What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Controller Specialist position at Givaudan Fragrances?
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.
Finance Controller Specialist, your future role?
You will support our Finance Management by preparing and distributing financial information related to Capex projects of our manufacturing sites in the US. You will work with site engineers, local management, regional controllers and local finance from the stage of evaluating capital proposals up until value realization, to maximize projects efficiency.
You will report into the Finance Manager and work four days a week in our corporate office located in Cincinnati, OH, and one day a week from home.
Your main responsibilities will be:
Business support
- Support the Capex annual budget process for our US manufacturing sites.
- Perform a monthly review of the projects (budget vs actual) and inform the status to internal partners.
- Analyze deviations and investigate issues.
- Ensure the projects are correctly closed in the Accounting, doing the corresponding capitalization.
Financial Performance Analysis
- Analyze and coordinate activities associated with Capex projects of our sites.
- Prepare monthly data with the status of projects, Asset Under Construction (AUC) and Fixed Assets (FA).
- Support requirements associated with the month-end financial close.
- Review balance sheet and P&L accounts related to AUC and FA that may require journal entries, accruals/reserves and reclassifications.
Investment Process & Inventory Control
- Support planning and tracking of spending against the capital plan for each site.
- Coordinate periodic inventory of Fixed Assets for the sites.
- Ensure closure of investment projects and subsequent capitalisation of AUC.
You
If you are you someone who wants to shape your world, who excels in being in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment, who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are, then join us - and improve your world.
Your professional profile includes:
- University degree in Accounting, Finance or Economics.
- At least 4 years of experience in controlling or CAPEX projects financial analysis in manufacturing companies.
- Experience controlling processes.
- Fluent English, both oral and written.
- Experience using SAP FI/CO.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Experience in Project Management.
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.
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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.
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