Job Vacancies at Faurecia

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

The role of the Plant controller is to manage the controlling of a plant in order to guarantee and optimize the plant's financial performance and competitiveness.

The main missions of the role are to:

Ensure compliance to all financial procedures

• Develop, execute and control internal finance procedures including spending authorization in accordance with Group procedures and policies
• Ensure site activities are compliant with Faurecia finance related procedures (product flow, inventory, routings, …), and internal control basics

Provide reliable financial/controlling informations in close relationship with other operational and support functions

• Lead all financial forecasting processes (budget, periodic forecast, …)
• Manage reporting process ensuring reliability, consistency, transparency and delay compliance
• Ensure reliability of standard costing
• Provide all necessary controlling analysis including variance analysis/standard costs, margin/programs, plant budgetary control , squeeze management and follow up of sales and purchasing prices,…
• Collaborate with Shared Service Center obtaining/providing/validating proper finance information
• Control and manage the plant’s operating cash flow (capex, inventories, overdues)
• In liaison with Shared Service Center provide all necessary information requested by internal and external auditors, and others local external authorities

For new programs

• Participate in Business Plan validation, and ensure consistency with plant financial information
• Monitor the program start up and establish variances versus last reference business plan
• Participate in the program post-audit, be the finance lead person in the tracking of convergence plan related to plant activities

Act as a business partner towards the plant management, and provide recommendations to the management

• Participate, with the management of the plant, in the development of action plans resulting from relevant analysis in order to achieve the operational targets, increase plant’s financial profitability and cash optimization (especially identification and implementation of productivity plans)
• Follow financial impact and progress of action plans
• Ensure financial awareness of plant operational teams

Ensure the management and development of the controlling team

Qualifications :

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Appropriate Finance degree (Bcom accounts / Cima /CA).
• 3 to 10 years of professional experience, according to the size and complexity of the site, including a first controlling experience at plant level
• Familiarity with industrial Information Systems and Flows (SAP or other ERP)
• Good accounting knowledge
• Business minded and strong teamwork
• Good communication skills
• Fluent in English Team player who works well under pressure and can achieve targets

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Main purpose of the role

The Accounts Receivable JNR clerk is responsible for the monthly collection of cash through the monitoring of customer accounts and overdues. The role further entails monthly and weekly analysis of cash forecasting and cash collection risk.

Essential responsibilities and duties

• The Accounts Receivable JNR clerk is responsible for all customer related information and administration, which includes:

Monthly cash forecasting

• Ensure regular follow up’s on monthly overdue and due’s amounts
• Timeous allocation of received cash
• Creation and distribution of weekly and monthly overdue files, to all relevant stakeholders
• Facilitate weekly overdue meetings
• Escalation of payment delays
• Analyse differences between expected and received payments
• Ensure minimal customer overdues and properly document and justify overdues
• Assist with the preparation of balance sheet reviews, related to accounts receivable
• Be proactive and build good customer relationships

Qualifications and position requirements

• Matric, however an accounting qualification is advantageous
• 2 to 5 years of professional experience
• Computer literacy and strong Excel skills
• SAP experience is advantageous
• Good organizational skills
• Strong sense of teamwork
• Good communication skills
• Fluent English

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

The Accounts Receivable Graduate is responsible for the monthly collection of cash through the monitoring of customer accounts and overdues.

The main missions will be as follows:

• Follow up on cash collections, with customers
• Update daily accounts receivable KPI's
• Follow up on queries and ensure the queries are resolved
• Prepare weekly reports, for plant controlling and key stakeholders

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

The ideal graduate will have/be:

• Minimum a BCOM degree in Financial Accounting
• An academic record maintaining an overall 70% pass mark.
• Strong analytical and problem solving-skills. 
• Strong customer satisfaction orientation.

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Main Mission

The role of a traffic scheduler is to manage and optimize transport flows on behalf of plant(s) :

• The scope may include inbound and outbound; road, sea and air; standard and premium; Full Truck Load (FTL), Less than Truck Load (LTL) and Shared Flows.
• She or he contribute to the continuous improvement of the transport organization in his/her scope.

