Factory Financial Controlling (Samut Sakhon Based)

Job Title: Financial Controlling – Factory (Samut Sakhon Based)

Level: Deputy Department Manager - Department Manager

Department: Finance

Role Overview

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 as well as 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.

Key Responsibilities

1. Financial Planning & Performance Management

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes for manufacturing operations
• Own and manage the full P&L for manufacturing operations, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and alignment with business performance
• Consolidate revenue inputs provided by Sales and integrate with cost structures to deliver a complete financial view
• Monitor plant P&L and key performance indicators, providing insights and actions to improve performance
• Support monthly and quarterly business reviews with clear financial analysis and commentary

2. Costing & Manufacturing Finance

• Oversee and review standard costing processes, ensuring accuracy and alignment with financial policies

• Review and validate cost variance analysis (material, labor, overhead), ensuring key drivers are clearly understood

• Provide guidance and challenge the costing team to improve cost accuracy and transparency

• Ensure governance over product costing, BOM, routing, and standard cost updates

• Control and monitor cost-saving initiatives to enhance competitiveness

• Provide financial guidance and challenge to ensure cost-saving actions are effective and sustainable

• Analyze overall manufacturing cost performance and identify improvement opportunities

3. Inventory & Financial Control

• Ensure proper financial control over inventory, including stock accuracy, cycle count processes, and valuation
• Support provisioning, stock adjustment, and incident assessment (e.g. damage, obsolescence)
• Partner with operations and supply chain to strengthen internal controls and reduce financial risks

4. Reporting & Analysis

• Develop and enhance consolidated financial and management reports for manufacturing operations
• Lead the preparation of monthly and quarterly management reporting packages with key business insights
• Provide high-quality variance analysis with actionable recommendations
• Standardize and continuously improve reporting formats, tools, and dashboards

5. Business Partnering & Strategic Support

• Act as a finance business partner to plant leadership, supporting operational and strategic decisions
• Evaluate investment projects, cost-saving initiatives, and operational improvements (ROI, feasibility)
• Support S&OP process from financial perspective (scenario analysis, cost impact, capacity alignment)

6. Process Improvement & Governance

• Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, systems, and reporting within manufacturing
• Ensure compliance with financial policies, internal controls, and audit requirements

Qualifications

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