FAB Controller

Nokia•Chandler, AZ

4h•$107,983 - $200,539

About The Position

The FAB Controller is responsible for financial control, reporting, forecasting, and cost analysis for semiconductor fabrication operations. The role partners with factory leadership, operations, engineering, supply chain, and finance teams to provide accurate financial reporting, strong cost governance, inventory control, and actionable business insights. The FAB Controller helps manage manufacturing performance, supports capital investments, and ensures compliance with accounting policies and internal controls.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
Significant experience in finance, controlling, or cost accounting within a manufacturing environment.
Strong understanding of standard costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, and financial planning.
Experience supporting monthly close, forecasts, budgeting, and management reporting.
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret large data sets and turn them into actionable business insights.
Ability to work cross-functionally with operations, engineering, supply chain, and senior leadership.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Proficiency in ERP systems and Excel-based financial modeling.

Nice To Haves

Experience in semiconductor, high-tech, or advanced manufacturing environments.
Knowledge of FAB-specific metrics such as yield, scrap, cycle time, utilization, and cost absorption.
Experience with capital-intensive manufacturing operations.
Familiarity with internal controls, audit support, and compliance processes.
CPA, CMA, or MBA.

Responsibilities

Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities for FAB operations; prepare and review journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and manufacturing-related financial reporting.
Ensure timely and accurate reporting of factory financial results, including manufacturing variances and operational spend, and provide commentary on actuals versus forecast, budget, and prior periods.
Analyze manufacturing costs, including labor, overhead, materials, purchase price variance, scrap, yield, and absorption; explain standard-cost versus actual-cost variances.
Support standard-cost updates and maintain accurate cost assumptions for factory-produced materials and finished goods.
Partner with operations to identify and track cost-reduction opportunities and corrective actions.
Oversee inventory accounting for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, reserves, and excess and obsolete inventory; ensure balances are accurate, reconciled, and compliant with accounting requirements.
Support cycle counts, physical inventory, and inventory reserve processes; monitor manufacturing-related balance-sheet accounts and drive issue resolution.
Lead FAB budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning; develop forecasts for factory spend, variances, headcount, and capital investments.
Model the financial impact of production volume, utilization, ramp plans, yield changes, and operational scenarios; support planning for capacity, technology ramps, and strategic manufacturing initiatives.
Track manufacturing capital expenditures against plan and support capital forecasting and reporting.
Partner with operations and engineering to evaluate the financial impact of tools, equipment, and facility investments; monitor depreciation impacts and support capitalization decisions in line with policy.
Provide financial support for major fab expansion or strategic investment programs.
Serve as a finance partner to FAB leadership, manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, and procurement; translate operational issues into financial implications and support data-driven decisions.
Challenge assumptions, highlight risks and opportunities, promote accountability for factory financial performance, and participate in operational and financial review meetings.
Maintain internal controls for manufacturing finance processes and ensure compliance with accounting policies, controls, and audit requirements.
Support internal and external audit requests concerning inventory, cost accounting, capital expenditures, and manufacturing transactions; help remediate control gaps and inefficiencies.
Improve factory-finance reporting, forecasting, and analytics; support ERP, costing, and reporting system enhancements.
Simplify, standardize, and automate recurring finance processes and strengthen data quality and transparency across manufacturing and finance reporting.

Benefits

Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
Health and dental benefits
Short-term and long-term disability
Company-paid life insurance and AD&D equal to 2x base pay
Optional or supplemental life and AD&D insurance for employees, spouses, and children
Paid time off for holidays and vacation
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tuition Assistance Plan
Adoption assistance
Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program