Plant Business Financial Controller - Dijon

Context

Within the GSC Europe FD & MoMa cluster (10 plants in Europe; ~€1bn COGS) and a Finance team of 10 controllers in Europe supported by CoCe analysts in Poland, you will operate at the Dijon site.

Schneider Electric Dijon, a Smart Factory 4.0 with 40+ years of expertise, is 3 hours from Paris and 2 hours from Lyon.

With advanced industrial capabilities (integrated traceability, test labs, high-speed special machines) and 350+ employees, the plant is a Group reference for high-volume assembly/adjustment of motor circuit breakers (TeSys, GV2), relays (TeSys, LRD), and prefabricated busways.

Reporting line

Reports to: Cluster Finance Director.

Key interfaces: GSC Europe Finance, Shared Services Accounting & Costing (Poland), Operations/Production, Industrialization, Supply Chain/Planning, Quality, Procurement, HR, Internal/External Audit, Corporate Controlling.

Your purpose

Be the finance co-pilot to the Plant Manager: explain performance, drive competitiveness, optimize cash (Capex & inventory), secure compliance and support transformation projects.

Your key responsibilities

1) Explain financial performance


* Own the site P&L / Balance Sheet / Cash view and provide clear storytelling (what/why/what's next),


* Lead monthly close and accurate variance analysis by activity,


* Reconcile Actual vs Standard and productivity through Analysis of Change,


* Prepare and present Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews with data-driven actions.

2) Drive competitiveness


* Partner across Operations/Industrialization/Supply Chain/Quality/Purchasing to deliver cost productivity (lean savings, yield, scrap reduction, maintenance optimization, energy efficiency),


* Co-lead Make-versus-Buy, footprint, automation and capacity utilization analyses; quantify ROI and track benefits,


* Implement costing transparency by product family/value stream; identify loss trees and drive CI roadmaps,


* Support pricing/transfer price with cost-to-serve and margin analytics,


* Track the savings pipeline (validated/secured/recognized) with strong governance.

3) Optimize Cash (Capex & Inventory)


* Lead plant Capex governance: plan aligned to strategy/productivity roadmap and depreciation forecast,


* Support business cases (NPV/IRR/Payback) and drive post-implementation reviews (PIRs),


* Monitor WIP, advances, capitalization timing and asset tagging; prevent idle/non-productive assets,


* Drive inventory excellence: reduce SLOB (ABC/XYZ, MOQ, safety stock, cycle counting), improve accuracy/valuation; recommend design changes to reduce material exposure.

4) Secure compliance / audits / KICs follow-up


* Ensure policy compliance (accounting manual, capitalization, impairment, standard costing, reserves, DOA),


* Coordinate internal/external audits; close findings with dated action plans,


* Maintain documentation (process narratives, RACI, work instructions, control testing, sign-offs),


* Safe...