Site Controller
About the Role
As Site Controller, you will serve as a key business partner to the leadership team, enabling informed decision-making through the delivery of accurate financial analysis, actionable insights, and strategic business recommendations. You will lead and coordinate the plant’s controlling processes, ensuring robust financial performance management, compliance, and operational transparency.
What You Will Do
Serve as a trusted finance business partner and strategic advisor to the Factory Management Team, providing guidance on financial performance, risks, and opportunities.
Lead the monthly financial closing process for the manufacturing site, ensuring full compliance with local statutory requirements and Essity policies, procedures, and reporting standards.
Ensure the accuracy and integrity of both financial and non-financial KPI reporting during period-end closing, forecasting, and performance review processes.
Analyze financial performance variances, identify key business drivers, and partner with site leadership.
Oversee capital expenditure (CAPEX) management and maintain ownership of plant assets, ensuring accurate valuation, compliance, and lifecycle management.
Lead and coordinate the annual budgeting, forecasting, and annual planning processes, providing insights to support informed business decision-making.
Provide functional leadership and direction to the plant’s Controlling and Accounting teams, driving capability development and operational excellence.
Actively participate in the Manufacturing Controlling Network, ensuring alignment with controlling standards.
Who You Are
7+ years of experience in Finance and Controlling within manufacturing environments managing complex product portfolios and high SKU volumes.
Proven track record of contributing to business strategy through process optimization, automation initiatives, and strong governance of accounting standards.
Solid expertise in cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end/year-end financial processes within manufacturing operations.
Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and data management tools.
Strong analytical mindset with demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
Ability to navigate ambiguity, assess risks, and provide sound business recommendations.
Proven ability to effectively manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
English proficiency at a B2 level or above.
At Essity, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and foster merit-based recruitment practices. We encourage applications from individuals with certified disabilities. All applicants are assessed fairly and objectively based on their experience, qualifications, and the skills required for the position.
We are also dedicated to providing reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees who may require them during the recruitment process and throughout their employment. Accommodations may include:
Accessible facilities and work environments
Flexible interview formats and assessment methods
Assistive technologies and accessibility tools
What We Can Offer You
Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-Being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere. Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us
Location
Rionegro, Antioquia
Application End Date:27 ago 2026Job Requisition ID:Essity264266Skills Required
- 7+ years of experience in Finance and Controlling within manufacturing environments
- Experience managing complex product portfolios and high SKU volumes
- Proven contribution to business strategy through process optimization and automation initiatives
- Strong governance of accounting standards
- Expertise in cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end/year-end financial processes within manufacturing operations
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and data management tools
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
- Ability to assess risks and provide sound business recommendations
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, multicultural environment
- English proficiency at B2 level or above
What We Do
Essity - a globally leading hygiene and health company, breaking barriers to well-being. Our expertise in hygiene and health began with the acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke in 1975, through which our roots stretch back to 1849. Today, our sustainable innovations from globally trusted brands, designed for everybody and every body, care for the well-being of 1 billion people in 150 countries every day. Working at Essity is not just a career but a chance to make the world healthier, safer, and more hygienic. Our barrier breakers innovate for good and contribute to shaping a sustainable future. At Essity, every career is as unique as the individual. We empower employees to excel together and reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose. We provide a sustainable work-life based on flexibility for both employees and employers. At Essity, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in everything we do. It is the key to our success in creating an inclusive, collaborative, and caring company culture where you can be you with us. Our purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being, is to enable customers and consumers to lead fuller lives at all stages of life. Our leading global brands include TENA, Tork, Actimove, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic, Vinda and Zewa. Essity has about 36,000 employees. Net sales in 2022 amounted to approximately SEK 156bn (EUR 15bn). The company’s headquarters is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. If you want to join a company where dedication to people is powered by innovation, welcome to Essity
