Plant Controller
Adient•West Point, GA
•Onsite
About The Position
This role is a senior-level accounting/finance position focused on plant financial management, reporting, and analysis within an automotive manufacturing environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required
- 8+ years in Accounting/Finance with a strong Manufacturing background
- Fluent in MS Office applications, Advanced in MS Excel
- Experience with ERP's: SAP and HFM applications preferred
- Strong understanding of SOX / internal controls
- Ability to handle ambiguity and deadlines
- Strong analytical thinking
- Effective communication / presentation skills
- Cross-functional collaboration with operations teams
Nice To Haves
- Automotive manufacturing & Plant finance environment
Responsibilities
- Lead monthly, quarterly, yearly closes
- Prepare and review journal entries & accruals
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations and prepare additional journal entries
- Adjust Balance Sheet Accounts for Accruals
- Prepare and Validate trial balance & financial statements
- Able to explain Financial Statements
- Define allocation methodology
- Reconcile HFM vs SAP
- Support audits and compliance (SOX)
- Provide information about inter- and intra-company discrepancies
- Perform variance analysis (actual vs budget/forecast)
- Analyze performance by plant/platform
- Provide insights to local leadership
- Create and distribute management reports
- Manage inventory valuation and movements
- Reconcile physical inventory
- Analyze inventory variances and losses
- Maintain inventory accounting processes
- Manage capital expenditures (CapEx)
- Track projects vs capital asset requests
- Decide on capitalization + CIP settlement
- Handle asset retirements, write-offs
- Support capital grants and reporting
- Summarize capital expenditure plan for plant > (Preparation & Authorization)
- Interact with program controller & CBUs for plant to create correct input
- Verify fixed assets inventory and request adjustments
- Prepare and distribute financial information
- Build and review budgets and forecasts
- Collaborate with operations & business units to review profit plans, forecast, and receive & verify budgeting assumptions
- Develop planning & budgeting assumptions for the plant
- Support profit planning
- Apply, execute and maintain function related BOS issues safety/ergonomic committees, participating in safety Kaizen events, participating in safety audits and safety observation feedback events
- Complete safety inspections, employee observations, and monthly safety training as assigned
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
