Plant Controller

Alloy Enterprises; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Paid vacation/holidays/sick time

Comprehensive benefits package

On the job/cross training

Encouraging and collaborative team

Zero Harm safety

Job summary

Johnson Controls Canada is seeking a Senior Financial Controller to lead financial control and accounting at our plant. You will ensure timely reporting, analyze costs, and partner with sales, engineering and procurement.

The role requires a Master’s in Accounting or Finance with 8–10 years in manufacturing finance, deep knowledge of internal controls and US GAAP, and strong communication with operations leaders.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 8–10 years of experience in manufacturing finance.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls and US GAAP.
• Excellent communication and partnering with operations leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial control and accounting activities for the plant.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to reduce costs and improve ROI.
• Ensure integrity of plant financial information.
• Prepare budgets, quarterly forecasts, and weekly outlooks.
• Collaborate with sales, engineering, and procurement on cost standards.
• Review payroll controls and ensure SOX compliance.
• Coordinate fixed asset inventories and capitalization.
• Support IT systems reliability and CI initiatives.

Skills

Financial analysis

Internal controls

US GAAP

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Masters Degree in Accounting or Finance

Job description

Build your best future with the Johnson Controls team

As a global leader in smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places and the planet. Join a winning team that enables you to build your best future! Our teams are uniquely positioned to support a multitude of industries across the globe. You will have the opportunity to develop yourself through meaningful work projects and learning opportunities. We strive to provide our employees with an experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Become a member of the Johnson Controls family and thrive in an empowering company culture where your voice and ideas will be heard – your next great opportunity is just a few clicks away!

What we offer:

• Competitive salary
• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time
• Comprehensive benefits package
• On the job/cross training opportunities
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

Founded in 1994, Silent-Aire is a technology-driven company that designs, engineers, and manufactures hyperscale cooling and modular data center solutions. Silent-Aire employs over 3000 people, with a total of 13 manufacturing facilities and over 1 million sq/ft of capacity in Edmonton, Alberta; Gilbert, Arizona; and Dublin, Ireland. There are sales/service centers in Seattle, Washington; Boardman, Oregon; Ashburn, Virginia; and Dublin, Ireland. Since May 2021, Silent-Aire has been a part of Johnson Controls' Data Center Solutions group. To learn more, please visit https://www.silent-aire.com/.

What you will do

Under general direction and in conformance with Corporate and Division Policies and procedures, helps lead financial control and accounting activities to assure accurate and timely preparation, recording, transmissions, analysis, and communication of data necessary to control operations and achieve objectives. Provides analysis, counsel, advice, and recommendations to help plant management make business decisions to reduce costs, improve profits and return on investment and to achieve goals and plans. Ensure the integrity of the financial information generated at the plant. Implement consistency and process improvements and spread financial knowledge to other members of the sales and operations teams

How will you do it

• Analyzing monthly financial results for the full P&L at the plant, including validating the accuracy of key finance metrics.
• Prepare annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and weekly outlooks for the facility
• Partner with sales organization and communicate/align updates on S&O vs financial outlooks
• Work closely with engineering and procurement on the annual standards roll as well as monthly PPV reporting.
• Review and monitor cycle count process and physical inventories. Help analyze reports for variance problems, physical to book inventory variations, and takes corrective action.
• Partner with the shared service center teams to ensure balance sheet reconciliations are performed and reviewed on a timely basis. Responsible for reviewing all key and subjective reserve accounts on at least a quarterly basis.
• Assist in preparation/review of CAR financial justifications for plant capital projects. Track capital project spending, timing and cost impact against project plan, forecasts and budget to understand and report variances. Work with project managers to assure timely capitalization of equipment placed in use. Assist/perform sample CAR post audits to verify savings. Coordinates periodic fixed asset physical inventory per company policies.
• Reviews payroll and labor analysis and ensure applicable payroll controls are in place.
• Ensure adherence to Corporate and Divisional accounting/internal control procedures, SOX compliance and reporting requirements for all plants.
• Analyzes plant operating costs in detail and partners with plant operation leaders to develop actions to increase profitability and enhance long-term return on investment.
• Assists corporate and divisional systems personnel in the implementation and continued reliability of plant IT systems. Directs the scheduling and operation of remote data processing equipment. Prepares requests and recommendations for systems/programming changes to meet needs and conditions.
• Work with operations on driving plant continuous improvement and validate all CI initiatives for accuracy.
• Performs special studies and analyses at request of plant or division management.
• Responsible for fostering effective employee relations.
• Performs any other duties as assigned.

What we look for

• Masters Degree required. Major in Accounting or Finance.
• 8-10 years of experience in a manufacturing environment or equivalent trough different experience.
• Strong knowledge of internal controls and US GAAP accounting required.
• Outstanding ability to communicate, motivate and partner with business operation leaders

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