Vie Purchasing Squeeze Controller

**Faurecia?**

Faurecia is an Equal Opportunity Employer

New trends and expectations are reshaping the automotive industry. Inspired by the exciting new challenges associated with this revolution, Faurecia anticipates the future of mobility developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. If you are willing to contribute and create value for tomorrow’s cleaner and smarter mobility, Faurecia is the place to be

**Faurecia’s VIE Program?**

The VIE Program of Faurecia is an international young graduate program, which enables young graduates native from the European Economic Area (EU + Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland) aged between 18 and 28 to work for one of our subsidiary around the world

PLEASE NOTE: as part of your international development, you cannot perform a VIE in the country of your citizenship.

**Your position and environment?**

Our **Faurecia Automotive Seating Business Group - Seat Structure Systems Division** is looking for you as a **(Purchasing) Squeeze Controller (M/F/d) for our site** **in Hannover, Germany**.**

**Your role and responsibilities?**

The role of a Purchasing Controller is to manage the financial aspects of the Purchasing operations in order to guarantee their reliability, consistency and transparency.

The Controller oversees Purchasing financial issues, including budgeting, month-end reporting, rolling forecasts and Mid Term Plan.

He/She is the Financial representative (as a Support function) in the Purchasing teams which means he/she is in charge of controlling that the Financials basics rules on one hand, the Faurecia policies instructions on the other hand are always followed and applied.

**Main missions**:
The main missions of the role are to:

- Ensure that the Purchase prices information are consistent with the Faurecia policies, correctly and regularly updated in the systems by the Purchasing teams
- Ensure as a Financial representative the reliability of the Purchasing reporting and its consistency with the Financial figures
- Manage data consolidation at Division level
- Identify and analyse the variances between the budgeted, forecasted and actual results
- Assist the Global Commodity Directors in a better understanding of the impacts of the Purchasing actions
- Ensure that raw material impacts are well identified and passed on to the customers
- Manage Squeeze reporting (Squeeze = Sales variances + Purchasing variances)

**Who are you?**
- Business School or Engineering background / Master's degree in Finance
- Strong curiosity for new knowledge
- Computer literate and good knowledge of IT systems
- Open minded /Business minded
- Minimum English level required (C1)