Controller Job at Huhtamaki Group
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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.
We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.
Huhtamaki’s North America business segment is a leading manufacturer of consumer goods packaging as well as tableware, cups, folding cartons, containers, trays and serviceware for the foodservice, consumer goods and retail markets. Our product portfolio includes Chinet®, the leading brand of premium tableware. Huhtamaki North America business is approximately $1.6B in revenue, employs approximately 4,000 people in 18 manufacturing locations and has its North America headquarters in De Soto, KS. The parent company, Huhtamaki Oyj, has its headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Huhtamaki Oyj is the #1 globally operating foodservice packaging and molded fiber company in the world. In Kansas City, we have just recently announced our partnership with Sporting KC to become the soccer club’s official sustainable packaging provider. It is an exciting time to be working with Huhtamaki.
We are looking for professionals to join our global team of approximately 19,000 people in forty countries. You will think creatively about making our business and those of our customers' more effective and successful. You will always be looking for new ways of working. And along the way you will be making a difference to some of the world's biggest brands, by helping great products reach more people, more easily.
We currently have a position available for:
Business Unit Controller - Foodservice, reporting directly to the CFO/SVP of Finance for North America and working directly with the North America leadership team responsible for commercial activities of our businesses. This role is the lead Finance Business Partner for the commercial team supporting the Foodservice business.
Our Foodservice business is one of three commercial businesses in Huhtamaki and provides packaging products to quick service restaurants and cafeterias.
The position is located in DeSoto, Kansas (Greater Kansas City metropolitan area) working in a hybrid work environment.
BUSINESS UNIT CONTROLLER – FOODSERVICE (FINANCE BUSINESS PARTNER)
The major responsibility of this position is to work with Foodservice business commercial leadership team to develop and plan the goals, objectives and strategies, and to assist with the execution of these plans. The role will drive pricing strategies to optimize product profitability. Additional responsibilities include developing and maintaining a process of preparing, analyzing and communicating financial information to be used to plan, evaluate and control the company’s resources. This role also has responsibility to lead and develop the Finance team supporting the commercial team.
Job Requirements
- Oversee the team of 9-10 finance employees supporting the business unit. (3-4 direct reports, six indirect).
- Independently analyze and report data to determine if the commercial team is on track to achieve profitability targets.
- Investigate variance from the plan and offer corrective action.
- Lead margin improvement and working capital projects.
- Development of pricing strategies, including adherence to pricing policies and procedures.
- Ensure adherence to internal controls and accounting policies.
- Assist with requests from internal and external auditors.
- Train and advise commercial team on finance and systems.
- Develop models for budgeting and forecasting.
- Work with sales team to manage contracts and alignment of pricing requests.
- Monitor and manage revenue deductions, preventing significant revenue leakage.
- Prepare capital requests in support of Foodservice commercial growth projects
Knowledge and Experience
Essential Requirements
- Broad accounting experience with full range of responsibility for at least eight (8) years.
- B.S. in Accounting, Finance or related degree
- Excellent communication skills demonstrated both verbally and written
- Strong management skills and ability to professionally develop employees
- Strong presentation skills using various applications and tools
- Advanced knowledge of analysis and business intelligence tools
- Manufacturing costing knowledge
Desirable but Not Essential
- More than 10 years of accounting experience at the management level in accounting/finance environment
- CPA and/or MBA
- Knowledge and management of Foodservice pricing programs
Join us to shape the future together!
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