Global Senior Supply Chain Finance Manager

4 weeks ago


Minnetonka, United States Veolia Water Technologies and Solutions Full time

Job Summary about the area and the role:

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (WTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications, to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment.

At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We're an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements.

The NAM/F&M Global Senior Supply Chain Finance Manager will manage all SC NAM finance activities of the region +$700M of annual cost with +1,000 SC employees, across integrated SC, Manufacturing, logistics and Procurement, and be the SC financial link in the value chain ensuring coordination and cooperation. He/she will also be responsible for the global financial coordination and view of the F&M activity globally.

In this role you will partner closely with regional supply chain leaders to develop and implement strategic objectives for managing the activities of the manufacturing and logistics operations, and be the financial link to the commercial elements of the value chain for NAM and F&M globally. You will be responsible to drive cost productivity, CAPEX, working capital, and fixed asset controls across 14 manufacturing sites and warehouses.

Key Characteristics

  • Strong Leadership Skills

  • Customer Focus

  • Strong Project Management Skills

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Drive variable and base cost productivity initiatives, direct material savings programs,

  • Inventory revaluations, and standard product costing.

  • Provides strategic business partnership and thought leadership to the Supply Chain Leadership Team as well as

  • Drive the development of annual operating plans and monthly estimates, operating rhythms of the manufacturing sites including production volume analysis,

  • People Management

  • Lead the closing processes across NAM sites, ensure ledgers are closed in a timely manner,

  • with accuracy, and in compliance with GAAP and IFRS. Provide detailed variance analysis.

  • Lead annual physical inventory process across NAM manufacturing sites and warehouses. Provides inventory optimization, cost productivity projects, and fixed asset utilization.

  • Interpret plant analytics to drive business process improvements.

  • Ensure controllership and consistency of accounting process across the operations, drive

  • controllership awareness and processes through operations teams, and ensure finance

  • compliance.

  • Support development of supply chain finance policies and procedures.

  • Partner with product management to identify and drive product profitability actions

  • Understand factory volume linkage to commercial volume and drive actions to improve

  • utilizations and planning.

  • Able to work collaboratively across Commercial, Product Management, Technology and

  • other disciplines to improve overall financial performance of the company.

  • Able to work collaboratively across other finance disciplines including Controllership, FP&A

  • and other business disciplines to drive process improvement, consistency and strong internal

  • control.

Hard Skills

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, controlling and managing the integrity of theresults

  • Previous water industry experience

  • Business process mindset

  • Finance Systems appreciation & keenness to learn and develop the next generation financetoolkit

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

  • Prior experience with SAP and Tableau or similar BI tools

Soft Skills

  • Inclusive: Passionate for working in different cultures and environments, in a collaborative organization with a diversity team.

  • Team Player: Ability to work with others toward a shared goal, participating actively, accountable and committed to the entire team respecting peers, leadership, stakeholders, and clients.

  • Inspirational: Excellent oral and written communication skills: Communicate clearly and professionally with Finance and non-Finance professionals within the organization being able to inspire others.

  • Decision Maker: Challenge the status quo and make decisions based on your role to be an effective problem solver and use critical thinking skills to find new ideas and connect them to provide the best practices and tools to our stakeholders and clients.

  • Flexibility: Adapt and respond to the changing environment and to constructively create opportunities for change through active participation.

Education & Experience

Required:

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or equivalent experience

  • 10+ years successful experience in Finance and 5 years of manufacturing and SC finance


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