Plant Controller

Detailed Responsibilities:

• MANAGEMENT: Manages and guides the accounting staff who are responsible for financial reporting and analysis, costing, inventory control, billing, collections, and payables in both US and Mexico.
• REPORTING: Responsible for the preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements and related analysis comparing results with budget, forecasts and prior period, while ensuring deadlines and performance standards are met.
• CONTROLS: Responsible for monitoring compliance with all corporate policies and procedures, enhancing internal controls, and adherence to IFRS including compliance with local, state and federal reporting responsibilities. Will be an ITAR Officer for CAID.
• MANAGEMENT PRESENTATIONS: Prepare monthly and quarterly business review packages and related analysis to support management presentations, identifying areas of opportunities and risks.
• FINANCIAL PLANNING: Own the financial planning and forecasting process, building both the quarterly, annual and long-range financial plans and targets that are aligned with strategic objectives. Drive an efficient and effective process for developing financial budgets including timeline, budget templates and preparing budget deliverables while engaging with internal stakeholders.
• OPERATIONAL/COMMERCIAL ANALYSIS: Provide the CAID Director of Operations with a full view and understanding of historical financial performance and forecasted results. Interface with internal and external stakeholders and monitor performance against plan, conduct customer, product line, production and ROI analysis interpreting results, trends, variances and identifying areas of improvement impacting sales, operating profit, cost savings, working capital, SRED credit submissions, etc.. 
• REVENUE RECOGNITION: Recognize revenue using percentage of completion in adherence to IFRS 15.
• COSTING: For projects, review, and update project EAC’s and ETC’s, comparing bid margins to expected margins.  Work with Engineering and Operations to test assumptions and variances and develop recovery plans where necessary.  For bid proposal submissions, ensure costing is supportable and accurate.    Focus on direct and indirect costs, understanding fixed and variable overheads including monthly variance analysis.
• ERP SYSTEMS: Understand ERP systems including experience with ERP conversions onto a common platform.
• GROWTH SUPPORT: Understand key business drivers for long-term sustainable growth, as well as develop predictive analytics and tools to support the portfolio in achieving profitable growth.
• DECISION SUPPORT: Review capital projects for conceptual and financial soundness.  Develop ad-hoc modeling and analysis to support business decisions.  Partner with cross-functional teams to develop tools that provide critical financial and operational information and KPIs.
• TEAM: Develop, mentor and guide the activities of the accounting team.  Motivate and manage the workloads of direct reports; assist with learning and professional development.
• RELATIONSHIPS: Build great working relationships with all internal stakeholders (sales, operations, purchasing) including corporate teams and interface with internal/external stakeholders.
• SPECIAL PROJECTS: Any other special projects as deemed necessary.
• TRAVEL: Willingness and ability to travel between plants based on business needs.

Qualifications:

• University Graduate with a degree in Accounting/Finance and MBA and/or CPA designation; excellent knowledge of IFRS
• 5-7 years of progressive FP&A, costing and operational finance management experience
• Experience in a multi-site manufacturing environment with percentage of completion revenue recognition is required
• Progressive managerial experience is required, with strong people and project management skills
• Excellent leadership, team building, and interpersonal skills 
• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills along with superior financial reporting, planning and modeling skills, coupled with sharp business acumen
• Ability to set priorities, meet deadlines, and multi-task in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
• Solid self-starter and collaborator who understands and can articulate key drivers of the business and can prioritize efforts and resources accordingly, and has a history of leading improvement initiatives that have driven successful results
• Solid understanding and demonstrated experience with ERP and reporting systems, as well as Microsoft Office and other software programs, including advanced knowledge of Excel
• Excellent written and oral communication skills are required
• Bilingual in Spanish is an asset

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

This job description is not intended to be all inclusive, and the employee will also perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by immediate supervisor and other management, as required. Staffing of positions to be determined by the company.