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Plant Controller

ACCA Careers
Budd Lake, NJ Full Time
POSTED ON 2/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/20/2025
Givaudan is the global leader in the creation of flavours and fragrances. In close collaboration with food, beverage, consumer product and fragrance partners, Givaudan develops tastes and scents that delight consumers the world over. With a passion to understand consumers’ preferences and a relentless drive to innovate, Givaudan is at the forefront of creating flavours and fragrances that ‘engage your senses’. The Company achieved sales of CHF 5.1 billion in 2017. Headquartered in Switzerland with local presence in over 100 locations, the company has more than 11,100 employees worldwide. Givaudan invites you to discover more at www.givaudan.com.

Plant Controller

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Plant Controller, your future role?

Your will be the Controller of our Fragrance business production sites located at Mount Olive and Towaco, New Jersey. As such, you will support the Operations strategy with sound financial and operations controlling together with interpretive and predictive analysis, to allow decision-making by the sites' top management, leading to improved productivity and enhanced profitability for our business. You will ensure a full finance integration into Operations challenging and enhancing our decisions.

You will report into the Regional Operations Controller and work on-site in our facilities located in Mount Olive, New Jersey, with one home-office day a week.

Your Main Responsibilities Will Be

Financial Performance Reporting

  • Review annual budget (financial and non-financial) versus targets.
  • Perform monthly review of actual performance versus target/prior year (operating costs, headcount, Capex investment/divestment, customer service, inventory)
  • Ensure data accuracy, and meaningfulness of Operational financial and Indicator data through regular reviews.
  • Perform audits to ensure compliance with operational and financial procedures.

Financial Planning

  • Review and validate operation Capex submission & hiring proposals.
  • Provide guidance to Operations team, identifying opportunities and developing corrective actions to meet financial and non-financial targets.
  • Develop the annual operating targets by site and review with headquarters.
  • Support development of Business Cases for new investments.
  • Help develop the region Operations 5-year business plan and annual operating budgets according to our goals.

Operations/Site Support

  • Advise Supply Chain Team in all financial matters and participates in regional SCM projects.
  • Work with local Operations and Site Controllers across the region to remain current on activities having impact on performance.

Processes

  • Work with Regional Operations Controller and Global Operations Controller for improvement, streamlining and automation of reporting processes.
  • Support Lean implementation in the region (Indicators setting, definitions & tools) and maintain regional Lean Indicators tool.

You?

Your Professional Profile Requires

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Economics or Accounting with Master's degree.
  • At least 5 years of experience as a Site Production Controller or a similar Controlling experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with financial analysis and controlling techniques.
  • Continuous improvement experience (Six Sigma, Lean).
  • SAP FICO experience.
  • Fluent in English.

Our Benefits

  • Annual bonus.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision plans and a high matching 401k.
  • Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions
  • International working environment.
  • Quality of Life program.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.

Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Join us and Impact Your World

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.

Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.

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