What You Will Do:

Within the Johnson Controls’ Global Products business unit, the Global Operations supply chain organization is responsible for more than 90 manufacturing plants and distribution centres which have over $900 million of annual freight and warehouse spending.

Within Global Operations, this role supports the Europe and Mid-East Logistic and Distribution (L&D) organization by providing informative, and timely financial analysis on monthly performance, forward looking budgets and forecasts, and operational initiatives. We are seeking a Finance Manager to be a key part of the regional management team by ensuring a strong linkage and understand between the operational metrics and their financial impacts.

How You Will Do It:

• Leads the development of regional L&D plan and forecasts, ensuring integrity of numbers submitted, supporting assumptions, and alignment to enterprise objectives, ensuring communication with partners.
• Prepares in-depth financial and operational analysis of regional L&D financial results, completing financial bridges on actual to plan, forecast, and prior year while ensuring accuracy and quality of data.
• Supports a strong controls and governance environment, assisting with audits, identifying gaps and conducting balance sheet reviews.
• Provides financial oversight to the cycle count processes, partner with site leaders to organize and coordinate the annual physical inventory counts where necessary
• Provides financial leadership on cross functional projects. Project will include: L&D locations and optimizing distribution points, inventory levels, and transportation
• Deployment of freight audit & pay processes
• Development of capital expenditure investments requests, reporting of spending, and validation of savings achievement

What We Look For:

Required:

• Minimum 5 years extensive experience in the finance department
• Experience in financial reporting, analysis, and month-end close processes
• Educated to degree level, ideally in accounting/finance or
• Pro-active with Continuous improvement mentality. Ability to communicate and inspire change.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, problem solving skills
• Be able to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance colleagues and to build strong working relationships with both the operations and finance teams
• Individual PC skills, experience with financial systems such as OneStream, Hyperion, HFM, or similar planning tools

 Preferred:

• Experience in finance department of a large multi-national company
• Accounting certification

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