MAIN MISSIONS:
Financial Management & Control
- Lead all financial cycles for the local industrial side, in the frame of processes defined by the Group: budget, financial estimates, monthly closing;
- Lead local CAPEX financial business cases and follow/monitor their implementation;
- Improve internal control, notably in the fields of purchasing, distribution and manufacturing;
- Ensure full control of inventories: inventory stock takings, stock valuation, fair value (assess obsolescence and provision for risks);
- Animate industrial cost controlling and cost saving projects.
Data collection & analysis
- Calculate the unit standard costs consistently with Group standards & procedures;
- Issue monthly industrial variances so as to support decision making and action plans monitoring;
- Provide alerts and recommendations for improvements;
- Support the capture and analysis of R&D spending / CAPEX for the purpose of maximizing available tax credits and bio-science grants.
Policy/tools development & implementation
- Apply Ceva accounting and controlling standards and procedures in the campuses regarding industrial costing and stock valuation to meet reporting requests from the Group in quality (reliable and accurate) and deadlines;
- Participate in the implementation of Ceva’s ERP in the JV: JDE production module (with the support of the Corporate IT team);
- Ensure that campuses are meeting all requirements of Chinese GAAP when appropriate.
Internal Customer Management
- Participate in SOP meetings, KPI review meetings and strongly interact with other departments (production, supply chain…);
- Work with China business controller to provide all necessary industrial cost information;
- Provide training and education to the campus staff related to industrial and cost accounting concepts.
The incumbent reports to the CFO of the Country.
He or she is in relation with:
- The Corporate Finance and Controlling Departments at Headquarters concerning drawing up industrial budgets, forecasts and estimates, monthly reporting (industrial reporting to Biology Unit), CAPEX financial business cases and projects follow-up, the application of Group procedures and methodologies related to industrial cost management and the contribution to cost convergence initiatives;
- The Group Biology Unit and China Industrial Director, particularly concerning KPI’s reporting, industrial controlling report and industrial costs strategy,
- The IT Department concerning the implementation, upgrade, maintenance of software packages (industrial and inventory module).
The position will be mainly based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
The newly recruited Industrial Controller will benefit from training and support by Corporate Controlling team.