Job Opportunities in Czech Republic

Gunnebo is a multinational corporation owned by Altor Equity Partners AB and Stena Adactum ABand and headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden. It specialises in security products, services and solutions. The products appeal to both governments and business markets, and the company supplies to most major markets in the world.

Gunnebo Entrance Control is a global business that is the second largest player in its market and is headquartered in East Sussex, UK with a regional structure in place covering every continent in the world. The global business includes sales offices in Australia, Asia, Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America, Latin America and has manufacturing businesses in USA, China, Italy and Czech Republic.

The portfolio of the business includes speed gates, turnstiles and other entrance systems allowing entry to authorised individuals. These are used in mass transit public transport systems or at stadia to allow passage to only those people carrying a valid ticket. Entrance control is also used in airports to facilitate boarding and immigration control, and to prevent passengers gaining unlawful entry.

Job purpose:

The Senior Plant Controller will be focused primarily on our factory in Zlin, Czech Republic and report to the Global Finance Director Operations in support of the development of a newly formed Operations Finance team working with the other Plant Controllers. Responsible for driving performance management of Zlin Operations through key performance indicators and financial analysis/modelling. Compliance to company policies and procedures as well as local and Group statutory reporting requirements will also be a part of this role.
Key focus for this role is developing overall Operations Finance competence in Zlin and supporting other factories in reporting, business partnering and continuous improvement initiatives. Supporting the Finance Director Operations in day to day steer and coaching of the other Plant Controllers to standardise to best practices in Operations Controlling.
The successful candidate will be experienced in stakeholder management and be willing to challenge and advise in equal measure both local and Group management. Supporting enhancements to quality of data and analytics through appropriate decision support tools will enable this role to have real impact on the business as well as contribute to the Global standard for the ERP implementation in factories of the Dynamics 365 system.
The vision of Finance in Gunnebo Entrance Control is to achieve Best in Class service to internal and external stakeholders in line with the expansion of the business. Numerous change management activities are planned in the coming 24 months and support will be required to Restructuring and End to End Process Improvement activity for Order to Cash, Procure to Pay as well as improving the Net Working Capital improvement activities in Zlin and the other factories.
This will be a challenging but rewarding role for anyone with Operations Finance experience, taking a business through change and ensuring the Finance function plays a big part in shaping the future of the business. Long term opportunity for growth within this role exists for the right candidate as a potential successor to more senior Finance positions or moving into general management roles.

Principal accountabilities

Primarily this role will lead a number of projects and be focused on the overall elevation of performance of Operations and Product Development in Zlin factory including quality data driven decision making management information and other regular standard outputs to external and internal stakeholders

On top of this the day to day responsibilities include:

Operating as a highly effective and trusted business partner to the Plant Manager, Cominfo Controller and VP, Zlin Factory management and be a source of support and guidance for the other Plant Controllers
Demonstrating best practice as the most senior Operations Controlling expert in our factories and co-ordinating Best Practice methods of analysing Operational opportunities as well as metrics/KPI’s to monitor and steer business performance including Operations efficiencies, cost accounting, cost control, variance analysis, productivity improvement, efficiency improvements and driving the Net Working Capital improvement actions across the factories
Advising other Plant Controllers on improving their results as well as delivering on timely reporting and analysis and helping developing plant controllers on other sites with the Finance Director Operations
Deliver Zlin Budget and Forecasting outputs for and supporting other factories by challenging assumptions as well as contributing to the improvement of ongoing monitoring of performance of factories alongside the Finance Director Operations
Support the Central Finance function in deploying Finance Maturity development policies and procedures and act as a contributor of Operations Controlling considerations in projects for hands on feedback and input to the direction of improvements
Help develop the rest of the Operations Finance team to a high performing function building team spirit, skills and competences continuously across the global business under the steer of the Finance Director Operations
Drive continuous improvement in Operations Finance particularly in designing and implementing digital tools for reporting and process automation/streamlining to be piloted in Zlin and rolled out at other factories later
Collaborate with Regional Controllers and Group Finance on Global initiatives and standardised practices, sharing Best Practice and knowledge of operations strategies
Ensuring adherence to Group accounting policies and developing the internal financial controls framework and risk management process under the guidance of the Global Finance Business Partner
Design and implement new processes and policies where required to support the maturing of the Zlin Operations Finance and supporting others to achieve the same
Input to the blueprint of Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP system and BI tools in the factories to influence financial performance and improve processes
Maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders of the Zlin factory and gaining their commitment to support change and improvements
Some Global travel is anticipated to Gunnebo factories, supplier or customer sites in order to perform the role effectively
Other as hoc duties as required and as the role develops with the business growth
About Gunnebo Group

The Gunnebo Group is a global leader in security offering innovative products and services to protect and control the flow of people, and to safely secure valuables. Through our businesses Gunnebo Entrance Control and Gunnebo Safe Storage we offer solutions to customers in retail, public transport, public and commercial buildings, industrial and high-risk sites and banking. We operate worldwide through our 3,400 employees, 25 country locations and 10 production facilities to serve customers in over 100 markets. Together we create a safer world.

Gunnebo Entrance Control specializes in access control solutions enabling customers increased efficiency, safety and end-user experience. Our wide range of products are designed to create a safe environment without restricting freedom of movement, whether it is to enter the lobby of a company, a store, an entertainment area, an industrial area and public transport. We shape the future of people flow management.

Gunnebo Entrance Control is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our products so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.