▷ [Urgent] Financial Controller

Date: Jan 5, 2025

Location: Galway, G, IE

Job Title: Controller 1
Req ID: 121904
Remote Position: Hybrid
Hiring Manager: Ioana-Mariana Balint
Band: 11
Region: Europe
Country: Ireland
State/Province: Galway
City: Galway

Summary

By joining Celestica Galway (Ireland) as a Controller, you will play a pivotal role in delivering a fully automated, high-volume manufacturing line from development to full-scale production, producing world-class medical devices in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. You will coordinate, administer, and control financial operations focused on the industrial and health tech sectors.

Your next challenge will be to provide direct and indirect supervision to subordinate managers and employees. This includes long-term planning, objective setting, policy formation, interpretation and management while providing latitude and discretion to subordinates.

You will collaborate with other senior managers to establish strategic plans and objectives and have overall responsibility for planning, budgeting, implementing, and maintaining costs, methods, and personnel at a site. Your decisions will be crucial for the overall success of functional, divisional, or company operations. Furthermore, you will direct and control the activities of a broad functional area through several department managers. This includes assigning objectives, reviewing performance, approving employee compensation, and coaching for improved performance. You will regularly interact with executives and/or major customers, often in controversial situations, customer negotiations, or influencing and persuading other senior-level managers. You may also represent the organization at public speaking engagements and/or community events.

Detailed Description

Your day to day activities will include the following:

1. Collaborating with Operations to improve site business planning and decision making includes, but is not limited to, in-depth pricing and product analysis.
2. Providing revenue forecasting, variance analysis and key revenue metrics during budgeting, balance sheet analysis and cash flow variances.
3. Developing policies, procedures and business controls to provide work direction.
4. Ensuring coherence within the organization as far as compensation policies are concerned.
5. Managing the audit, compliance and external reporting processes.
6. Managing financial and accounting staff within the department. Staffing the department, assigning work, reviewing performance and addressing performance issues. Providing coaching, development and ensuring a productive work environment.
7. Acting as a liaison to state, insurance, banking and other external auditors.
8. Developing business controls and procedures to minimize or comply with audit recommendations, and is responsible for finance results.
9. Providing information to consultants responsible for external financial reporting.
10. Providing guidance to management on accounting policies and procedures.
11. Ensuring compliance with corporate policies and objectives.
12. Ensuring that non-finance functions are behaving within mentioned policies.
13. Driving the escalation path across functions and sites.
14. Managing special projects, with special regards to cross-functional and sites.

What do we offer?

- Market-competitive total reward: flexible salary, fixed and variable salary based on goals.
- The opportunity to become a key member of the new product introduction team in the Health Tech Quality function driven by innovation where creativity matters.
- Training and development opportunities, with us the sky is the limit.
- The opportunity to innovate, learn, mentor others and work toward your own vision of career success.
- A global, collaborative culture with strong leadership imperatives to foster your growth and professional opportunities.
- A sustainable culture where we provide opportunities for employees to give back to the community.

What do we expect from you?

In-depth knowledge and understanding of financial management, strong knowledge of global business environment and customers' business, good understanding of integrated business applications, good negotiation and problem resolution skills, and the ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers. Ability to effectively lead, manage, train and motivate a diverse group of employees. Ability to evaluate, prioritize and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion. In-depth knowledge of generally accepted accounting and financial principles and procedures. Ability to apply mathematical, statistical and financial operations to complete tasks and solve complex problems. Ability to prioritize tasks and complete duties while working with a large volume of detailed information under tight time deadlines, and present to management in terms of comprehensive summary. Ability to manage basic project management techniques.

Typical Experience

What are we looking for?

CPA, ACA, ACCA or similar qualification and 10+ years of post-qualification experience. A Level 8 degree or equivalent in Accountancy or Finance, with postgraduate qualifications considered if supported by relevant experience. Senior management experience in private equity, manufacturing, and Health Tech industries. Financial experience in public trading company.

Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law). At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Special arrangements can be made for candidates who need it throughout the hiring process. Please indicate your needs and we will work with you to meet them.

COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted. Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee-based recruitment services.

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