Plant Controller

Red Gold•Orestes, IN

59d

About The Position

This position will lead the financial function at the manufacturing facility. The Plant Controller will provide financial analysis for decision making and will educate the leadership team about financial analysis tools. Major responsibilities include developing the plant budget, conducting plant financial operation review meetings, variance analysis, return on investment analysis, generating cost saving ideas, and maintaining cost standards. The Plant Controller provides financial leadership to the Plant Manager and all plant departments. Due to the dynamic nature of our business, duties and responsibilities may be added, deleted, or changed at any time at the discretion of management, formally or informally, either verbally or in writing.

Requirements

4 year degree in Accounting or Finance
5-8 years' experience in Manufacturing Cost Accounting with 3 years supervisory experience
Computer Proficient - MS Office
MRP
ERP
Bar Coding
Initiative self-starter
Excellent communication skills - written and verbal
Strong interpersonal skills
Leader
Assertive

Responsibilities

Business partner for site leadership
Help leadership understand cost drivers and opportunities to improve profitability
Manage and develop Accounting and Finance staff
Performance Analysis
Conduct monthly plant operation review meetings
Review actual vs. budget for labor dollars, labor efficiencies, crewing variances, material usage, and overhead rates
Assist departmental managers in developing corrective actions for material, labor, and overhead spending variances including monitoring and reporting of departmental and plant goals
Coordinate Capital evaluation with Corporate Financial Analyst---Capital
Manage the accuracy and completeness of the Cost files
Manage the New Product Initiation process and develop costs for new products
Manage the plant budgeting process
Conduct departmental interviews to determine plant material, labor, and overhead budget requirements
Prepare Annual Operating Plan and reforecast as needed
Insure inventory procedures are followed to provide confidence that inventory is accurate
Manage inventory transaction and inventory variance analyses
Develop an overall understanding of the activity based costing model
Determine plant reporting needs from activity based costing model
Responsible for monitoring, record keeping and taking appropriate actions for specific Food Safety Plan and Food Quality Plan and pre-requisite program requirements.
Responsible to report food safety and quality issues to management.