Finance Manager - EMEA Logistics & Distribution

Job Details

What You Will Do:

Within the Johnson Controls' Global Products business unit, the Global Operations supply chain organization is responsible for more than 90 manufacturing plants and distribution centres which have over $900 million of annual freight and warehouse spending.

Within Global Operations, this role supports the Europe and Mid-East Logistic and Distribution (L&D) organization by providing informative, and timely financial analysis on monthly performance, forward looking budgets and forecasts, and operational initiatives. We are seeking a Finance Manager to be a key part of the regional management team by ensuring a strong linkage and understand between the operational metrics and their financial impacts for 3 primary and 6 secondary distribution centres with ~$25 million of annual conversion cost as well as ~$60 million of freight spending within the EMEA region.

How You Will Do It:

• Leads the development of regional L&D plan and forecasts, ensuring integrity of numbers submitted, supporting assumptions, and alignment to enterprise objectives, ensuring communication with partners.
• Prepares in-depth financial and operational analysis of regional L&D financial results, completing financial bridges on actual to plan, forecast, and prior year while ensuring accuracy and quality of data.
• Supports a strong controls and governance environment, assisting with audits, identifying gaps and conducting balance sheet reviews.
• Provides financial oversight to the cycle count processes, partner with site leaders to organize and coordinate the annual physical inventory counts where necessary
• Provides financial leadership on cross functional projects. Project will include: L&D locations and optimizing distribution points, inventory levels, and transportation
• Deployment of freight audit & pay processes
• Development of capital expenditure investments requests, reporting of spending, and validation of savings achievement

What We Look For:

• Proven experience in finance department of a large multi-national company
• Educated to degree level, ideally in accounting/finance or with accounting certification.
• Pro-active with Continuous improvement mentality. Ability to communicate and inspire change.
• Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication, problem solving skills
• Be able to communicate effectively with both finance and non-finance colleagues and to build strong working relationships with both the operations and finance teams
• Individual PC skills, particularly Excel/Power Point and ideally with HFM/OneStream/Oracle/SAP

Our culture

At Johnson Controls you'll have the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting projects in today's market. Our hardworking people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, hardworking and above all fun.

We believe that diversity and inclusion matter and make a difference. By embracing the true value of diversity and inclusion, getting comfortable with having crucial conversations, and valuing different perspectives, we will be one of the most desirable places to work.