Factory Controller

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Factory Management to provide timely financial analysis, reporting, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to maximize factory performance.
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve profitability, working capital, asset turns, contribution margins, and overall operational performance.
• Lead the annual budgeting and planning process, establishing realistic financial targets and identifying risks, opportunities, and contingency plans.
• Monitor actual performance against budgets and forecasts, analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Ensure internal financial controls and procedures are effective, compliant, and consistently followed.
• Manage all cost accounting activities, including standard costing, variance analysis, product costing, and month-end closing.
• Analyze manufacturing and operational data to identify cost-reduction and profitability improvement opportunities.
• Support lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives by tracking and validating financial savings.
• Provide financial oversight for capital investments, including business case analysis, strategy alignment, and tracking expected returns.
• Support quoting and new business opportunities by developing cost estimates, financial models, and profitability analysis.
• Coordinate financial data collection, analysis, and reporting across the factory and broader value chain.
• Support annual audits, tax requirements, financial controls, and other corporate finance activities.
• Prepare ad hoc financial analysis and reports for factory and corporate leadership.
• Provide financial controlling support for the Winsted Sales Unit.
• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor and work closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and other functional teams.
• Communicate financial performance, risks, trends, and improvement opportunities to factory leadership.

• Experience in business or factory controlling with a strong accounting background in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of standard cost accounting, manufacturing variances, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end closing.
• Ability to analyze complex financial and operational data and translate findings into clear recommendations for management.
• Demonstrated experience identifying opportunities to improve profitability, working capital, and manufacturing performance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Experience with ERP systems and strong Microsoft Excel/MS Office skills.
• Experience with financial consolidation systems is beneficial.
• Experience with data analytics and business intelligence tools such as Power BI is preferred.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with factory leadership and cross-functional manufacturing teams.
• Comfortable working in a hands-on manufacturing environment and spending time on the production floor.
• Aerospace or other highly regulated manufacturing industry experience is beneficial.