Operations & Strategic Sourcing Finance Leader – Responsable Finance, Opérations & Achats Stratégiques

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Switzerland, +4 more countries.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with global Operations and Strategic Sourcing leadership to establish financial priorities, productivity objectives, and improvement strategies.

• Oversee consolidated financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting for both operations and sourcing.

• Implement standardized manufacturing finance practices, covering product costing, labor and overhead absorption, variance analysis, and operational performance reporting.

• Offer functional support to site finance leaders throughout the manufacturing network.

• Link sales and operations planning metrics to financial results.

• Enhance visibility and accountability regarding manufacturing productivity and its cost drivers.

• Assist in supplier negotiations, develop category strategies, initiate cost reduction efforts, and improve supplier payment terms.

• Create sourcing savings methodologies and confirm realized benefits.

• Conduct cost benchmarking and should-cost analyses in collaboration with Sourcing and Engineering.

• Evaluate commodity risks, inflation, tariffs, and supplier vulnerabilities, while supporting mitigation strategies.

• Direct financial assessments for capacity expansions, automation, and significant capital expenditure initiatives.

• Analyze footprint optimization, localization, make-versus-buy decisions, and supplier transitions.

• Enhance inventory turnover and minimize excess, obsolete, and slow-moving stock.

• Support inventory control and valuation standards.

• Examine freight, warehousing, and distribution expenses.

• Aid in the integration and synergy realization across Power Transmission operations.

• Streamline and automate operational and sourcing analytics.

• Lead and mentor the Operations and Sourcing Finance team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

• Significant progressive experience in finance and proven leadership within manufacturing, operations, or sourcing finance.

• Experience supporting a complex global manufacturing environment.

• Strong grasp of factory economics, product costing, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption.

• Proficiency in operational performance analysis, including manufacturing variances, productivity metrics, inventory management, cost of poor quality, and working capital optimization.

• In-depth knowledge of sourcing finance, covering procurement economics, supplier negotiations, commodity exposure, savings validation, and total cost assessment.

• Experience in evaluating capital investments, capacity expansions, automation initiatives, footprint modifications, and make versus buy strategies.

• Proven success in collaborating with operational leaders to achieve measurable enhancements in cost competitiveness, margins, and cash flow generation.

• Capability to establish consistent financial methodologies and performance metrics across various sites and product lines.

• Experience in leading direct teams and providing functional guidance within a matrix organization.

• Background in driving standardization, automation, and process improvements across finance and operational teams.

• Strong analytical judgment alongside excellent communication skills.

• Solid awareness of financial controls.

• Collaborative leadership style with experience in talent development.

• Professional accounting qualification or advanced degree, along with experience in electrical equipment manufacturing and exposure to Lean or acquisition integration, would be beneficial.

• If contracted in Italy: EU work permit required.

• Proficiency in English and/or Italian.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote position.

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No.