.*position title: finance lead*location*:acuna plant*reports to*: plant controllerlead in coordination with plant controller to ensure that finance department contributes effectively towards the achievement of organizational financial goals and objectives by ensuring that prudent financial management systems and processes are applied in addition providing timely, relevant accurate financial information such as planning, forecasting, balance, p&l, costing, inventory control and economic outlook.*responsibilities*:- leadership and capacity building_- leads and overall oversight of the finance department and provides consistent leadership to department personnel through regular meetings, effective objective setting, delegation, and communication.- conducts regular training to the team on financial policies and procedures and best practices.- leads and participates in special projects that further the goals of the finance department.- maintains the highest level of confidentiality regarding discussions and decisions made by senior management and takes all required actions to ensure that staff adhere to these requirements.- encourage all members of the company to make all expenses, purchases, and requisitions in accordance with the guidelines established in newell policy.- operations finance_- monitor the day-to-day financial operations within the company.- oversees the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and report.- ensures that financial reports are reviewed and submitted in a timely manner.- lead annual budget development process.- review project budgets and monitor project expenditure in line with budget by maintaining a budget tracking.- participate in strategic data analysis, research, and forecasting modeling for company leadership.- support project analysis, validation of plans, and ad-hoc requests.- analyze and coordinate activities associated with operations performance on site.- manage the company's financial accounting, monitoring, and reporting systems.- contribute as an active member in site projects that promote process/cost improvements- coordinate changes in master templates with local operations.- be responsible for the resins buying and selling process to be carried out correctly.- material costing_- lead the annual material costing process- provide detailed product costing analysis and support in the evaluation of product costs (raw and manufacturing material).- coordinate with engineers' team to resolve and correct costing issues.- respond on time to pricing/commercial controlling requests.- establish close communication with procurement team to ensure that material prices are projected correctly in any analysis- fixed assets _- work with site engineers from the stage of evaluating capital proposals up until value realization/capitalization.- monitor capital expenditures necessary to strengthen the installed capacity of the plant