Factory Controller

Danfoss; United States; On-site; USD 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Paid vacation

Pension plans

Personal insurance

Job summary

Danfoss is seeking a Factory Controller to translate factory performance into clear financial insights and actionable management actions. You’ll support local factory management and Product Line leadership in driving sustainable results across cost, cash, productivity, and operational performance.

You will collaborate with operations, supply chain, procurement, and finance teams, owning core controlling processes such as monthly closing, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis.

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or similar.
• Experience in financial analysis, business controlling, or factory controlling in manufacturing.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to translate data into business recommendations.
• Excellent Excel and ERP/reporting tool knowledge (SAP, BW, HFM, Power BI).
• Fluent English communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Drive monthly factory performance analysis and translate results into insights and actions.
• Lead month-end closing, accrual reviews, deviation analysis, plant forecasting, and budgeting.
• Analyze costs drivers: productivity, procurement, freight, inventory, cost reductions, warranty, variances.
• Partner with leaders to challenge assumptions, identify risks/opportunities, and support profitability and cash actions.
• Use Excel, SAP/S4HANA, BW, HFM, and Power BI to improve transparency and data-driven decisions.

Skills

Financial analysis

Business controlling

Factory controlling

Analytical skills

Excel skills

English communication

Education

Finance / Economics / Business Administration degree

Tools

SAP/S4HANA

Business Warehouse

HFM

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Segment: Danfoss Climate Solutions Segment

Job Category: Finance & Accounting

Work Location Type: On-site

Job Experience Level: Mid-Senior level

Factory Controller

Req ID: 51862 Job Location: Kostelec, CZ, Prague, CZ Employment Type: Full Time Segment: Danfoss Climate Solutions Segment Job Category: Finance & Accounting Work Location Type: On-site Job Experience Level: Mid-Senior level Job Description

The Impact You'll Make

As our Factory Controller, you’ll play a key role in turning factory performance into clear financial insight and practical business action. You will support local factory management and the Product Line leadership team in delivering sustainable results across cost, cash, productivity, inventory, and operational performance.

Your impact? Better decisions, stronger cost control, improved forecasting accuracy, and sharper visibility on risks and opportunities in the factory. You will help leaders understand what is driving performance and what actions are needed to improve it.

You’ll collaborate closely with operations, supply chain, procurement, finance, and product line teams, taking ownership of core controlling processes such as monthly closing, forecasting, budgeting, cost analysis, inventory follow-up, and business performance reviews.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Drive monthly factory performance analysis, translating financial results into clear insights, root causes, and concrete actions for improvement.
• Lead key controlling processes including month-end closing, accrual reviews, deviation analysis, plant forecasting, and annual budgeting.
• Analyze supply chain and factory cost drivers such as productivity, procurement, freight, inventories, cost reductions, warranty, and manufacturing variances.
• Partner with factory and product line leaders to challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and support decisions that improve profitability and cash performance.
• Use tools such as Excel, SAP/S4HANA, Business Warehouse, HFM, and Power BI to improve transparency, reporting quality, and data-driven decision-making.

What We're Looking For

• A degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a similar field.
• Experience in financial analysis, business controlling, or factory controlling, ideally in a production or manufacturing environment.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to turn complex financial and operational data into clear business recommendations.
• Excellent Excel skills and solid knowledge of ERP/reporting tools such as SAP, Business Warehouse, HFM, or Power BI; curiosity for automation and digital reporting is a plus.
• Fluent English communication skills and the confidence to challenge, advise, and collaborate with stakeholders across functions and cultures.

What You'll Get from Us

• We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
• You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
• We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
• You’ll receive benefits like, annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.

Our Commitment to Transparency

Salary ranges listed reflect only primary location and currency. For local salary ranges and specific benefits in your preferred hiring location, please ask your Talent Acquisition representative for more information.

The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Any benefits listed do not promise or guarantee any particular benefit or specific action. They may depend on country or contract specifics and are subject to change at any time without prior notice.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.

Danfoss engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification.

Our solutions are used in areas such as refrigeration, air conditioning, heating, power conversion, motor control, industrial machinery, marine, and on- and off-highway equipment. We also provide solutions for data centers, renewable energy, energy storage, heat recovery, as well as contribute to district energy solutions for cities.

Our innovative engineering dates back to 1933. Danfoss is family-owned and employs over 39,000 people. We create long-term value for our customers in more than 100 countries with a global footprint of around 100 factories.