Plant Controller

SIMONA America Industries is looking for an experienced Plant Controller to join our team in Archbald, PA.

This is a highly visible role for a finance professional who enjoys being close to the business and partnering directly with Operations. The Plant Controller will serve as a key financial partner to plant leadership, providing the analysis, insight, and financial guidance needed to improve manufacturing performance, profitability, inventory management, and operational decision-making.

Experience in a manufacturing environment is essential, and strong SAP/S/4

HANA, product costing, and manufacturing cost controlling experience is highly preferred.

• Serve as a key financial business partner to plant and operational leadership.
• Work closely with Production, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Sales, HR, and Corporate Finance.
• Translate financial and operational data into actionable business recommendations.
• Participate in operational reviews and performance meetings.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, profitability, inventory, and working capital.
• Provide financial guidance and coaching to operational leaders.

• Maintain and improve product costing methodologies.
• Review product cost structures, including material, labor, and overhead.
• Analyze material usage, purchase price, labor efficiency, overhead absorption, yield, scrap, and rework variances.
• Identify root causes behind manufacturing performance deviations and recommend corrective actions.
• Monitor cost center performance and analyze fixed and variable cost drivers.
• Partner with Operations on cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Lead the plant’s annual budgeting process and periodic forecasting.
• Prepare sales, production, labor, overhead, inventory, and capital expenditure forecasts.
• Analyze actual performance against budget, forecast, prior year, and strategic targets.
• Identify financial and operational risks and opportunities.
• Develop financial models and scenario analyses to support business decisions.
• Support pricing, profitability, and business case analyses.

• Prepare and analyze monthly management reporting, including sales, volume, margin, manufacturing performance, working capital, and key operational KPIs.
• Support month-end close through review of production results, inventory movements, costing transactions, accruals, and variances.
• Develop dashboards and KPIs that provide greater visibility into plant performance.
• Communicate financial results and operational trends to plant and corporate leadership.

• Monitor inventory levels, turns, aging, and working capital.
• Analyze excess, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory.
• Review inventory valuation and reserve requirements.
• Support physical inventory and cycle count programs.
• Investigate inventory variances and identify corrective actions.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain on inventory reduction initiatives.

• Prepare and review business cases for capital investments.
• Perform ROI, IRR, NPV, and payback analyses.
• Support capital expenditure approval processes.
• Track the financial results of approved projects.
• Support strategic and operational improvement initiatives through financial analysis.
• Understand end-to-end processes across manufacturing, supply chain, procurement, sales, and finance.
• Identify process inefficiencies, data issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Help improve and automate financial reporting, planning, and controlling processes.
• Partner with Finance, IT, and Operations to improve data quality and reporting capabilities.
• Leverage ERP and business intelligence tools to increase transparency and support better decision-making.

The ideal candidate will bring strong manufacturing finance experience and be comfortable working directly with plant leadership and Operations.

Key areas of experience include:

• Business partnering with Operations
• Manufacturing cost controlling and product costing
• Planning, forecasting, and financial analysis
• ERP, data, and end-to-end process understanding
• An…