FP&A Ops Lead - M&S Americas

FP&A Ops Lead - M&S Americas
You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As an FP&A Ops Lead - M&S Americas, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human.

About the job:
As part of the FP&A Operations Manufacturing & Supply organization, you will lead capital and operating expenditure financial operations for manufacturing sites across the Americas. Reporting to the Head of FP&A Operations Americas, you will strengthen reporting accuracy, forecasting reliability and financial governance while partnering with Manufacturing, Finance Business Partners and Site Controllers to support sound decisions and operational efficiency.

• Lead initiatives that advance our brands and strengthen our reputation worldwide.
• Mentor and uplift emerging talent while pushing your own growth and influence.
• Put purpose into practice — embedding sustainability, access and social impact into every decision.
• Model the challenger mindset: question complexity, act with integrity and make things radically simple.
• Help shape a culture that’s ambitious, collaborative and serious about recognition and belonging.

Main responsibilities:
• Lead monthly closing activities for manufacturing expenses and capital investments, including variance analysis, accruals, provisions, prepaid expenses, capitalization and related balance sheet reviews.
• Lead budget, forecast and rolling forecast cycles for capital and operating expenditure, consolidating assumptions and validating spending plans with site finance partners.
• Build and maintain forecasts, identify financial risks and opportunities, and support long-range planning and scenario analysis for manufacturing investments and cost optimization.
• Oversee capital investment governance by monitoring project execution, approved budgets, timelines, capitalization milestones, financial performance and return-on-investment indicators.
• Partner with Manufacturing Site Controllers and cross-functional teams across the Americas, providing actionable insights, challenging assumptions and supporting investment and expense reviews.
• Prepare management reporting and industrial performance analysis, ensuring consistent and reliable data across financial systems and reporting tools.
• Develop dashboards and analytical tools while advancing process standardization, automation, simplification, data governance and continuous improvement across the region.

About you:
• Experience in finance, controlling, financial planning and analysis, cost accounting or manufacturing finance, with practical exposure to capital expenditure management, industrial controlling or supply chain finance.
• Strong understanding of capital expenditure accounting, fixed assets, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, internal controls and financial governance.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, strong SAP knowledge, and experience with planning and forecasting tools such as TM1.
• Working knowledge of Power BI, Power Query or comparable data visualization tools, with the ability to develop clear reporting and analytical solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, business partnering and stakeholder management skills, with clear communication and presentation capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Industrial Engineering or a related field.
• Fluent English and Spanish, written and spoken. Portuguese or French is a plus.

This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you. We are challengers. We are Opella.
Opella values diversity in all its forms and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can belong and excel. We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

About Us:
Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally.
Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.
At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan.
As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.

About Opella.

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting.

At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers.

Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. B Corp certified in multiple markets, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet.

Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com.