Job Description Summary
Managing and executing manufacturing finance activities, including P&L, balance sheet, cost accounting, inventory controls, and functional costs.
Job Description
Looking to make a global impact and solve problems?
Through relentless innovation and continuous collaboration with our customers, GE Gas Power, part of GE Vernova, is providing more advanced, cleaner, and efficient power that people depend on today and building the energy technologies of the future.
What impact you’ll make:
As a Gas Power Global Supply Chain member, the Steam and HRSG Value Stream & Birr factory Finance Manager – Right hand is the key finance partner for the six-manufacturing site of Changwon (Korea), Dongquat (Vietnam), Berlin (Germany), Elblag (Poland), Karlovac (Croatia) and Birr (Switzerland). These manufacturing sites have ~2.9M hours of annual production. This role has oversight over ~$260M of gross production costs, ~$260M inventory and ~$350M CAPEX while driving key performance indicators including labor productivity, utilization and indirect costs per hour (utilities, supplies & tooling, maintenance).
Job Description:
What you’ll do
- Act as deputy to the Steam and HRSG Value Stream & Birr factory Finance Manager and serve as a key business partner to the Value Stream Operations Leader.
- Partners with Factory Leaders to set Value Stream specific strategy around Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC) focused on driving costs & cash optimization, support Birr factory Lean Roadmap execution.
- Enhance manufacturing finance activities and rhythms, including planning, pacing, monthly operating reviews (MOR), and closing.
- Leverage the FP&A function to provide VS- and Birr factory level financials and variance analysis to the VS Operations Leader and reconcile action plans with associated risks and opportunities.
- Partner with Supply Chain Operations Finance COE team leaders to ensure a consistent and standardized level of support for the SVS and HRSG factories.
- Lead efforts to operationalize Bowler KPIs in Birr, including labor utilization, labor productivity (PCO), OCPH $/hours and indirect costs, while supporting change management initiatives related to standard tool implementations at other VS factories.
- Evaluate short- and long-term strategic site reinvestment initiatives, including Capacity Phases II and IV, to ensure delivery of project-level return on investment (ROI), and develop impact analyses on future bill rates, product costs, and factory cost structure.
- Drive culture of LEAN and standardization across Global Supply Chain (GSC) delivering high impact financial analytics and controls that drives operational accountability.
- Support the Site Finance Managers to provide insights and transparency to actual costs, aligning site roadmap to develop pipeline to improve or control total cost per unit and bill rates.
- Birr factory C&B planning & pacing inputs & assumptions (HR & Ops) includes Workforce and capacity calculation, support monthly update sessions.
- Support major site initiatives for Birr like Smartshop, MRO transformation.
- Partner with Site Finance Managers and local Controllership teams to ensure factory and legal entity compliance and strengthen plant-level controls.
- Ad hoc requests and initiatives, such as make vs. buy analytics.
What you’ll bring (Basic Qualifications)
- Prior domain expertise in supply chain finance
- Established leadership experience, proven ability to present complex information clearly and effectively to senior leadership
- Knowledge of accounting policies and practices, including standard costing, inventory, and fixed assets
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
What will make you stand out
- Prior system ERP experience: SAP Powermax
- Working knowledge of visualization software: Tableau, Power BI
- Established project management skills, including relevant experience leading complex initiatives cross functionally
- Embrace GE Vernova Way, driving innovation, serving customers, embracing LEAN, winning as one team, and accountable to deliver
Additional Notes:
- Location: Budapest, Hungary
Benefits Available to You
GEV employees rise to the challenge of building a world that works. To meet this mission, we provide varied, competitive benefits to help support our workforce.
- Our compensation & benefits are designed to help you manage your personal and family needs, while rewarding high performers. We offer a robust benefits package depending on your employment status and your national requirements.
- A healthy, balanced lifestyle can mean different things to different people. We've created programs that support the way you live and work today.
- GEV invests to provide opportunities to grow your career by providing a path for continued on-the-job learning and development.
Inclusion & Diversity
At GEV, we believe in the value of your unique identity, background and experiences. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture, where everyone feels empowered to do their best work because they feel accepted, respected and that they belong.
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No