The traffic scheduler is accountable for

• TS daily operations according to agreed SLA with the plants,
• The Operational cost of his/her scope ( Transaction cost to plant)
• The Cost recharged to carriers ( YTD and forecast vision)
• Part of productivity portfolio with carriers according to improvement roadmaps

Performance Indicators

• Inbound / Outbound freight costs vs Budget (in value and % of sales)
• Transport Management process adherence (ICB compliance, TEO and other Traffic tools compliance)
• Transport service rate (MPM related to freight), Traffic alert management ( # alerts, time to solve..)
• TS platform cost effectiveness ( Transaction cost to plants according to dedicated scope)
• Truck filling rate optimization

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Technical or Master's degree in transport or supply-chain management,
• First experience in transport operations or material planning,
• SAP  SAP knowledge and especially MM , PP and TM  modules appreciated
• Multi-functional & Multi-cultural communication, Minimum bi-lingual (incl. English),
• Customer orientation / Team spirit / Autonomy / Openness to new ideas,
• Ability to work under time pressure

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Main Mission

The graduate is accountable to ensure the daily execution of the procurement process related to all production materials supply in own portfolio to meet the production schedule, minimum stock levels of the customer plants, according to Service Levels Agreements and agreed Operational Cost (transaction cost).

Deliverables, Performance Indicators

• Supplier performance: MPM, backlogs
• Alerts follow up: # or alerts raised, resolution effectiveness, time to solve…
• Cost effectiveness: number of lines processed/month, Truck filling rate for routes of the scope, cost recharge effectiveness (to suppliers or to plants according to SLA)
• Inventory/Cash Management: JNI reduction process: Parameter challenge (MOQ, packaging, frequency, Lead Time improvements), and Supplier arbitration reduction.

Specific Activities

Execution

• On behalf of the plants, build-up a leveled procurement program per part/supplier, according to MRP calculation, taking into both plant needs (PIC/PDP) and suppliers’ capacity;
• Collaborate with the Transport Team to synchronize and optimize both transport and supply plans, and so contribute to transportation cost management, ensure the right account affectation for exceptional freights follow up;
• Lead the plant affectations of supplier deliveries when capacity constraints and ensure the proper communication/follow up;
• Follow-up the execution of the plans, raise and manage alerts when needed; Understand and manage risks to minimize impact on production schedule;
• Measure the supplier’s delivery performance (MPM), collaborate with Purchasing and the Plants to define corrective actions and improvement plans;
• Ensure the eventual supplier/plant claims and cost recharge inputs to PC&L managers and Controllers (Plants, Platform), follow the complete process with Purchasing to provide visibility & Forecast;
• Collaborate with the plants, purchasing and transportation team to continuously reduce inventories through regular reviews of the inventory segmentation (JNI) parameters in FCS;

Process standardization and development

• Schedule the supply of materials/components to meet production requirements and minimum safety stock levels; Monitor inventory levels against agreed target levels (JNI);
• Ensure the check of supplier capacities (fixed and forecast horizon) with plants and Purchasing, highlight if any deviation and propose potentials alternatives;
• Plan, develop, implement and evaluate Standard Processes for material supply from supplier to point of fitment: EDI usage, Lisa, Lisa NG and ASN usage according to ICB rules and FES X.0 requirements
• Ensure Master data accuracy related to procurement process, assess volume requirements against planning assumptions;
• Minimize obsolete stock and ensure business is hold with minimum liability, according to validity dates managed by plant team;
• Ensure the update of any supplier management documentation (SLA, Part Logistic data sheet, any specific agreements regarding packaging and safety stock requirement);
• Contribution to roadmap for productivity portfolio and supplier’s management

Relationship Management

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to forecast, plan and facilitate on-time materials to the production line as and when required, avoiding disruption to production;
• Generate and communicate supplier material delivery schedules and forecasts to ensure they reflect requirements and meet demands; issue formal quarterly review for critical suppliers;
• Develop and maintain good relationships with suppliers and ensure demand for materials is met and deliveries made on time; visits planning can be set up for selected suppliers;
• Develop and implement processes and work with suppliers on continuous improvement initiatives.

Management & Training

• Meet the code of conduct of the Company and promote it within the team. Behave as a ¨role model¨, according to the “Being Faurecia” spirit;
• Assertive, optimistic and resilient;
• Is self-aware and has a collaborative approach to working with others;
• Share all relevant information to his manager and team; Provide reporting to his manager;
• Self-motivated and able to work under pressure.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• Bachelor's degree in industrial or supply-chain management or equivalent
• Multi-functional & Multi-cultural communication,
• SAP knowledge appreciated, especially MM module
• Minimum bi-lingual (English + one other languages)
• Customer orientation / Team spirit / Autonomy