Finance Director for Manufacturing & Operations - Injection Molding

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Job Overview

We are looking for a Finance Director for Operations & Manufacturing - Injection Molding, based in Taoyuan, Taiwan that will report to Senior Finance Director for Operations & Manufacturing based in Switzerland headquarter and will lead finance teams (controllers/analysts) who focus on providing business partnership and insight to production cost simulation and manufacturing finance.

Main Responsibilities

• Business Partner with the Taiwan management team, in particular Operations, Supply Chain, Quality and Continuous Improvement.
• Financial stewardship of the Taiwan factories’ P&L (down to Gross Margin) and Working Capital (in particular Payables and Inventory).
• Drives the Financial Operating Model (FOM) for Taiwan operations and tracks the performance and achievement of key processes and metrics, e.g. conversion costs, manufacturing absorption, production variances, Cost of Poor Quality (CoPQ), productivity, MatEx, OpEx, CapEx, inventory, etc.
• Supports continuous improvement in Cost Accounting processes and Standard Costs deployment to allow fact-based decision making, particularly around over/under absorption, production variances and CoPQ.
• Supports our roadmap for Product Profitability reporting, and Product Cost simulations across factories and different manufacturing processes.
• Leads and develop the Taiwan Operations & Manufacturing Finance team,
• Supports the global FP&A team in the business Planning & Analysis cycles.
• Collaborates with the Taiwan MT to develop a budget and productivity roadmap for the factories, highlight key manufacturing variances and engage with functional leaders for possible mitigating actions (Manufacturing Engineering, Procurement, Quality, Continuous Improvement, etc.).
• Responsible for the compliance agenda on Taiwan production assets - inventory, WIP, fixed assets and CIP/AUC.
• Supports process standardisation initiatives and drive local internal controls procedures in Taiwan as required by our policies and Global Compliance team.
• Responsible for the Taiwan Operations & Manufacturing conversion costs and departmental expenses (cost centres).

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Injection Molding Manufacturing background is a must
• Languages: Fluent in English and Mandarin.
• Positive, “can-do” attitude, energetic leader able to gather energy and build followership.
• Ability to gain trust at all levels of the organisation.
• University degree in Business, Finance, Science, Industrial Engineering or similar.
• 15+ years of Finance experience in a Manufacturing or Engineering environment
• Solid and hands-on experience of cost accounting, product costing and manufacturing productivity in high-volume mass production environments.
• Analytical mindset, focused on proposing options to resolve problems, rather than reporting problems.
• Solid communication skills -verbal and written.
• Mobility: ~15% of Travel (US, Europe).