Business Controller

Wilton Factory Business Controller

The Wilton Factory Business Controller is a strategic finance partner responsible for driving financial transparency, discipline, and insight across operating expenses, headcount planning, and long-term capacity projections. This role leads Opex and workforce planning during the annual planning and long-range planning cycles, ensuring alignment between operational capacity, labor strategies, and financial outcomes.

The position owns monthly close, actuals, and forecasting for labor and Opex, with a strong focus on analyzing production work order variances and clearly communicating cost drivers, trends, and risks to Business Line leadership. The Business Controller develops and maintains labor rate assumptions and applies them consistently across planning, forecasting, and business case support, enabling informed decision making around investments, productivity initiatives, and growth.

Acting as a trusted advisor to Operations and Business Lines, this role connects financial results to operational performance, supports data driven decisions, and continuously improves planning, forecasting, and reporting processes to support sustainable long term business performance.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Operating Expense (Opex) & Headcount Planning
• Long-Term Capacity & Workforce Projections
• Monthly Close, Actuals, and Forecasting
• Production Work Order & Labor Coverage Variance Analysis
• Labor Rates & Business Case Support
• Business Partnership & Reporting

Education and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience.
• FSAP manufacturing experience preferred.
• Strong competence with tools, systems, and analytical methods used in cost accounting and financial analysis.
• Fluent in English

Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate and statistically analyze data and present findings clearly in written, graphical, or verbal formats.
• Strong customer-service orientation and ability to build effective relationships.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and email systems.
• Ability to confidently present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to read, interpret, and analyze data, reports, and financial documents.
• Ability to work under deadlines, adapt to new information, and interact effectively with others.
• Physical capability to perform routine office tasks, occasional lifting up to 20 lbs, and movement across campus as needed; ability to travel depending on business requirements.
• Ability to maintain focus in moderate noise environments and handle tasks requiring close, color, peripheral, and depth vision as needed.

Additional Responsibilities:

There is potential for exposure to strong magnetic fields, high voltage and currents.

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

ASML provides reasonable accommodations to applicants for ASML employment and ASML employees with disabilities. An accommodation is a change in work rules, facilities, or conditions which enable an individual with a disability to apply for a job, perform the essential functions of a job, and/or enjoy equal access to the benefits and privileges of employment. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete an application, participate in an interview, or otherwise participate in the employee pre-selection process, please send an email to  to initiate the company's reasonable accommodation process.

Please note:

This email address is solely intended to provide a method for applicants to initiate ASML's process to request accommodation(s). Any recruitment questions should be directed to the designated Talent Acquisition member for the position.