What are the responsibilities and job description for the Plant Controller position at Vaco by Highspring?
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manages the financial planning and analysis of the Operations division including the capital budget, preparation of annual operations budgets, monthly forecasts, and reports that identify variances, describe and analyze the nature of the variances, recommend corrective action to be taken to improve financial performance.
- Partners with manufacturing leaders and other departments to ensure the accurate costing of products; drives accountability for maintaining inventory accuracy.
- Recommends and develops costing systems, processes and procedures; manages operations accounting staff in monitoring cost and related financial systems for identification of, and recommendations for, procedural and processing improvements required for effective operational support.
- Reviews costing standards; monitors relevance of standards to actual environment; recommends periodic adjustments of standards.
- Manages activities related to inventory control including physical inventories; develops and implements policies, procedures and processes for physical counts, reconciliation, and adjustments to inventory records.
- Initiates and manages studies and analyses to determine cost drivers of business activities including raw material purchase price variances, manufacturing variances, loss variance.
- Develops procedures to calculate, monitor, and update labor and overhead rates for process/product costing; develops management reports specifying and comparing factors affecting product costs and related profitability.
- Manages a timely month end close process and accurate month end reporting. Responsible for ensuring the integrity of financial reporting.
- Consolidates and reports key financial measurements monthly, quarterly, and year-to-date for benchmarking and managing performance.
- Develops forecasting approach, and key metrics to develop an overall operational cost forecast in support of company forecasts.
- Responsible for ensuring that all operations related internal controls meet corporate guidelines.
- May perform other financial analysis in support of strategic initiatives as required by the Vice President Finance or Vice President of Operations.
Qualifications/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance and a minimum of ten years accounting and financial experience. Experience in a manufacturing environment, three years managerial experience preferred; CPA/MBA a plus.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries ("we," "our," or "Vaco by Highspring") respects your privacy and are committed to providing transparent notice of our policies.
- California residents may access Vaco by Highspring HR Notice at Collection for California Applicants and Employees here.
- Virginia residents may access our state specific policies here.
- Residents of all other states may access our policies here.
- Canadian residents may access our policies in English here and in French here.
- Residents of countries governed by GDPR may access our policies here.
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
