Site Business Controller

Job description

The Site Business Controller is the senior finance partner for the PMPL manufacturing site in Poland. The role combines strong plant-controlling discipline with forward-looking business partnership. It turns operational and financial data into clear actions, strengthens forecast predictability, challenges decisions constructively and helps the site leadership team improve profitability, cash generation and return on invested capital. What You Will Do • Site financial leadership: Own the financial rhythm for the manufacturing site, including actuals, forecast, annual planning and performance reviews. • Business partnering: Partner closely with the Plant Operations Leader and site leadership team; bring an economic perspective to operational and commercial decisions. • Performance management: Explain results and variances, connect financial outcomes to operational drivers and translate findings into measurable actions. • Forecasting and planning: Build realistic, driver-based forecasts; identify opportunities and risks; maintain clear scenarios and recovery acti ons; m anage the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) • Cost and productivity: Challenge labor, overhead, material, scrap, yield and conversion-cost performance; support sustainable cost reduction and efficiency programs. • Investment decisions: Lead or support business cases for capital and major operating decisions using ROCC, NPV, IRR, payback and cash-flow analysis. • Working capital and cash: Drive visibility and action around inventory, receivables, payables and other working-capital levers. • Controls and compliance: Maintain effective financial controls and support tax, statutory, legal, internal-audit and external-audit requirements. • Cross-functional leadership: Work with Operations, Commercial, Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering, HR, FP&A, Corporate Finance and Global Business Services. • Change and improvement: Challenge current ways of working, simplify reporting, improve decision support and lead finance-related improvement initiatives. • PBM culture: Apply Principle Based Management in daily work, including integrity, stewardship, challenge, knowledge sharing and value creation. • Ensuring effective CAPEX governance and fixed asset controls, including timely capitalization of new investments. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) • Experience in finance, including independent controlling or finance-management responsibility in a manufacturing environment. • Demonstrated ownership of plant P&L, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis and operational performance management. • Strong understanding of manufacturing economics and cost drivers, including labor, overhead, material usage, productivity, inventory and capital expenditure. • Ability to influence senior operational stakeholders, challenge constructively and convert analysis into decisions and actions. • Advanced analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex information clearly to finance and non-finance audiences. • Hands-on experience with ERP and reporting tools; SAP or a comparable manufacturing ERP is strongly preferred. Advanced Excel and PowerPoint capability is required. • Fluent business English. Polish language capability is strongly preferred for effective partnership at site level. What Will Put You Ahead • University degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline. • Professional finance qualification such as ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent is an advantage, not a strict requirement. • Experience in a multinational, matrixed organization and cooperation with shared-service teams. • Experience with greenfield, site expansion, major investment or business-transformation projects is desirable. • Exposure to regulated manufacturing, medical devices or high-quality manufacturing environments is an advantage. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Who We Are At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results. Apply now Share • Email • Facebook • X • LinkedIn