Plant Controller

Description

The Plant Controller plays a key role in helping to drive the organization to achieve strategic and plan objectives. The Plant Controller will be responsible for leading all aspects of the plant’s finance activities, including general accounting, cost accounting, financial analysis, internal control, and audit. This position leads and manages all company compliance, consolidation and reporting to provide financial information to the company on an accurate and timely basis. This leadership position requires a detail-oriented professional with excellent analytical, planning, evaluation, and implementation skills. The Plant Controller will also establish and implement policies and procedures to identify, resolve, and document accounting issues in addition to providing direction and strategic support to make the reporting processes more efficient and accurate.

The Plant Controller will lead, train, and develop a finance and accounting team to ensure current and future leadership of the financial function.

This individual must be extremely intelligent, personable, dynamic and innovative, with exceptional analytical skills, and one who deploys an energetic day-to-day “roll-up-your-sleeves” attitude.

Requirements

• Directs and oversees the preparation of accurate and timely plant-level financial statements, department activity reports and financial position presentations. Collaborates with the Corporate Finances to analyze and recommend improvements to financial performance, financial reporting and accounting policy.
• Partners with business leaders to ensure that reporting aligns to their needs and goals. Provides special reporting as well as formal and informal financial training and/or education to non-financial leaders as needed.
• Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring and enforcing policies and procedures.
• Protects assets by establishing, monitoring and enforcing internal controls.
• Maintains accurate perpetual inventory records.
• Provides data and insights to department managers during the budgeting process. Coordinates data required for the process and ensured reporting is aligned to budget review processes throughout the year.
• Prepares budgets by establishing schedules; collecting, analyzing and consolidating financial data; recommending plans.
• Achieves budget objectives by scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Prepares special reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends.
• Maintains accurate historical production reporting data.
• Oversee the operations of the accounting department, including the design of an organizational structure adequate for achieving the department's goals and objectives.
• Ensure timely transactions in accounts payable and accounts receivable.
• Maintain a system of controls over accounting transactions, chart of accounts and accounting filing system.
• Maintains financial staff by selecting, orienting and training employees.
• Maintains financial staff job results by coaching and counseling employees, planning, monitoring and appraising job results.
• Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Must have a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in accounting and finance, including supervisory.
• Direct accounting and finance experience in a discrete and processing manufacturing environment, medium sized business setting.
• Experience with JD Edwards preferred.
• Proficiency with costing standards, cost systems and variance analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with leadership teams to develop and execute strategy.
• Experience working with Private Equity owned Portfolio Companies preferred.
• Demonstrable experience with project management and process improvement.
• CPA not required, but preferred.
• Ability to travel as needed.