EF Manufacturing Cost & Coverage Controller / Improvement Lead

Introduction to the job

Do you want to be part of progress? And do you want to work in a dynamic international environment? In the ASML Finance department we are responsible for all financial, economic and fiscal affairs. If you want to be part of a high performing team with a focus on enabling the success of ASML, we invite you to read the job description below and let us know if you are the person we are looking for.
 

As an EF Manufacturing Cost & Coverage Controller / Improvement Lead, you act as a strong partner for the finance organization. You add value by providing timely historical and forward-looking financial plans and insights to enable high-quality decision-making. You pursue world-class results by improving business performance management processes and performing high-quality analyses. In addition to these activities, you focus on enhancing processes and driving continuous improvement to generate high-quality insights that enable more efficient and effective decision-making.
 

Role and responsibilities

As Manufacturing Controller EF Manufacturing Cost & Coverage Controller / Improvement Lead, you have the following responsibilities:

• Delivering business insights on production performance and factory coverage, with a focus on production variances and the allocation of overhead, labor, and facility costs to production work orders.
• Own and drive the GMF Manufacturing improvement roadmap, delivering process enhancements, standardization, and operational excellence.
• Lead a small team responsible for creating transparency and reporting in these areas.

In your role you:

• Identify, communicate, and monitor financial risks and opportunities, and translate them into executable actions aimed at improving business performance, mainly in the area of OPEX coverage and production work orders.
• Take a proactive role in preparing and managing the business line’s long-term financial plan, global annual budget cycle, and monthly financial reviews, ensuring high-quality planning information in terms of relevance, content, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Drive continuous improvement by initiating and executing changes together with subject matter experts involved in the processes, enhancing the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of financial planning information, tools, processes, analysis, and organization.
• You lead a small team responsible for operational activities within the Global Manufacturing domain, driving continuous improvement initiatives to enhance processes, strengthen capabilities, and elevate the team's overall performance and impact.
• Compare actual production results and factory coverage with standards, and investigate which offsetting P&L accounts may also be impacted.
• Collaborate with and challenge other teams to achieve high-quality standards.

Education and experience

• Master’s degree in Business Economics, preferably followed by an RC, RA, CPA, or ACCA qualification.
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in a Finance environment.
• Experience leading a small team.
• Experience with management reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Extensive experience in managing complex financial processes, planning applications (SAP preferred), and related tools such as SAP BW, SAC, and BI reporting.
• Preferably experience in a high-tech environment within an international public group, with a proven track record of quickly understanding complex content.

Skills

• Excellent communication and analytical skills, with the ability to influence without hierarchical power and creativity in managing a large and diverse range of stakeholders.
• A Lean and continuous improvement mindset, with a proactive drive for improvement.
• Maintain personal effectiveness and people focus under pressure, at a high speed of change, and in uncertainty.
• Willingness to understand SAP and reporting logic (Spotfire / BW) and perform deep dives to investigate bottlenecks or improvement areas.
• Ability to guide and advise at all organizational levels to effect sustainable change and improve the process maturity level of the finance organization.
• Team player, enjoys working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams with the ability to work independently;
• Own quality and be guided by awareness of customer impact.
• Hands-on mentality / getting things done.
• Multi-cultural awareness

Other information

The position reports to the BI&C Global Manufacturing lead who creates the conditions that enable you to realize your full potential. We provide state-of-the-art facilities, opportunities to develop your talents, international career opportunities, a stimulating and inspiring environment, and most of all, the commitment of a company that recognizes and rewards outstanding performance.

Skills Tags:

Finance, Manufacturing Control / Accounting, Continuous Improvement, Lean

Inclusion and diversity:

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity are driving forces in the success of our company.

Inclusion and diversity

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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