Plant Controller

Virbac•Bridgeton, MO

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Virbac Animal Health is seeking a Plant Controller for its Finance Team. The Plant Controller will plan, organize, direct, and control the accounting of the industrial operations’ activities. This includes reporting on operational results and ensuring adequate internal controls are in place and complied with within the industrial operations area. The role drives and improves the industrial operations control tools of Virbac Corporation to measure and analyze the performance of industrial operations’ activities, ultimately aiming to improve costs, manufacturing efficiencies, invested capital optimization, and internal control effectiveness.

Requirements

8-12 years working in a Manufacturing Environment
Strong Cost Accounting background (Product Costing and Inventory valuation, BOM management and development).
ERP system familiarity –Inform M3 a plus
Ability to work cross functionally to drive results
Accounting Degree required
At least 5 years experience in a management capacity.
Managing Standard Costing Systems in Manufacturing Environment.
ERP experience, preferrably Infor M3 Movex.
Cross Functional Communication and Partnership.

Nice To Haves

CPA or CMA preferred

Responsibilities

Participate in the monitoring of the industrial operations activity through financial and operational reporting, consistently evaluate and analyze performance, and provide reliable decision making tools, including but not limited to, manufacturing variance and the inventory valuation.
Contribute to the optimization of production costs by supporting production management in quantifying and analyzing production measures.
Oversee inventory valuation, preparation of the monthly inventory reserve analysis, and roll-forward of inventory reserve.
Validate internal controls on a regular basis to ensure that controls remain appropriate and effective.
Oversee the physical inventory count process including implementation and maintenance of a perpetual inventory count process that meets internal and audit requirements (thus transitioning the company away from an annual physical inventory count).
Forecast and model activity-levels, taking into account financial, technical, planning and production aspects.
Provide the reporting required to and to analyze and control the performance of the Industrial Operations activities: Purchasing, Planning, Manufacturing, Inventory, Logistics, and Investments.
Analyze the performance of industrial processes in collaboration with operational management by producing relevant reports and indicators.
Report and analyze the manufacturing variance in partnership with finance and operations.
Define production costs to ensure consistency, accuracy and appropriate tracking.
Manage and Monitor the standard cost system in the framework of the VB Group cost methodology including refining the applied methodology and ensuring that it is consistently applied.
Calculate, analyze and report item costing and manufacturing information for the annual budget process. Prepare standard cost budgets taking into account: Manufacturing volumes relates to budgeted sales volumes, Direct labor hours and related budgeted costs, Overhead absorption rates based upon manufacturing volumes and budgeted indirect manufacturing cost, Over/under absorption of manufacturing overheads, Material standards.
Validate and approve all changes to standards.
Calculate and simulate standard and actual production costs including estimated production cost of new products.
Accounting for, analyzing and reporting on variances between actual and standard costs.
Provide leadership for the STL accounting staff through proper control, support, supervision, coordination and training.
Establish policies and procedures with regards to manufacturing accounting.
Assist in projects linked to information systems and tools implementation.