Purpose of the job:
- The successful candidate will oversee all Finance aspects of Alstom’s Operations at Asia-Pacific Region, specifically estimating, analysing and reporting of Operational Financial & Functional cost.
- Acts as a Financial support and business partner to APAC’s Rolling Stock VP’s as well as the different métiers
- Finance support and domain expert for the Business Performance Director
- Measure Productivity and Functional Cost performance for the region.
- Track Saving measures linked to the scope of AT500 Indirect sourcing initiative or equivalent
Key accountabilities:
- Controller of the APAC Regional HQ (AP REM / RU 5203), responsible for the planning cycles, actual reporting and reinvoicing processes, responding queries from Internal Control (ICQ) and External Auditors as well as preparing a monthly AP HQ Business Review
- Business Partner of the APAC Rolling Stock Compo leadership providing them visibility of the Financial Performance of the Operations
- APAC POH Function Controller and Organizer of the Full Cost Controlling (including NPOH) animating the community of function controllers
- Regional counterpart of the Central Operations Finance team for RSCand Services, reporting monthly the MOF (Monthly Operations Finance)
- Contributor to the APAC Business Review and the APAC Finance Business Review in the Ops Finance KPIs
- AT500 + Finance Embassador: coordinate the financial savings deriving from Indirect sourcing performance initiatives such as AT500 etc.
- Animate the Community of Operations Finance and Industrial Controllers in APAC
- FiM: responsible for the deployment of initiatives within the Finance functions in order to boost productivity (automate reports, enhance knowledge of finance instructions and accounting rules, etc…)
- Coordinates budgeting & monthly reporting activities for the various functions & respective scorecards.
- Coordinates the yearly Hourly Rate & Coefficients reviews with sites within the APAC region, gives the appropriate assessment for the Region’s VP validation and follow-up on needs to recalculate them
- Guardian of the FI07 rules and ensures its proper understanding and application by the different stakeholders
- Monitor absorption of functional costs to various projects & activities through the under-/-over recovery mechanism of productive hours
- Interacts with clusters finance teams to enhance the level of understanding of variances & gaps at closings.
- Ensures successful roll-outs of improvement & productivity initiatives in APAC locations & countries.
- Feeds the analysis of Alstom’s central FP&A team at budget and monthly closing times.
- Work to improve self-servicing capabilities & on-line access to finance data for the operational leaders.
- Continue help re-design & improve operations scorecards addressing the key priorities as company focus evolves.
- Promoting the Alstom Code of Ethics and adhering to the highest standards of ethical conduct.
Key Job Authorities and Dimensions
- 3Bn Region Turnover
- 5 Clusters , 12 countries, 12 manufacturing sites
- 17,000 employees, 26m annual Hours
- 0.7Bn Region Inventory
- 25m annual CAPEX
Performance measurements:
- Production Overhead Costs & Productivity
- Costs Controlling by Nature & by Function
- Follow FTE by Function and related KPIs (Added Sales/FTE, etc.)
- Gathers from Cash Controller analysis on: Hard & Acc. Inventory, Trade Payable, CAPEX
- Restructuring
- Added Sales, Workload, External Material and Other Direct Project Costs
- Hourly Rates & Coefficients (DLR, DCR, Ki, Kp), Under/Over Recovery (split of effect by seasonality, performance, one-offs, etc.), Effective Hourly Rates
- AT500 Indirect Sourcing savings
- Follow Operational KPIs (CONQ, #Cars delivered, Defects per unit, etc.)
Educational Requirements
Business degree
Experience
- 10+ year of increasing Finance responsibility
- Previous position in a manufacturing, supply chain and/or an engineering finance role, or at the very least an advanced understanding of performance levers & metrics in an operations context.
- Previous exposure to inventory & standard cost accounting.
