Factory Controller
Foundational Industries
•Onsite
About The Position
The Plant Controller is the senior financial leader at Foundational's manufacturing facility and a core member of the plant leadership team. You own the full financial picture — cost accounting, forecasting, compliance, and internal controls — and translate operational performance into decisions that move margins. The plant doesn't hit its numbers without you.
Requirements
- Owned a standard cost system in a manufacturing environment — built or rebuilt it, not just maintained it.
- Know labor, material, and overhead standards cold.
- Can model PPV, manufacturing variances, absorption analysis, and inventory reserves without a template.
- Run a full plant-level financial close — P&L, working capital trends, GAAP compliant statements — and presented results to plant and company leadership.
- 8–10 years in accounting or finance with 3–5 years of direct plant-level responsibility in a manufacturing environment.
- Understand SOX compliance operationally — you have designed and tested controls, not just signed off on them.
- Excel is a native language.
- Build the model; you don't wait for IT.
Nice To Haves
- CPA or MBA.
- ERP experience in a manufacturing environment (SAP, Oracle, JDE, or equivalent).
- Prior exposure to a public company reporting environment.
Responsibilities
- Own the standard cost system end-to-end — labor, material, overhead standards, PPV, variance analysis, and inventory valuation are accurate and trusted by the plant GM and ops leadership.
- Deliver monthly financial close on time with clean variance analysis (price, volume, mix, labor, overhead) and margin visibility by product and customer.
- Stand up a KPI dashboard that gives plant leadership real-time visibility into scrap, yield, labor efficiency, throughput, and overhead utilization.
- Lead the annual operating plan and own the rolling forecast process — you are the financial quarterback for the plant, not a back-office function.
- Identify and execute at least two material cost reduction or margin improvement initiatives in partnership with Operations.
- Build and develop an accounting team that operates to high standards — clean audits, strong controls, no surprises.
Benefits
- Base, bonus, and equity to reflect impact, responsibility, and results, with meaningful upside for the people who help build and scale this company.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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