Job Title:
Plant Controller
Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Keene, NH
Client Overview
A roughly $100 million discrete manufacturing plant that serves as the flagship US production site for a global industrial products business, building precision equipment and consumables shipped worldwide. The site has had recent capacity investment behind it. This role is the financial lead for that plant, partnered directly with Operations and reporting into senior leadership.
Top 3 Skills
- Standard costing in discrete manufacturing: BOMs, work order tracking, and variance analysis
- Internal controls and SOX compliance over inventory and the revenue cycle
- ERP and MES financial process ownership, covering plant P&L, inventory, and capital forecasting
What You’ll Do
- Own the plant’s full financials, including monthly P&L, inventory, and capital forecasting
- Lead standard costing, BOM maintenance, work order tracking, and variance analysis
- Enforce and continually improve internal controls, particularly over SOX compliance, inventory, and the revenue cycle
- Partner with Operations to tie financial results to production performance and identify real cost improvements
- Deliver audit ready reporting and decision useful analysis to senior leadership
- Maintain and improve financial processes inside the ERP and MES environment
- Challenge assumptions and give leadership an honest read on plant performance rather than a comfortable one
What We Need From You
- Deep hands on cost accounting experience in a discrete manufacturing environment
- Standard costing ownership at plant scale, including BOMs, work orders, and variance analysis
- Working command of internal controls, including SOX compliance over inventory and revenue
- ERP fluency, with exposure to MES or shop floor data feeding financial processes
- Able to build monthly plant P&L, inventory, and capital forecasts and explain them clearly to Operations and senior leadership
Preferred / Bonus
- Public company reporting experience
- Lean or Six Sigma exposure
- CPA, CMA, or MBA
- Experience in a multi site or divisional manufacturing structure