.

We offer you:

• Base gross monthly salary starting from 4000 EUR. Our salary is fair and competitive and can be higher than the starting minimum written in the advert
• 13th salary
• Hybrid workplace principles from 0-5 days a week option working remotely
• Language courses
• Meal vouchers (fully paid by employer)
• Flexible working time, home offices, extra holiday entitlement
• Wedding allowance, childbirth allowance, jubilee allowance, housing allowance
• Referral bonus
• Health, safety and ergonomics events, training sessions
• Active life with colleagues full of various sports activities (swimming, yoga, tennis, volleyball etc.)
• Massage at workplace, modern relax areas and game room
• Coffee/Tea on the workplace


Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Isabell Grabowski on +49 2174 65-1877.