Plant Controller

WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE IN THIS ROLE:

• Serve as a highly visible key business partner and support to the plant manager for our flagship lean manufacturing facility.
• Drive productivity, inventory reduction, insights on plant performance and identify opportunities for improvement and managing internal controls.
• Utilize deep understanding of COGS, provide scenarios to Operations for improvement.
• Identify the cost pool with opportunities for improvement, validate savings and keep operations team on track.
• Understand and communicate spend drivers and future impact to business decisions.
• Lead weekly/monthly reviews of spend/hours, preparation of month-end closing entries and plant performance reports, provide plant variance analysis.
• Lead the annual budget and forecasts for the plant.
• Perform annual cost roll and related analytics.
• Understand inventory levels, highlighting opportunities and risk, provide inventory, DIOH, cycle count and E&O analysis and support the team to drive improvement.
• Support capital projects through review of Plant Capital equipment request, providing capital analysis, communicating with project owner and controllership team to close out.
• Partner with SIOP team to understand latest orders trend vs demand planning.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders (i.e. Internal Audit, FP&A, and more).

YOU HAVE:

• Ideally, an academic background in Accounting, Finance or business related major. Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years’ experience in or with managing plant financials, with a deep knowledge of cost accounting and standard cost roll-out.
• Proficient in SAP; advanced skills in Excel.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to manage workload and meet deadlines with efforts to streamline processes.