Plant Controller/tl Finance, Global Manufacturing

locations- Louvain-la-Neuve- time type- Full time- posted on- Posted 30 Days Ago- job requisition id- JR00012951- Zoetis est le leader mondial de la santé animale, voué à accompagner ses clients et leurs entreprises. S'appuyant sur plus de 70 ans d'expérience en santé animale, Zoetis découvre, développe, fabrique et commercialise des vaccins et des médicaments vétérinaires, complétés par des produits de diagnostic et des tests génétiques, ainsi que par une gamme de services. Zoetis est au service des vétérinaires, des éleveurs d’animaux de rente et de ceux qui élèvent et prennent soin des animaux de compagnie et de rente, avec la vente de ses produits dans plus de 100 pays.
- Zoetis compte environ 11.000 collègues qui soutiennent nos activités dans les domaines des ventes, de la recherche et du développement, de la fabrication et de diverses fonctions mondiales. Lorsque vous rejoindrez Zoetis, vous aurez l’opportunité d’apprendre, de développer vos compétences et d’enrichir votre carrière de nombreuses manières : formation sur le terrain, travail sur des projets ambitieux ou simple apprentissage entre pairs et managers. Nous bâtissons notre prochaine génération de leaders en investissant dans le développement de nos collègues.
- Role Description
- An opportunity exists for an experienced, proven Finance leader to join the team at the Louvain La Neuve (LLN) manufacturing facility. The LLN site supports more than $500MM in revenue and is responsible for supplying many of Zoetis’ largest and most innovative products to livestock and petcare customers around the globe.
- Key Responsibilities
- Provide financial support and counsel to site leader and leadership team, drive financial performance at the site culture of continuous improvement
- Responsibility for financial planning, analysis and control including leadership of annual budget process, product costing, quarterly forecasting activity and monthly reporting of actual results, ensuring the timeliness and integrity of financial data
- Lead long range financial planning activities for the site
- Provide leadership to site transformation effort and work closely with the site leader to ensure successful implementation
- Establish effective working relationships with finance and non-finance colleagues across the site; take time to understand site operations and educate non finance colleagues in financial performance and key drivers
- Maintain close working relationship with Finance Lead, Biologics technology platform.
- Act as key point of contact for the site with Zoetis Operating Model; provide support to the Tax, Compliance and Accounting team located in Zaventem and to the Zoetis Financial Shared Service as necessary
- Maintain compliance with Zoetis accounting policies and procedures. Co-ordinate and support internal and external audit activity
- Lead finance team with a focus on colleague development. Work with team to identify continuous improvement opportunities in local processes and share key learning’s with leadership
- Qualifications
- Education:

- University degree in appropriate discipline (i.e. accounting, finance or economics)
- Professional accounting designation or equivalent
- Experience:

- 5 - 8 years finance experience in complex manufacturing environment, demonstrates a high level of cost accounting knowledge and strong analytical skills
- Experience with site transformation an advantage
- Demonstrated ability to communicate with all levels of the organization
- Ability to organize and prioritize multiple and diverse projects
- Ability to provide direction to achieve a high level of financial performance and compliance
- Demonstrated high level of customer focus
- Previous people management experience
- Previous SAP experience a plus
- Strong knowledge of US GAAP and Belgian GAAP
- Fluent in French and English

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