South East Asia Carbonates Hub Controller

The Company

Imerys is the world’s leading supplier of mineral-based specialty solutions for the industry with €3.8 billion in revenue and 13,700 employees in 54 countries in 2023. The Group offers high value-added and functional solutions to a wide range of industries and fast-growing markets such as solutions for the energy transition and sustainable construction, as well as natural solutions for consumer goods. Imerys draws on its understanding of applications, technological knowledge, and expertise in material science to deliver solutions which contribute essential properties to customers’ products and their performance. As part of its commitment to responsible development, Imerys promotes environmentally friendly products and processes in addition to supporting its customers in their decarbonization efforts.

The Position

South East Asia Carbonates Hub Controller

Job Summary

Job Summary:

• Provide insightful financial analysis and reporting to support our Carbonates operations in SEA (Malaysia, Vietnam) on serving business objectives, contributing to profit and improving cash flow management
• Key tasks and Responsibilities:
• In charge of analysis of monthly reporting & preparation and explanation of sales and profitability variances for the hub and of financial forecast & budget exercise at site and hub level
• Analyze hub industrial costs & identify risk and opportunities to improve industrial performance
• Monitor & Propose performance improvement on Capex & Inventory management
• Support the Industrial Hub Director and his team on any business matter
• Provide adequate KPI & insights to Industrial Hub Director & his team to drive the business (capex, savings, cost structure etc)
• Provide information on cost structure & inflation to sales team to support customer discussions & profitability improvement and guide pricing strategy
• Prepare regular analysis of profitability by customer / product (profit pool analysis) & propose actions to improve business profitability, in link with PARP controller
• Review and validation of business plan for any investment project related to the hub
• Coordinate with accounting team the standard cost set-up and follow-up
• Support group internal audit on processes & procedure improvements related to industrial topics
• Review & validate balance sheet cleaning topics managed by accounting team
• Review & approval of customer orders, POs, contracts, Capex requests according to MARs levels
• Communicate & explain financial results of the perimeter to finance and non finance communities
  
  

Job Requirement

Key competencies

• Strong attention to detail with ability to draw conclusions & make business recommendations
• Mindset for continuous improvement
• Highly organized with prioritization skills
• Excellent communications skills with all levels in the organization
• Very good Excel or Google suite skills
  
  

Ideal background/ experience

• A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required
• A minimum of 8 years of professional experience for one plant or a perimeter of plants, with experience on industrial controlling
• Previous experience working within in a complex and dynamic organization with regional exposure is a plus
• Fluent in English is a must
  
  

No direct report

Direct Business size: ~50 MEUR per year

Location: Ipoh, Malaysia

Position Type

Full time

and

Permanent

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