Plant Controller

AFL•Duncan, SC

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Plant Controller is the finance leader for the manufacturing facility and a core member of the plant leadership team. The role ensures accurate plant financial results, strong controls and inventory integrity, and translates operating performance into actions that improve profitability, productivity, working capital and capital effectiveness. The position executes enterprise finance, accounting, costing, planning and control standards in close partnership with Plant Management, Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Product Costing, Corporate Controllership and Division Finance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline
Progressive accounting or finance experience, including significant manufacturing, cost-accounting or plant-finance experience
Demonstrated team leadership and development
Strong knowledge of GAAP, SOX, internal controls, audit requirements, standard costing, absorption accounting, inventory valuation, manufacturing variances and production economics
Experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial and capital analysis, and fixed assets
Proficiency with ERP and reporting systems, advanced Excel and analytical tools
Ability to understand manufacturing operations, translate drivers into financial actions, work effectively in a matrix organization and influence stakeholders while maintaining financial integrity

Nice To Haves

MBA, CPA or CMA preferred
Oracle preferred

Responsibilities

Lead the plant close; ensure timely, complete and accurate accruals, journal entries, reconciliations, schedules and results in accordance with the corporate close calendar.
Certify the integrity of the plant P&L, balance sheet, inventory, fixed assets and manufacturing transactions; explain results versus forecast, budget and prior year, including operational causes and required actions.
Own accurate and timely plant budget, forecast and long-range-plan inputs for volume, mix, labor, material, overhead, inventory and capital; identify risks, opportunities, sensitivities and recommended actions.
Monitor governed scorecards and operating reviews, linking operational drivers to gross margin, operating profit, inventory, working capital and cash; support cross-site forecasting and scenario analysis.
Execute standard-cost activities and annual cost rolls under enterprise methods.
Validate bills of material, routings, labor and machine rates, overhead, yields, scrap factors and production master data.
Analyze purchase price, labor efficiency, scrap, material usage, overhead spending and absorption variances; partner on root causes and corrective actions, escalating policy, methodology or system issues to Product Costing.
Provide reliable cost, capacity and margin inputs for pricing, sourcing, make-versus-buy, product-mix and new-product decisions while respecting Market Finance ownership of customer pricing.
Ensure accurate raw-material, work-in-process and finished-goods quantities and valuation.
Lead physical inventories and cycle counts, reconcile exceptions, and drive corrective action.
Analyze excess, obsolete and slow-moving inventory, valuation reserves, turns, aging and asset utilization; partner with Operations and Supply Chain to reduce working capital without compromising service or resilience.
Maintain effective plant controls and procedures consistent with GAAP, J-SOX, corporate policy, delegated authority and segregation-of-duties requirements.
Support audits, remediate findings and improve financial and operational master-data quality.
Develop capital models and returns analysis, track spending, commitments and benefits, and perform post-investment reviews.
Provide analysis for labor, productivity, automation, capacity, footprint, sourcing and continuous-improvement decisions.
Serve as the primary finance partner to the Plant Manager and participate in S&OP, operating, productivity and continuous-improvement reviews.
Deliver clear commentary on what happened, why, what is expected next and what action is required.
Lead, mentor and develop the plant finance team; strengthen capability in manufacturing finance, product costing, controls, data quality, analytics and business partnership; adopt enterprise tools, standards and automation.