Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.
You're purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia's Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose to advance life around the world drives our entire global team.
Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it's facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for good enough when there's an opportunity to make life better.
Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you
At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It's time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments
Responsibilities
Costprice (standard cost) maintenance:
- Monthly costing runs requiring validation on adjusted raw material prices and other input cost changes;
- Owning the local costprice allocation template for allocating conversion costs to individual products by means of a machine rate per hour, etc.
- Close contact to masterdata owners within manufacturing for translating masterdata changes in correct costprice updates understanding BOM's and routings
Finance control for operation activities
- Oversee financial operations of the plant, ensuring cost control and accurate reporting
- Conduct cost variance analysis to control the cost efficiency and provide insight to optimize plant performance
- Develop and manage the plant budget and forecast as based for Costprice
- Implement financial controls to mitigate risks and enhance reporting accuracy
- Optimize inventory management and working capital efficiency
Participate in Supply review meetings:
- Calculate/estimate the impact of agreed volumes on manufacturing costs, expected variances (when standard cost), utilizations and inventory values this can lead to f.e. addressing overstaffed situations in case of a down-turn in volumes
- Output of meeting is input for manufacturing and S&D cost forecast
- Be a challenger in order to improve forecast accuracy
CAPEX applications:
- Central point of contact locally for Capex requests, owning templates and policies
- Coordinating Capex business cases responsible for the cost of sales part with manufacturing and working with other functions to come to a total business case
- Uploading, tracking and tracing of Capex approvals, receiving Q&A about Capex requests and solving this
- Capex reporting following Wavin Operations cycle including Capex spend forecast in relation to this prepare relevant Capex reports for local management purposes
Performance monitoring Manufacturing & supply chain:
- Prepare performance reports for manufacturing & supply chain, in line with local and Wavin Operations management cycle
- Based on analysis pro-actively come forward with points of attention, improvement proposals etc
- Be a financial business partner and challenger to local manufacturing and supply chain
- Be an advocator of cost-consious behavior within operations
- Assure KPI's are harmonized with Global definitions for benchmarking purposes
Budgeting & forecasting for Operations aligned with overall budgeting & forecasting cycle
Internal controls:
- Ensure compliance to relevant policies for operations
- Support developing the internal control framework for controls within the operations area (plants, warehouse, master data).
Projects:
- Standardize and harmonize operational KPI's and definitions for the applicable factory or site, in line with Wavin and Orbia conventions
- Project team member in cost price improvement studies, footprint studies, make or buy decisions, etc.
Qualifications, experience & Language
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related field (mandatory)
- Master's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration (preferred, but not always required).
- Professional Certifications will be a plus point such as CMA (Certified Management Accountant),
- Language(s) and level of proficiency: English Professional Working Proficiency
- Knowledge/Experience: 7-10 years of experience in finance or accounting, with a minimum of 3-5 years in a managerial or supervisory role.
