Plant Controller- Riverside CA

Join Sika, a global company established in 1910. Sika is a leading supplier of specialty chemical products and industrial materials serving construction and industrial markets. With subsidiaries in 100 countries around the world and in over 300 factories, Sika employs more than 25,000 people.

Sika is a full-building envelope company, helping you live your everyday life from below-grade waterproofing up to the roof. From the Staples Center to the Lincoln Memorial to the Empire State Building to Disneyland, Sika is extremely integrated in the world around us.

Sika is a continually growing company with a variety of locations that offer opportunities to advance through career development. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving diversity, equity, and inclusion culture.

Job Description

• Manage product costing, plant controlling and inventory control for multiple plants
• Work with department managers to develop short- and long-term financial goals.
• Utilize SAP and other reporting tools available to measure the performance.
• Track plant spending of expenses and investments against the budget/RPA, advise management, and recommend appropriate corrective action.
• Improve inventory accuracy by managing inventory control systems including cycle counts and physical inventories.
• Maintain records to document and explain variances.
• Manage all aspects of product costing standards for each factory.
• Implement systems and controls utilizing SAP to improve the financial performance at each facility.
• Measure, report and present monthly expense/variance results to local management and Corporate Controlling.
• Prepare and analyze manufacturing reports for cost center reporting, benchmark metrics, purchase price variance for raw materials, process order variances, work in process, inventory levels and turns, DOH, velocity, shipping costs, returns, obsolete inventory, labor costing, and capital assets.
• Make recommendations for corrective actions.
• Travel required up to 10% of the time.

Qualifications

Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Accounting, Finance, or a related filed plus five (5) years of financial management experience.

Must have at least three (3) years of experience with the following:

· CO modules of SAP.

• External audit experience.

Travel required up to 10-20% of the time.