24/7 Plant Controller: Finance Leader & Ops Partner

Checkpoint Systems; Clinton (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkpoint Systems seeks a Plant Controller to lead accounting, financial reporting, and cost controls for a 24/7 manufacturing facility. You will partner with Plant Management and Corporate Finance to provide timely financial information, analyze production performance, material usage, labor, and inventory, and influence cost and productivity improvements across shifts.

The role requires manufacturing cost accounting expertise, budgeting/forecasting experience, and strong Excel and ERP skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or closely related discipline is required.
• Approximately 5+ years of progressively responsible accounting or finance experience, preferably including manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of general accounting and financial controls.
• Demonstrated knowledge of manufacturing cost accounting.
• Experience with budgeting, forecasting, inventory accounting, and variance analysis.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with ERP/accounting systems.
• Ability to analyze financial and operational data and clearly explain conclusions to non-financial managers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the plant's accounting and financial reporting activities.
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close activities.
• Prepare, review, and analyze plant financial statements and operating results.
• Maintain appropriate accounting records, reconciliations, accruals, and supporting documentation.
• Investigate unusual financial results, transactions, or variances and ensure appropriate corrective action.
• Provide plant leadership with meaningful financial analysis rather than simply reporting financial results.
• Support Corporate Finance requirements, audits, reporting, and financial initiatives.
• Maintain strong internal financial controls and segregation of duties.
• Ensure accounting activities comply with company policies and applicable accounting requirements.
• Work closely with Operations and Engineering to understand the operational causes behind significant manufacturing variances.
• Develop working knowledge of manufacturing processes and regularly engage with Operations.
• Translate plant performance into financial terms for management decisions.
• Lead budgeting and forecasting for the plant.
• Develop departmental spending expectations with functional managers.
• Monitor actual results against budget and forecast.
• Identify unfavorable trends and communicate them to leadership.
• Prepare financial scenarios to support operational decisions.
• Assist management in establishing cost-reduction and productivity targets.
• Maintain financial integrity of raw-material, WIP, and finished-goods inventory.
• Reconcile inventory records to the general ledger.
• Support cycle-count and physical-inventory processes.
• Investigate significant inventory discrepancies.
• Review obsolete, excess, slow-moving, or questionable inventory.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to strengthen inventory controls.
• Evaluate inventory adjustments and ensure proper authorization and documentation.
• Support development of capital expenditure requests and financial justification.
• Evaluate payback, savings assumptions, and expected financial returns.
• Maintain appropriate accounting for approved capital projects.
• Monitor spending against authorized capital budgets.
• Ensure completed projects are capitalized and placed into service.
• Support post-project reviews to determine benefits achieved.
• Maintain plant-level financial controls and documentation.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Monitor spending authority and approval processes.
• Assist management in reducing financial, inventory, and asset-control risk.
• Develop strong working relationships with Plant Manager, Operations leadership, Shift Managers, Maintenance, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain/Purchasing, HR, Corporate Finance.
• Provide financial guidance that helps these groups understand economic consequences of operational decisions.

Skills

Manufacturing accounting

Cost accounting

Variance analysis

Budgeting & forecasting

Excel (advanced)

Financial analysis

Communication with non-financial mgrs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Business Administration

CPA or CMA preferred

Tools

ERP/accounting systems

Job description

Checkpoint Systems seeks a Plant Controller to lead accounting, financial reporting, and cost controls for a 24/7 manufacturing facility. You will partner with Plant Management and Corporate Finance to provide timely financial information, analyze production performance, material usage, labor, and inventory, and influence cost and productivity improvements across shifts.

The role requires manufacturing cost accounting expertise, budgeting/forecasting experience, and strong Excel and ERP skills.