You will develop strategies to enhance efficiency and reduce costs. This role involves analyzing production metrics, optimizing budgets, and managing inventory to improve overall financial performance.
Anforderungen
- •Degree in business administration
- •Several years of professional experience
- •Independent, goal-oriented working style
- •Precise working methods and assertiveness
- •Very good MS Office skills
- •Good knowledge of SAP R/3
- •Good written and spoken English skills
Deine Aufgaben
- •Develop and implement controlling strategies.
- •Analyze production key performance indicators.
- •Provide recommendations in collaboration with departments.
- •Optimize plant contribution margin and product cost accounting.
- •Prepare and monitor cost center budgets.
- •Conduct variance analyses to optimize costs.
- •Monitor and analyze inventory levels.
Original Beschreibung
We, at Leggett & Platt Inc., are searching for a Controller within our Finance team to help support our Hydraulics business at our Pacoma branch in Eschwege, Germany. Pacoma is one of the world's leading suppliers of hydraulic cylinders. Our cylinders are extensively used in the construction machinery industry, the automobile industry, and in engineering applications as well as in logistics and material handling. Furthermore our cylinders can also be used in agricultural and maritime applications etc. Pacoma stands out with its individual designs, its consistently superior global quality and its high-capacity production facilities. Our factory in Eschwege, Germany, can singularly handle a quarter million units per year working at normal capacity. With the opening of a dynamic modern facility in China in 2011, Pacoma is even better positioned to serve its customers with high output and convenient logistics. Our success is the product of decades of experience. Over the course of more than 40 years, we have developed, designed and produced hydraulic cylinders of nearly every possible type. Our aim of developing and maintaining long-term relationships with our customers means that you can rely on our comprehensive technical expertise and top quality innovative products. We operate to serve our customers bearing in mind always our slogan: „New thinking with tradition”.
Your responsibilities include:
* Development and implementation of holistic controlling strategies to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and sustainably improve production processes.
* Detailed analysis and interpretation of production key performance indicators, developing well-founded recommendations for action in close cooperation with the relevant departments.
* Optimization of plant contribution margin accounting, product cost accounting, and product profitability.
* Preparation and monitoring of cost center budgets and conducting variance analyses to optimize the cost structure.
* Monitoring and analyzing inventory levels to ensure efficient warehousing and minimize excess inventory.
To be successful in this role, you must have:
* Completed a degree in business administration with a focus on controlling or finance or a comparable qualification.
* Several years of relevant professional experience in production controlling/plant controlling in a manufacturing company.
* Independent, goal- and results-oriented working style combined with strong organizational and analytical skills.
* Precise working methods, assertiveness, and the ability to work under pressure
* Very good MS Office skills (especially Excel and PowerPoint), Tableau
* Good knowledge of SAP R/3
* Good written and spoken English skills
**Our Values**
Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.
* Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
* Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
* Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
* Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.
**Our Commitment to You**
We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture is inclusive and that our processes and practices promote equity for all. Leggett & Platt is comprised of people of all abilities, gender identities and expressions, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, veteran status, and more. Join us!
We welcome and encourage applications if you meet the minimum qualifications. Even if you do not meet the preferred qualifications, we’d love the opportunity to consider you.
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