Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Manager

As a FP&A Manager (Metals), you will play a key role in providing financial analysis, forecasting, and strategic insights to support decision-making within our organization's metals division. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including sales, operations, and senior management, to drive financial performance, identify opportunities for growth, and optimize business operations. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in financial analysis, a deep understanding of the metals industry or related field, and exceptional analytical and communication skills.

Your Tasks

The primary objective of this role is to effectively develop financial data sets for revenue drivers, operating costs, profitability per material, metal results, and price results. These data sets will be utilized for reporting purposes and to make resilient decisions in various areas.

Reporting and controlling of commercial conditions (TC/RC, metal deductions, target metal contents).
Review of the contractual conditions agreed, controlling of their proper input in the system, and of their proper execution.
Metal result determination: calculating, analysing, and reporting of the actual metal result.
Planning and forecasting of the future metal result (as well as EBT relevant price result): annual planning process (MTP), quarterly forecast, monthly outlook.
Regular review and update of the technical / commercial losses, and of the unanalysed metals per material.
Metal result and smelting fees steering: analysing and tracking of smelting fees per material, deriving of decisions; strong independencies to the metal result and also the margin calculations.
Monitoring of metal inventory quantities.
Support to the SCM team in coordinating the determination of the target inventory and its tracking.
Costing, profitability calculations and reporting: Builds, runs, and updates a model for the calculation of cost rates per metal for the company and combined in a group end-to-end view.
Determination of complete operating costs per metal, per aggregate of introduction, combination of these costs into an end-to-end view. Includes a view of recovery rates per metal, at site and group end-to-end level.
Develops and updates as required the pre-calculation cost data and models (includes the assembly of qualitative assumptions for new cost areas, like Lab and Sampling).
Reviews and ensure the quality of the SAP data required to feed these calculations: budgeted costs per cost-centre, detailed metal balances required to determine circulation factors.
Fosters the usage of the pre-calculation models by the Commercial teams. Uses this data for post-calculation and reporting, in relation with the Reporting and Reporting Systems teams, and with the Commercial teams.
Liaises with the project teams (R&D and Business Analytics) managing the SCOPE model and the Integrated Recycling Model, to provide them with reliable and relevant cost data.
Consults on plant level to make the best decisions for the feed mix.
Monitor transfer prices for intermediate products sold.
Ensure compliance with corporate standards.
Adhoc requests and special topics in the areas of commercial and operations.

Experience

3+ years of related practical experience in FP&A.
General experience with databases at working level.
Experience with SAP preferred.
Good knowledge of MS Office in general, but excellent knowledge of MS Excel.
Understanding of related material flows to uncover and exploit interdependencies to maximize site/group success.
Profound understanding of metal analysis required to meet the information demands of internal and external stakeholders (i.e. external auditors), challenges to be faced: materials procured from the market where we perform limited analysis, intermediates staying on stock or being traded intercompany, and in materials delivered to other processors but awaiting final analysis.
Knowledge of lean/process improvement methodologies.
Basic experience in chemicals and metallurgy.

Skills & Knowledge

Excellent analytical thinking and abstraction skills
Ability to deal with complex topics, large amounts of data, large calculations.
Autonomous, self-starter, able to identify and address priorities.
Good relationship skills, enabling to reach out and collaborate effectively with other functions throughout the organization (Group functions, parent company plant, other plants)
High interest in industrial and technical matters.

Education

Engineering degree, preferably Industrial Engineering or equivalent degree (process, chemical, )
MBA preferred.
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