Divisional Controller

Description

As a member of the Regal Holdings family, the West Bend Company brings over 100 years of experience to its clients providing high quality cookware products that meet and exceed expectations. We are experts in drawing and finishing high performance stainless steel. We believe the kitchen (and the family table) make up the hub of the home, where everyone belongs.

• Be first in mind, first in choice for US manufactured cookware
• Positively impact the lives of over 1,000,000+ people each year with our innovative and entrepreneurial mindset
• Create an environment where all employees can do their best work

You will love it here if you believe in the following:

• Everybody matters
• Do the right thing
• We are in this together
• Passion for our customers
• Service Built
• Involved Solutions Provider

Your seat at the table:
Divisional Controller. You will love this seat if you get, want, and have the capacity to:

• Own the monthly close for manufacturing operations, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely results (journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and flux analysis).
• Prepare and/or oversee monthly, quarterly, and annual P&L statements and related schedules in accordance with GAAP and corporate policies.
• Lead the annual operating plan/budget for sales, plant, and supply chain functions; drive periodic forecasts and rolling reforecasts in partnership with budget owners.
• Provide clear financial insights and actionable commentary to leadership on performance drivers, risks/opportunities, and corrective actions.

• Serve as a strategic finance partner to Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Sales to align financial outcomes with operating priorities.
• Facilitate monthly performance reviews with budget owners (actual vs. budget/forecast), identifying key variances and developing mitigation plans.
• Develop and deliver operational KPI reporting (e.g., labor/overhead absorption, scrap, yield, freight, PPV, inventory turns, productivity) and translate results into decision-ready recommendations.
• Support cross-functional initiatives (S&OP inputs, capacity planning, make/buy, sourcing changes, footprint initiatives) through scenario modeling and ROI analysis.

• Maintain accurate inventory valuation and costing in alignment with policy and GAAP (standard costing, overhead rates, reserves/obsolescence, lower-of-cost-or-net-realizable-value where applicable).
• Own the standard cost system: cost builds, BOM/routing integrity finance validation, annual/semi-annual cost roll, and overhead rate setting/true-ups.
• Lead COGS reporting and in-depth margin analysis by product/customer/channel, including root‑cause variance analysis (purchase price, usage, labor efficiency, overhead/spending, mix, absorption).
• Partner with Operations to strengthen inventory controls and transactional discipline (cycle counts, physical inventory, inventory adjustments, segregation of duties, receiving/issuing accuracy).
• Partner with Sales/Commercial on pricing and quoting support to ensure pricing reflects margin targets, cost changes, and profitability goals.

• Ensure compliance with GAAP, tax and statutory requirements (as applicable), and company accounting policies.
• Maintain a strong internal control environment over manufacturing finance processes (close, inventory, cost accounting, capex, purchasing/AP interfaces), including documentation, testing, and remediation.
• Coordinate internal/external audits and support timely, accurate responses, drive resolution of findings and sustainable corrective actions.

• Maintain accounting for fixed assets and capital projects: capitalization policy compliance, project tracking, depreciation, disposals, and post‑investment reviews.
• Drive working capital visibility and improvement (inventory turns, excess & obsolete, payables/receivables impact in partnership with Finance/Regal Services).