Plant Controller

Job Description

Position Summary

The purpose of this position is to act as a business partner to the Plant Manager, directing the finance function at a manufacturing facility. This position reports to the Plant Manager with a strong dotted line to the Business Unit. Key responsibilities include direct the operation of Information Systems, Procurement and Accounting to provide adequate manufacturing systems, with additional responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Identifying key levers to drive business improvement and providing leadership to ensure implementation of business improvement opportunities
• Determine, in conjunction with plant management, targeted goals for performance measures of quality, productivity, delivery, cycle time, inventory optimization and profitability
• Deploying business unit initiatives
• Forecasting, planning and analyzing business results
• Complying with business unit financial reporting requirements
• Coordination of the capital appropriation process and post-project reviews
• Ensuring completion of client’s Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for internal controls
• Supervising department employees
  
  

The Role

• Enterprise-minded understands the needs of the business and how decisions affect P&L, balance sheet and future capabilities, influences cap-ex based on broad business case
• Responsive expertise prepared with information to help guide decision making both upon request and future planning based
• Compliance organized and aware of legal and local ramifications to decisions and practices; proactively prepared for audits
• Data-oriented anticipates and solves problems from a data-informed perspective; forecasts accurately and tracks closely; intervenes in ways that influence numbers
• Involved and curious spends time on the shop floor to understand business in greater detail; seeks to make improvements and strengthen partnerships through relationship and comprehension; understands operational consequences of decisions
• Analysis reviews decisions and data ex post facto to glean increased understanding; incorporates learning into future decision-making
• Accountability compares business case to actual performance and collaborates with other leaders to ensure success of investments
• Interpretation and translation able to tell a story with the data; brings life to the numbers through observation and familiarity with the business
• Prioritization understands market and organizational conditions and prioritizes efforts; accordingly, manages tension between revenue and costs, etc.
• Communication proactively provides information about data, forecasting and financials to enable best possible decision-making for individual leaders and the organization; seeks information from others and disseminates accordingly as a conduit or hub
• Coach formally and informally develops others and contributes to talent factory strategy
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
• Must have 5-10 years of experience in accounting or finance, within a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of standard cost accounting, and month end close
  
  

Tech Search Pros and this client are equal opportunity employers. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status

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