Country Switzerland
City Zofingen
Functional Area Finance
Job Group Corporate Accounting
Employment Type Permanent Contract
Working time Full-time
At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.
Your role
We are looking for a passionate and detail-oriented Financial Controller who is straight forward thinking and likes to work in a great team at our Headquarters in Zofingen. In this position you primarily focus on ensuring that internal as well as customer projects are financially viable, and variances are within reason and substantiated. In addition to project activities, you will be involved in various activities to ensure the financial success of the manufacturing plant Zofingen, Siegfried's largest and most complex site.
Key Activities
- Act as the key sparring partner for the Project Management Team by providing timely, reliable and insightful financial information to support cost control in customer projects
- Provide transparency on financial impacts through structured reporting of major deviation drivers to ensure the plant leaders determine the correct path to excellence and performance improvement
- Support the main financial processes: month-end close including financial reporting, S&OP and forecasting exercises, and annual budget as well as support of analyses of operational variances and profitability changes for the plant Zofingen
- Support standard costs calculations and associated analyses including bridges
- Support financial process optimization within the plant and contribute to path to controlling excellence in Zofingen
- Interaction with key group functions such as FP&A, Reporting, and Financial Accounting
- Support OPEX initiatives with sound financial analysis and development of KPIs
- Support capital investment analysis including development of business cases and ensuring proper accounting compliance and business case follow up
- Ad hoc analyses including global initiatives as requested
Your profile
- Degree in Finance, Controlling, Accounting or Business Administration
- SAP CO & PS in-depth knowledge, including cost center accounting, product costing, and profitability analysis
- In depth experience of standard costing, absorption costs and variance analysis
- Detail oriented, strong analytical and communication skills
- 3-5 years operational controlling experience
- Business Warehouse knowledge
- Power-BI knowledge or similar analytics platforms are a plus
- Flexible, Self-starter and independent worker
- Fluency in German and good level of English
Why you can expect more from us
- Flexible working hours, allowing you to balance family, leisure, and work
- Competitive salary and bonus
- Central location, close to train station, with excellent public transport connections
- Health insurance discounts of up to 10% on supplementary insurance for you and your partner/family through our partners
- Child allowance: Siegfried AG increases the child allowance by 10% above the cantonal legal rate
- Opportunities for individual further training by arrangement
- Reka money: Siegfried AG offers a 20% discount on Reka money for employees
- Attractive pension fund with customizable contribution options
- On-site staff restaurant/cafeteria with meals at preferential rates
Working at Siegfried
Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.
Who we are
In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe
The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model.
The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production.
We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.
What we do in Zofingen
Zofingen is the hub of the Siegfried Group. The production facility at our Zofingen headquarters supplies our customers around the globe with exemplary Swiss quality. The Siegfried company is a popular employer in the Zofingen region, where we meet our social responsibility by training apprentices.
Main activities
- Development and commercial manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and corresponding intermediates
- Fully compliant with cGMP and SHE (Safety, Health and Environmental) standards
Special features
- Manufacture of high potency active ingredients in development and production
- Micronization in development and production
Strategic importance
- Contract manufacturing of new active ingredients