Sr. Plant Controller
About The Position
The Senior Plant Controller is responsible for the Little Rock, Arkansas campus. The role reports functionally to the Director of Manufacturing Controllership and operationally to the Little Rock Plant Manager, and serves on the plant management leadership team. It is a key influencing role focused on proactively helping manufacturing teams understand and improve operating performance. Key areas include spend analysis; material and labor variance analysis; mid-month operational performance reporting; forecasting and budgeting; KPI management and reporting; asset safeguarding; annual cost roll; and evaluating and tracking opportunities. The role sets the tone for controls and develops policies and procedures to ensure compliance with accounting standards. The position partners with operations and plant leadership on business objectives, financial implications, planning, analysis, cost optimization, and profit improvement. It also maintains accounting principles and processes, ensures compliance with US GAAP and SOX, evaluates plant performance, prepares and analyzes financial statements, supports systems implementation, and designs and maintains standard costs for plant products.
Requirements
- B.S. in accounting, finance, and/or economics.
- 10+ years in commercial and financial leadership responsibilities.
- Experience within a large, complex, manufacturing-oriented organization.
- 5+ years in a leadership or management capacity.
Nice To Haves
- CPA preferred.
- Extensive experience with JDE and OneStream.
Responsibilities
- Put safety first.
- Lead and foster a people-first culture.
- Serve as a business partner with operations, providing training and coaching on controls, policies, and financial metrics.
- Partner with the plant manager and plant management team to achieve business objectives, conduct tradeoff analysis, and perform ad hoc analysis as plant situations change.
- Advise plant management on the financial implications of operating strategies, actions, and decisions.
- Work with operations on robust planning and analysis for repairs and maintenance spending, focusing on controls and cost optimization.
- Initiate and manage financial analysis focused on profit improvement and financial operating performance while ensuring accurate and reliable financial reporting.
- Support ad hoc projects and analyze related financial presentations for accuracy.
- Support the information technology team in implementing new systems and processes.
- Determine and maintain accounting principles and processes, ensuring compliance with US GAAP and SOX.
- Evaluate plant activities to help ensure goals are achieved, and prepare and analyze financial statements.
- Design and maintain standard costs for all plant products.
- Manage spend analysis, material and labor variance analysis, mid-month operational performance reporting, forecasting, budgeting, KPI management and reporting, asset safeguarding, annual cost roll, and evaluation and tracking of opportunities.
Benefits
- Paid holidays and paid vacation.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Vision insurance.
- Wellness program.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Training and education options, both online and on-site nearby.
- Discounted stock purchase program.
- Employee discount program.
- Annual/sales bonus eligibility.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
