Job description:
About Us: Work for a company that is dedicated to excellence in
manufacturing and committed to fostering a culture of innovation and
operational excellence. Join us as a pivotal member of our plant
leadership team, where you'll play a critical role in shaping the
financial landscape of our facility and driving impactful change.
Role Overview: As the Plant Controller, you'll be an integral part of
the plant leadership team and the trusted right hand to the Plant
General Manager. You'll lead the financial function at our facility,
ensuring operational efficiency and a well-controlled environment.
Collaborating closely with both plant and corporate teams, you'll
spearhead initiatives to develop standard product costs, streamline
month-end close activities, optimize budgeting and forecasting
processes, and uphold ERP/General Ledger control assurance. Your
strategic insights and analytical rigor will drive improvements in
efficiencies, optimization, and strategic financial planning.
Core Duties:
- Operational Support: Partner with plant operations to ensure
accuracy of production records, develop labor costing models, and
drive a continuous pipeline of productivity projects.
- Process Management and Controls: Oversee plant compliance processes,
maintain financial and operational controls, and manage audit
control testing protocols and procedures.
- Financial Analysis and Reporting: Review P&L accounts, provide
critical insights on changes vs budget/forecast/prior year, ensure
inventory accuracy, develop management reporting for review with
plant and corporate leadership, and lead year-end financial
activities.
- Standard Costing and Variance Analysis: Lead the creation of
standard costs and variance planning for annual budget and periodic
forecasts, develop cause of change analytics and reporting, and
manage standard costs for all WIP and finished good items.
- Team Development and Resource Management: Provide training to team
members, assess resourcing needs, and build/update resource
contingency plans to support business objectives effectively.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of finance and accounting experience
- Experience within supply chain and manufacturing required,
experience within consumer goods preferred.
- Proficiency in cost accounting and standard product costing,
including experience with complex bills of materials and labor
costing models.
- Proven success in analyzing financial data to recommend business
efficiencies, optimize production and labor, and lead financial
business strategies.
- Strong ability to handle large amounts of data and prioritize
workload effectively.
- Adaptability to changing business needs while maintaining focus on
executing daily and monthly responsibilities with precision.
Why is This a Great Opportunity:
High growth, alcohol beverage company with the ability to make a big impact on the business at the brewery. While there are traditional Plant Controller responsibilities including cost accounting, inventory management bill of materials, month end close, etc they are looking for a strategic leader that will analyze the business and make recommendations for cost savings and/or efficienciesex: labor analysis (contract vs full-time), production times, how investing current dollars, etc. They want someone who has passion for analysis and making improvements and efficiencies. Ability to make an impact on the business, be a part of the plant leadership team and have measurable success.