Plant Controller

The Plant Controller is responsible for the financial leadership, accounting integrity, cost controls, budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis of a 24/7 manufacturing facility.

This position serves as a key business partner to Plant Management and Corporate Finance, providing accurate and timely financial information while developing a strong understanding of plant operations. The Controller is expected to go beyond traditional accounting responsibilities and actively evaluate the financial impact of production performance, material usage, labor, inventory, scrap, downtime, capital investment, and continuous improvement activities.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working with Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and Corporate Finance and will maintain strong financial controls while helping plant leadership identify opportunities to improve cost, productivity, and profitability.

Because the facility operates continuously, the Controller must understand that significant production activity occurs outside normal office hours and periodically work with or support personnel across all shifts.

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E. Railroad St, Clinton , North Carolina 28328 , United States

• Lead the plant's accounting and financial reporting activities.
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close activities.
• Prepare, review, and analyze plant financial statements and operating results.
• Maintain appropriate accounting records, reconciliations, accruals, and supporting documentation.
• Investigate unusual financial results, transactions, or variances and ensure appropriate corrective action.
• Provide plant leadership with meaningful financial analysis rather than simply reporting financial results.
• Support Corporate Finance requirements, audits, reporting, and financial initiatives.
• Maintain strong internal financial controls and segregation of duties.
• Ensure accounting activities comply with company policies and applicable accounting requirements.

Maintain and continuously improve the facility's manufacturing cost-accounting processes, including:

• Standard costing
• Actual manufacturing costs
• Raw material consumption
• Direct and indirect labor
• Work-in-process inventory
• Inventory valuation
• Scrap and material losses
• Production and purchase price variances
• Labor and overhead variances
• Inventory adjustments
• Cost-of-goods-sold analysis

Work closely with Operations and Engineering to understand the operational causes behind significant manufacturing variances.

The Controller is expected to develop a working knowledge of the manufacturing processes and regularly engage with Operations rather than manage plant finances exclusively from the accounting office.

Analyze the financial effects of:

• Scrap and yield loss
• Machine and process downtime
• Overtime
• Staffing changes
• Material consumption
• Equipment reliability
• Maintenance spending
• Inventory levels
• Process improvements
• Operational disruptions

Translate plant performance into financial terms that managers can use to make business decisions.

• Lead development of the annual plant operating budget.
• Develop departmental spending expectations with functional managers.
• Monitor actual results against budget and forecast.
• Identify unfavorable trends early and communicate them to leadership.
• Assist management in establishing realistic cost-reduction and productivity targets.

• Maintain financial integrity of raw-material, WIP, and finished-goods inventory.
• Reconcile inventory records to the general ledger.
• Support cycle-count and physical-inventory processes.
• Investigate significant inventory discrepancies.
• Review obsolete, excess, slow-moving, or questionable inventory.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to strengthen inventory controls.
• Evaluate inventory adjustments and ensure appropriate authorization and documentation.

• Support development of capital expenditure requests and financial justification.
• Evaluate payback, savings assumptions, and expected financial returns.
• Maintain appropriate accounting for approved capital projects.
• Monitor spending against authorized capital budgets.
• Ensure completed projects are appropriately capitalized and placed into service.
• Support post-project reviews when appropriate to determine whether anticipated financial benefits were achieved.

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