Plant Controller

Bull Moose Tube•Tuscaloosa, AL

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Plant Controller serves as a key financial partner to multiple production facilities, ensuring accurate financial reporting, consistent accounting practices, and effective financial controls across locations. The role uses the company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, including Tube Mill Software (TMS), to support cost management, inventory control, profitability, and operational efficiency. Initial training takes place in Birmingham, Alabama. After training is completed, the position transitions to the company's Tuscaloosa, Alabama location and follows a hybrid schedule with three days on-site per week.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
5–8 years of relevant accounting and financial management experience.
Strong understanding of GAAP, financial reporting, cost accounting, and internal controls.
Proficiency with personal computers and experience with ERP systems.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, particularly Microsoft Excel.
Effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present financial information clearly to plant and corporate leadership.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and meet established deadlines.
Ability to oversee decentralized accounting activities and partner effectively with multiple plant managers and corporate leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Tube Mill Software (TMS).
MBA or CPA.
Manufacturing industry experience, including multi-plant financial oversight.

Responsibilities

Perform timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial closes by preparing supporting workpapers, recording journal entries, and reviewing general ledger activity for accuracy.
Prepare plant-level financial statements, profit and loss reports, balance sheet reconciliations, spending summaries, and forecasts.
Maintain the plant's cost accounting system, including standard costing, labor and overhead rates, and analysis of production variances.
Support plant management by identifying cost-reduction opportunities, improving productivity, and providing financial analysis as needed.
Assist in preparing the annual operating budget and periodic forecasts, and report on the reasons for variances throughout the year.
Monitor inventory valuation, coordinate cycle counts and physical inventories, and review obsolete or slow-moving inventory.
Monitor capital expenditures, track project spending, and evaluate return on investment.
Design, implement, document, and maintain adequate and effective internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure financial accuracy.
Ensure compliance with GAAP and corporate financial policies, and assist with tax and regulatory compliance requirements.
Coordinate data collection and provide support for internal and external financial audits.
Serve as the point of contact for special projects and financial analysis requested by corporate operations.