Controller - UK in Widnes

The Mobility UK Plant Controller will be the strategic business partner to the Mobility UK Plant Leaders. They will be the finance leader for these sites thus responsible for ensuring strong financial control, cost/working capital management and adherence to GAAP/IFRS and company financial policies. This role will report directly to the Mobility Operations Finance Leader.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards as a part of the monthly close processes.
• Enforce adherence to GAAP/IFRS and company financial policies through monitoring all internal control systems to ensure integrity in financial reporting.
• Own the integrity and accuracy of all manufacturing-related balance sheet accounts, while ensuring coordination with Corporate Controllership and Tax and compliance with CHQ policies.
• Prepare timely, accurate financial reports, forecasts and variance analysis that support strategic business decisions.
• Translate operational performance metrics - throughput, yield, scrap, labor efficiency, etc. - into financial impact to enable plant leadership to react quickly and effectively.
• Lead inventory management ensuring accurate valuation, robust standard costing process, cycle count integrity obsolescence management and working capital optimization.
• Support the development and execution of the annual budgeting and rolling forecast processes ensuring alignment with company goals.
• Lead resolution of discrepancies and drive improvements in data quality and reporting systems.
• Is a consistent role model for the Alkegen Core Values.

Qualifications

• Demonstrates excellent process management and change management skills.
• Exemplifies a systems-thinking mindset being able to navigate complexity and understand secondary and tertiary financial impacts on decisions.
• Combines strong manufacturing finance and technical accounting skillsets.
• Develops relationships that enable effective leading, coaching, and development of team members.
• Is a highly motivated problem solver able to balance priorities well under pressure.
• Communicates clearly with all stakeholder groups; quickly builds trust, credibility and respect with senior leadership.
• Can translate complex financial analyses into clear decision framework for leadership to quickly assess.
• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting required.
• 5+ years of experience with 1-2 years relevant FP&A experience focused in a manufacturing setting.
• Ability and excitement to navigate a complex, fast growing, global manufacturing and business environment.
• Excellent organizational and analytical skills w/ supervisory experience leading financial teams through both controllership & FP&A duties and tasks.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Extremely proficient with Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint.

Alkegen brings together two of the world's leading specialty materials companies to create one new, innovation-driven leader focused on battery technologies, filtration media, and specialty insulation. Through global reach and breakthrough inventions, we're delivering products that enable the world to breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before. With over 60 manufacturing facilities with a global workforce of over 9,000 of the industry's most experienced talent, including insulation and filtration experts, Alkegen is uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.