Factory Financial Controlling

About the Role

Department: Finance
Location: Samut Sakhon
The Factory Financial Controller is responsible for leading all financial controlling activities within manufacturing operations. This role acts as a key business partner to plant and operations leadership, ensuring strong financial governance, cost control, and performance visibility across production, inventory, supply chain and SG&A. The role focuses on financial planning, costing governance, consolidated management reporting, and operational performance analysis to support decision-making, improve efficiency, and drive sustainable business growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes for manufacturing operations and own the full P&L for manufacturing operations.
• Consolidate revenue inputs from Sales and integrate with cost structures to deliver a complete financial view; monitor plant P&L and KPIs and support monthly/quarterly business reviews with analysis and commentary.
• Oversee and review standard costing processes, validate cost variance analysis (material, labor, overhead), and ensure governance over product costing, BOM, routing, and standard cost updates.
• Control and monitor cost-saving initiatives, provide financial guidance to ensure actions are effective and sustainable, and analyze manufacturing cost performance to identify improvements.
• Ensure proper financial control over inventory, including stock accuracy, cycle count processes, valuation, provisioning, stock adjustments, and incident assessment (damage, obsolescence).
• Develop and enhance consolidated financial and management reports for manufacturing operations; standardize and continuously improve reporting formats, tools, and dashboards.
• Act as finance business partner to plant leadership: evaluate investment projects, cost-saving initiatives and support S&OP from a financial perspective.
• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, systems and reporting; ensure compliance with financial policies, internal controls and audit requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 8–10 years in manufacturing finance or controlling, with a minimum 3 years in a leadership role.
• Experience in SAP, Excel and reporting tools; BI or automation is a plus.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Fluent in English.

Skills / Technical Skills

• Experience with SAP and financial reporting tools.
• Advanced Excel for financial analysis and management reporting.
• Knowledge of inventory control, provisioning and valuation processes.
• Familiarity with compliance, internal controls and audit requirements.