Operations Finance Director of FPNA

The Company

kp is a globally recognised leader in the packaging and specialty film industry, renowned for its unwavering commitment to sustainability and innovation. The need to act on climate change has never been clearer so we incorporate sustainability into everything we do by #InvestingInBetter - creating innovative products that enhance product protection, shelf life and contribute to reducing the overall carbon footprint.

At kp, we are passionate about ensuring our customers' satisfaction, and we strive to achieve this goal by focusing all our efforts on meeting their evolving needs. Our dedication to drive a positive change in the packaging industry with a focus on quality and sustainability has earned us a reputation as a trusted partner for businesses worldwide.

 

The Finance Director of FP Americas is responsible for providing strategic and tactical leadership across the North America region, harmonizing and standardizing the commercial and operating finance, providing the company with timely and relevante financial information to business decision making.  

 

The role can be fully remote within the US (preferably East Coast) with business travel, as required. 

 

Responsibilities:

Monthly closing

•    Supervise the monthly closing process and interpretation of the monthly P&L of the site; providing guidance to the site controller and provide accountability and explanation in MEC and YEC financial results, anticipating potential risks and proposing actions

•    Monitor sales margins and sales performance, production costs, operational metrics, production orders and product profitability. 

•    Monitor inventories, downgradings, consignment stocks, work in progress, and obsolescence provision calculation

•    Supervise physical inventory counts to validate internal controls

 

Forecast/Budget

•    Leading forecast and budget process for the region (sales and sites) incl. presentation following the guidelines of the division
•    Elaborate and monitor performance improvement actions with commercial and operations to increase efficiency

 

Capex

•    Review Capex projects and ROI 
•    Post mortem analysis in collaboration with site controllers 
•    Supervise from the financial point of view the FP expansion in USA

 

Standarization and Best Practice

•    Continuous review, develop, plan, gain approval for and implement improvements in financial systems and processes in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the department and to introduce best practice. Develop use of Continuous Improvement practises in finance
•    Implementation of a common model for machine tariffs for Americas sites in line with the methodology defined for the segments of rigid and trays in Europe
•    Alignment of processes and controls between Americas and Europe 

•    Identify opportunities to gain productivity across the region or division 

 

Business Partnering

•    Provide effective business partnering support to the commercial and operational teams, aiding in the identification, evaluation and tracking of business initiatives to drive EBITDA and working capital performance
•    Establish a strong business partner culture in the segment in order to achieve defined targets by combining different skills
•    Ad hoc project work in support of the business 

 

Leadership

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