Controller, Plant Controlling

Segment:
Danfoss Power Solutions Segment

Job Category:
Finance & Accounting

Work Location Type:
On-site

Annual Salary Range: USD 98,

Job Experience Level: Mid-Senior level

The Controller leads site financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cost control, variance analysis, capital justification, inventory valuation, financial governance, and decision support for the Utica liquid-cooling manufacturing and distribution site within the Data Center Business Unit.

This role translates operational performance into financial insight. The Controller supports profitable growth, ramp-up decisions, inventory health, capital deployment, and cost discipline while ensuring financial controls and reporting accuracy.

• Lead financial reporting, monthly close support, forecasting, budgeting, cost analysis, and management reporting for the site.
• Analyze labor, overhead, inventory, scrap, rework, productivity, purchase price variance, premium freight, capital spending, and manufacturing cost drivers.
• Partner with site leadership to identify financial risks, improvement opportunities, operating tradeoffs, and resource allocation decisions.
• Support capital investment requests, business cases, payback analysis, project tracking, capitalization, and post-completion reviews.
• Maintain financial controls, accounting accuracy, compliance, standard costing, inventory valuation, and cost center governance.
• Support ramp-up planning by modeling labor needs, overhead absorption, startup costs, inventory requirements, capacity investments, and productivity assumptions.
• Partner with Supply Chain on inventory health, cycle count results, excess/obsolete risk, purchase price variance, and freight/expedite impacts.
• Partner with Operations and CI to validate productivity savings, scrap reduction, labor efficiency improvements, and cost-reduction projects.
• Partner with Engineering on equipment justification, tooling costs, make-versus-buy analysis, standard cost impacts, and capital project controls.
• Prepare operating review materials, financial bridges, variance explanations, forecast updates, and leadership decision packages.
• Ensure compliance with corporate finance policies, internal controls, approval requirements, and audit documentation expectations.
• Develop financial acumen across the site by explaining cost drivers and helping leaders make fact-based decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field required; master's degree, CPA, CMA, or equivalent certification preferred.
• Manufacturing finance, cost accounting, plant controlling, FP&A, or operations finance experience required.
• Experience with ERP systems, standard costing, inventory valuation, capital controls, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis preferred.
• Ability to communicate financial concepts to operational leaders and influence decisions through data.

Technical Requirements

• Deep understanding of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, inventory valuation, capital tracking, and financial controls.
• Ability to analyze labor, overhead, scrap, productivity, purchase price variance, inventory, capital spending, standard cost, and manufacturing cost drivers.
• Experience preparing financial reports, operating review materials, forecasts, annual plans, business cases, payback analysis, and post-completion reviews.
• Working knowledge of financial systems,…