Finance Plant Controller, Vineland

Corning•Vineland, NJ

30d•Onsite

About The Position

Corning is a world leader in glass, ceramic, and materials science, known for its innovation and ability to push the boundaries of what's possible. The company's technologies impact various markets, including life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive. Corning's success is driven by its people, who continuously break through limitations and drive progress. This role provides financial leadership for the Plant, ensuring all financial and managerial accounting requirements are met.

Requirements

Proven ability to successfully manage multiple internal and external financial deliverables for one or more business units, in accordance with controls and accounting requirements.
Experience resolving compliance and reporting issues, providing recommendations to improve processes and guidance to junior colleagues.
Demonstrated success facilitating cross-functional communications to ensure understanding of financial results and timely delivery of deliverables.
Experience managing data collection processes and investigating potential concerns to ensure accuracy and compliance with reporting requirements.
Experience managing one or more components of the planning and budgeting process, in collaboration with the controller and business.
Experience interpreting financial data and recommending alternative solutions and potential risks.
Experience supporting components of unstructured senior management requests, leveraging strategic networks to obtain information and synthesizing key insights.
Experience leveraging and managing relationships with plant and non-Finance teams to strengthen knowledge of production process and to obtain data critical to executing business tasks.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration
Knowledge of financial and management accounting
Strong computer skills, including SAP, Khalix, People Soft
Ability to be comfortable interacting and communicating with all aspects of the business, including plant staff and senior managers.
Supervisory experience
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Sound cross functional skills
Ability to act under pressure in fast-paced environment

Nice To Haves

Team player
Business partner
Ability to act on initiative
Customer focused
Ability to embrace change

Responsibilities

Manages delivery of internal and external financials for or on behalf of business units and works to ensure the integrity and completeness of all financial deliverables.
Evaluates and manages tracking of financial and/or operational metrics and performances and summarizes findings.
Helps implement audits and serves as a point of escalation for compliance and service-level issues.
Implements and suggests initiatives to improve day-to-day operations (e.g., ORM, IT, business processes) to ensure financial accounting systems are maintained according to reporting requirements.
Ensures that projects are completed in a timely manner and in accordance with established practices and reporting requirements.
Reviews and analyzes financial and budgetary reports for accuracy; contributes to the identification of key insights.
Collaborates cross-functionally to support, explain, and translate financial issues for the operational sides of the business.
Assists Business and Division leaders in the development and maintenance of planning and budgeting processes (forecast budget, 5 year plan), preparation of financial and management reports, procedures, and presentation of findings.
May partner with business leaders to make key operational business decisions; may engage and influence senior management in areas such as cost and product line management.
May supervise a small team, conducts goal setting and performance processes to prioritize and align with overall company and function-wide goals and objectives, coaches talent, and serves as an organizational resource.