Plant Controller

About the Company

Our client is a leading food manufacturer. They are looking for a Plant Controller to join their team!

• Join a recognized leader in the Canadian food manufacturing industry
• Take on a unique role that blends commercial finance, operations support, and business performance insights
• Benefit from a strong compensation package paired with comprehensive benefits

• Identify opportunities to improve/expand plant reporting to enable better business decisions
• Provide analysis and commentary to financial results
• Support the month end financial statement close process
• Identify and develop tools/reports to assist plant supervision in the management of their business units
• Review monthly balance sheet reconciliations including those relating to prepaid expenses and AP accruals, and support payroll functions in Kronos with payroll supervision
• Prepare ad hoc analysis as required by the Controller III, Sales, Plant Manager, Business Performance, and other departments
• Actively participate in daily, weekly, monthly CI meetings providing insights on results and identifying areas of focus
• Support in identifying areas of continuous improvement and cost reduction through a shop floor presence

• Provide analysis to support plant decisions and finance (crewing patterns, capital acquisitions, return on investment, OH analysis, etc.)

• Provide recommendations for streamlining existing processes and system to help generate synergies between locations
• Support testing and implementation of system improvements/changes

• Ensure that the Accounting Staff have sufficient financial and support in automation and process improvements
• Identify and implement development opportunities for staff

• CPA designation (Canadian or internationally recognized equivalent)
• 4–6 years of progressive accounting experience with increasing responsibility
• Manufacturing industry experience: food manufacturing experience preferred
• Supervisory or team lead experience in an accounting or finance environment
• Strong cost accounting expertise, including standard costing and/or activity based costing (ABC)

$115,000 - $129,000/year