TX-R-31,TX-R-31 / Specialist: Finance

Main Duties:
•    Initiates, decides, controls and enforces all Headcount/Costs requirements and budgets for Direct Labour and Manufacturing Overheads.
•    Set up monitor and manage Departmental Budgets both operationally and Project related.
•    Ensure compliance of the team to the various business processes and JMS system requirements.
•    Establishes Long Term Budgets (LUP, LIP).
•    Establish Strategic targets regarding Loading, Costs and Productivity.
•    Oversight of Line Balancing and Manpower planning.
•    Establish objectives, projects and plans to improve cost and labour productivity.
•    Enforces all cost and labour productivity targets.
•    Is on a day-by-day basis interactive in the technology and neighbouring departments to support primary targets (i.e. On time Delivery, Volume and budget, Quality).
•    Break down of the T-targets (linked to On Time Delivery, KOVP, volume targets, Budget and headcount) to the T-R-xxx targets within the yearly target commitment process.
•    Introduction of New systems in accordance with international norms with regards to Productivity control and visualization.
•    Makes internal as well as external agreements about efficiency with process partners and projects across, Logistics, Painted Body, Finance, Purchasing and Quality.
•    New Product Launches/Project Involving Line Balancing and Productivity and Headcount requirements.
•    Resource Evaluation and Allocation under changing business requirements through local and international influences.
•    Ensure development of the role of Coach within the technology environment.
•    Key support for FK Prop, and complete Direct headcount planning with the groups central planning functions (TP and TI) for introductions of new model launches.

Employment Equity Plan:
•    Monitor EEP project in core.
•    Interaction with plant project team regarding goals and project related issues.
•    Representing core in plant team meetings to provide all required feedback
•    To support Company and Departmental objectives.

Education
•    Degree in Industrial Engineering/Finance or any related qualifications.

Work experience, Leadership experience:

• A minimum of 3 year of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of management system requirements.
• A high degree of knowledge of strategic management and business planning.
• Strong network within Plant Rosslyn and to the central TP-x functions and the wider BMW group.
• Highly developed interpersonal / communication skills.
• Ability to present / influence at all levels.
• Project and budget management skills.
• Workshop design and facilitation skills.
• Experience of working cross functionally and within different cultures.
• A high degree of computer literacy.

Competence:
•    Competence for capacity planning and decision coordination towards the management circle of the technology.
•    Competence for the development of steering models and processes for capacity flexibility, and for the creation of appropriate guidelines for the other departments towards the management circle of the technology.
•    Competence for the control of all operational key performance indicators of the technology at the production site (proportional costs, launch-, fix and special costs) and to carry out operational evaluations in the OtD and ItO processes towards the head of respective technology.