Interim FP&A Specialist

INTRODUCTIE
On behalf of one of our clients, an international manufacturing company with plants in Belgium and France, DutchDare International is recruiting for an Interim Senior FP&A specialist.

ORGANISATIE
The Finance department is about 20 professionals, with disciplines like Control, Reporting / Consolidation, Tax, Treasury, Accounting and FP&A.

FUNCTIE

• Trusted advisor to the CFO and CEO. Proactively collaborate, influence, and align the company’s planning processes to achieve the overall company strategy and oversee forecasting, planning, reporting, analytics, and decision support.

• Partner with broader organization to drive processes and systematic improvements across the Company

• Understand the company’s activities and demonstrate initiative by creating new measures & metrics to align the company’s performance with its’ goals

• Develop a deep understanding of key business drivers and how we can influence them

• Analyze complex financial information to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to Managers, business leaders, and CFO/CEO

• Design and build sophisticated financial models to provide guidance to Financial Analysts in building and refining their own models

• Consolidate data, provide analysis, and prepare reports for Management and the Board of Advisors meetings

• Continually improve quality and maturity of our financial analysis and partnership with the business. Understand changing business needs and drive best-in-class results. This includes partnering with organizational leaders to understand the drivers of performance in their business organization and support plans which drive improved results

• Oversee and manage the annual operating budgets of the corporate support functions

• Support the annual audit function and interface with external auditors

FUNCTIE-EISEN
Solid (Internal) Audit (Staff) experience; proven track record
Ability and eagerness to dig into Budgets and actuals at a detailed level
Significant experience performing variance analyses in a complex environment running a systemic Standard Cost Inventory Valuation, Shop Order performance and MFG Variance system
Hands-on experience working with Cost Accounting and Operating personnel to research MFG variances at a detailed transaction and plan level and to build up the analysis and interpretation of the cause-and-effect of variances for different levels of the organizations (Operator, Plant Manager, Senior Management)
Experience performing reconciliation and analysis procedures in a changing environment
Solid experience as an FP&A specialist within an international environment (more specifically the manufacturing)
Professional level at Bachelor’s level
Change management skills to bring people to a higher professional level
Business proficiency in English is a must.