Senior Plant Controller

Campari Group is a leading player in the global branded spirits industry, with a portfolio of premium and super premium brands marketed and distributed in over 190 markets worldwide. Headquartered in Milan, Italy, the company owns plants worldwide and has its own distribution network in several countries, employing approximately 4,000 people.

The Senior Plant Controller will be part of the European Financial Planning & Analysis organization and report to the SC FP&A EMEA Manufacturing Manager. The role will involve ensuring a sustainable P&L of the factory, in compliance with group policies and practices, by supporting the local management in planning and monitoring costs and results, providing them with financial advice and performing ad hoc analysis with a specific focus on continuous improvement and cost containment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Definition and management of the financial plant forecasts (Budget, Revised Budget) liaising with each team leader from the different departments in the site.
• Preparation and execution of required month-end closing activities.
• Develop and maintain a loss tree analysis at plant level and identify areas to be attacked.
• Collaborating to define clear accountabilities and responsibilities into the plant management by identified loss.
• Contribute to the plant continuous improvement process supporting SC functions.
• Mapping of relevant productivity initiatives, dealing with SC in order to make it sustainable.
• Elaboration of periodic reporting and statistics both for Plant Director and Regional/Group Stakeholders.
• Spread a controlling rather than an accounting mindset through the plant management to support the decision-making process.
• Variance analysis vs targets, collaborating to identify the root causes of deviations and monitoring corrective actions status.
• Process mapping and end-to-end impact analysis from COGP perspective.
• Support the development of economic and operational analyses contributing to the decision-making processes.
• Asset management control; financial evaluation of capital expenditure projects.
• Management of administrative tasks/services of the plant within SAP environment.
• Business cases design and evaluation.
• Suggest improvement actions on plant management processes and organizational procedures.
• Ensuring regular information flows between Plant and Administration functions.
• Evaluate all plant transactions according to accounting procedures.
• Contribute to various key projects as the FP&A representative.

Requirements:

• Planning & Analysis experience within Finance & Controlling departments;
• Must be familiar with working in a matrix organization.
• Experience in working on challenging projects.
• Degree in Economics or Engineering.
• Strong knowledge of SAP (focus on MM, CO, PP, PM modules) and BW.
• PowerBi knowledge is a plus.

Personal skills:

• International mindset and cross-cultural working attitude;
• Highly analytical approach with deep economic and financial knowledge;
• Pragmatic, hands-on approach, proactive and problem solver;
• Able to act as a leader to address colleagues and stakeholders to achieve target and extra mile;
• Strong focus and attention to details;
• Excellent interpersonal skills.

Campari Group is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion is reflected in our employment policies and practices, which ensure that we provide equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment without regard to any individual's race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or characteristics or expression, political affiliation or activity, age, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.