Operations Finance Lead

Imagine this. You are building the financial backbone behind a fast-scaling, multi-site manufacturing organization. As our Operations Finance Lead, you will take ownership of how we understand manufacturing costs, margins, inventory and operational performance across the group. This is not a role where you simply inherit established processes. You will build, standardize and improve them, creating the financial discipline and visibility needed to scale our operations.

You will lead operations controlling, cost accounting and FP&A across manufacturing and supply chain, while partnering closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering and Finance leadership. From product costing and inventory economics to forecasting, MES implementation and site performance, you will connect what happens on the factory floor with the numbers driving business decisions.

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• Own operations cost accounting across multiple manufacturing sites, including inventory accounting, cost of goods produced and sold, capitalization of labor and manufacturing overhead, and manufacturing-related month-end close activities
• Take ownership of inventory economics, including variance capitalization, COGS release, excess and obsolete inventory and slow-moving stock exposure
• Ensure manufacturing and inventory accounting is consistent across sites and legal entities and aligned with group accounting policies, IFRS and applicable local GAAP requirements
• Own and continuously improve the product costing framework across products and sites, including BOMs, routings, labor and overhead rates
• Drive cost and margin performance through variance analysis across purchase price, usage, mix, yield, labor efficiency and overhead absorption, identifying root causes and translating them into clear actions
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to understand and optimize key cost drivers across materials, conversion, productivity, capacity and waste
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning for manufacturing and supply chain, connecting volumes, pricing, efficiency, capacity, headcount and capex assumptions to financial outcomes
• Build rolling forecasts and analyze monthly performance, creating a clear bridge between operational results, margins, working capital and the P&L
• Own operational KPIs with financial impact, including OTIF, yield, efficiency, days on hand and forecast accuracy
• Build practical management reporting and dashboards that give operations and executive leadership clear visibility into cost, margin, inventory and working capital performance
• Turn complex operational and financial data into actionable insights that support decisions around sourcing, pricing, investment and capacity
• Design and standardize finance processes across sites for costing, forecasting, month-end close and reporting, replacing fragmented practices with scalable group-wide frameworks
• Support MES implementation and ensure reliable manufacturing data flows into financial systems, working closely with Operations and IT to strengthen standard costing, inventory valuation, cost centers and BOM structures
• Establish strong internal controls over inventory, cost accounting and manufacturing transactions, maintaining clear segregation of duties and audit-ready documentation
• Define and roll out group-wide operations finance policies, templates and reporting calendars to create consistency across sites and legal entities
• Lead and coordinate operations finance across multiple manufacturing locations, developing site controllers and cost accountants while building a strong and consistent finance capability across the group
• Act as a trusted finance partner to Operations, Supply Chain and Engineering leadership, balancing the realities of individual sites with the financial discipline required at group level
• Support external audits, lender and investor processes and relevant multi-jurisdiction compliance requirements