Finance Manager
Franke Group
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: San Luis Potosì • Mexico
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About the role
- Act as strategic finance business partner to Plant Manager and leadership team.
- Provide clear, transparent financial reporting and operational performance analysis.
- Translate financial results into operational action plans.
- Actively challenge assumptions and ensure fact-based decision making.
- Ensure early visibility of risks and deviations.
- Establish financial transparency across all plant functions.
- Establish and continuously improve production and standard cost accounting.
- Develop reliable BOM, routing and standard cost transparency.
- Analyze production variances and drive corrective actions.
- Implement robust cost tracking during ramp-up phase.
- Ensure strict budget adherence and cost control.
- Monitor working capital, inventory levels and cash flow impact.
- Ensure cost absorption logic is transparent and sustainable.
- Identify gaps in financial and operational processes.
- Drive implementation of structured controlling routines.
- Improve data quality, reporting accuracy and KPI reliability.
- Ensure SAP and ERP data integrity (FI/CO + PP integration).
- Build scalable reporting frameworks suitable for plant growth.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning.
- Develop scenario planning for ramp-up volatility.
- Implement KPI dashboards covering: Production efficiency, Cost absorption, Inventory accuracy, Capex tracking, Labor productivity.
- Provide monthly performance transparency to Group.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in Industrial Controlling, including standard costing, order costing, variance analysis, and cost absorption models.
- Deep understanding of plant operational processes, ramp‑up dynamics, production efficiency, inventory flows, material movements, and operational KPIs.
- Advanced knowledge of SAP (FI/CO + PP), data flows, data integrity, and master‑data governance.
- Experience developing and managing BOMs, routings, and cost structures, ensuring transparency and accuracy in standard costs.
- Ability to analyze financial impacts across production, manufacturing, inventory, CAPEX, and labor productivity.
- Experience in budgeting, forecasting, long‑range planning, and scenario modeling within volatile or fast‑scaling environments.
- Strong knowledge of Mexican accounting, tax regulations, compliance requirements, and coordination of audits and internal controls.
- Solid understanding of commercial finance, including pricing frameworks, margin management, product/customer/channel profitability, commercial terms, and working capital.
- Experience building scalable reporting frameworks, KPI dashboards, and high‑accuracy reporting systems.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and comprehency salary.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial reportingoperational performance analysiscost accountingBOM developmentvariance analysisbudgetingforecastingscenario modelingKPI developmentcost absorption models
Soft Skills
strategic partnershipfact-based decision makingrisk managementprocess improvementdata quality enhancementcommunicationleadershipanalytical thinkingproblem-solvingcollaboration