Controller

Our people are the life of this company. Together, we build life into the kitchen.

We are a nationwide team, designing and manufacturing the most comprehensive choice of kitchen cabinets in the U.S. Our people pride themselves on genuine collaboration, working to deliver a seamless, integrated, quality experience to anyone and everybody. Our shared purpose is to bring the kitchen to life — the place where people spend such a meaningful part of their personal and family lives, and the true heart of any home. This is why your career with our company can be so satisfying, rewarding and worthwhile.

The Plant Controller is responsible for leading and supervising all plant accounting related tasks. They will develop a partnership with the Manufacturing Leadership team to support plant objectives and initiatives. Significant involvement in development and maintenance of standard costing process and systems with ongoing review of product cost/profitability. Committed to working in a team-oriented environment with a service attitude, providing financial information to operational areas, and actively participating in numerous ad-hoc projects.

This position is ON SITE at our Culver, IN manufacturing plant.

PRINCIPAL FUNCTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Direct financial and cost accounting support for entire facility.
• Serve as liaison for Division finance functions/needs and administer finance policies.
• Generation and review of daily, weekly, and monthly plant metrics, including labor, overhead, scrap and throughput variance analysis
• Month-end close responsibilities in the areas of labor entries and accruals, inventory reconciliations, material COS, overhead analysis, and transfer pricing. Ensure all accounting conforms with GAAP, company policy and Sarbanes-Oxley documentation
• Actively seek to improve systems which support financial closing, analyses, and needs of other departments.
• Provide support and guidance on development of plant product costs, annual operating plan, and periodic forecasts.
• Review and tracking of plant productivity projects coordinating with plant personnel on optimizing results.
• Inventory control in the WIP areas and providing support for physical inventories and perpetual transactions.
• Support development of plant capital budgets and development of individual capital authorization requests (coordinating with plant management).
• Support building operations on inventory accuracy.
• Ad-hoc projects and analysis.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Five or more years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Minimum 3 years supervisory experience in a cost accounting position. Ability to build a strong team – and contribute to the growth and development and others.
• Must have knowledge of Microsoft Office, Access, and standard cost / inventory systems.
• Must possess a sense of urgency and have a great work ethic.
• Strong project management experience.
• Ability to interact with all levels of associates and work in a team environment.
• Good planning and organizational skills combined with good written and oral communication skills.
• Must be dependable and trustworthy.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Prior Plant accounting experience
• Familiarity with Oracle