**Job Details**
At Johnson Controls, we are passionate about making a positive impact on the lives of people all over the world. How do we do this? By working together on holistic solutions for smarter buildings and cities today and tomorrow. By protecting people and the environment. By giving back in the communities we live in. By solving today’s challenges while constantly asking ‘what’s next?’ So, what’s next in your future?
**What will you do**:
The position will be responsible to drive the role that Finance as a function plays in the Sales and Operations execution / planning process at the Plant level. This role will be the key business partner with Operations, Sales, Procurement, and the rest of the Finance organization ensuring the S&OE;/P policies and procedures are followed and that all considerations are incorporated into the financial plans. This includes managing an effective communication with the Executive Team of the risks, opportunities and implications of the decisions made during the regular S&OE;/P process. The position reports to the Finance S&OE; COE Director with hard dotted line to the PBU Finance Operations Director and or CFO
**How you will do it**:
- Accountable to drive the S&OE;/P process from a Finance perspective including actively participating in the different weekly process meetings (i.e., Demand / Supply / Executive reviews)
- Partner with the Sales and Operations leaders in validating the completeness, granularity, and reasonability of the demand plan at the unit and dollar level
- Analyze and align with Ops the production constraints and their impact to the material plan, incorporate capacity constraints into material buy plan
- Participate in reconciliation of the Demand signal vs. the Production plan and Purchase plan validating the completeness, granularity, and reasonability
- Incorporate into the financial scenarios (i.e., PLAN / Outlook etc.) the outcome of the regular S&OE;/P process and establish targets that are consistent with the expected business outcome
- Approve purchase orders for material ordered not consistent with the approved purchase plan
- Manage discussions and evaluations to find opportunities to reduce the finish goods and drive action plans
- Partner with the inventory planning team to drive actions to deliver the monthly DIOH targets
- Prepare monthly reports / metrics related to the Finance S&OE; process at the plant level
- Active involvement in preventing inventory obsolesce and in driving actions with the rest of the functional teams
- Develop decision tree logics for the inventory obsolesce provisions (i.e., Can we sell to an aftermarket supplier /marketing run a promotion / material be re-worked / write off)
- Develop effective control procedures to improve the Finance S&OE;/P process
- Proactively identifies end to end S&OE;/P process opportunities and corrective actions and works with the relevant team in their implementation
**What we look for**
- BS Degree in Finance/Accounting or equivalent
- 10+ years progressive finance and accounting experience in Manufacturing environments
- Experience working with Operations preferably in the Sales and Operations execution and planning processes
- Outstanding ability to communicate, motivate, partner with business operation leaders, and work cross functionally and drive results in a highly matrixed global organization
- Ability to travel to locations as business conditions dictate; Estimate 10%.
- Software skills: MS Project and MS Office, SAP, HFM and OneStream preferred
- MBA / CPA are preferred
- Johnson Controls does not request pregnancy or HIV testing as a requirement for admission, permanence or promotion._