Junior Controller: Manufacturing Finance & Cost Insights

medmix; Flowery Branch (GA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

medmix is seeking a Junior Controller / Finance Associate to support financial planning, reporting, and manufacturing finance activities in Flowery Branch, GA. The role emphasizes analysis, reporting, and cost-control tasks to build future controller capabilities.

You'll assist with month-end close, variance analysis, standard costing, and KPI monitoring, collaborating with Operations and Supply Chain to drive process improvements and accurate financial insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in finance, accounting, cost accounting or manufacturing finance.
• Knowledge of budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis.
• Exposure to manufacturing processes, inventory accounting and standard costing preferred.
• Core competencies: analytical thinking, attention to detail, business partnering, problem solving, continuous improvement mindset, ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly, quarterly and annual close processes.
• Prepare journal entries, accruals, reconciliations and management reports.
• Perform variance analysis against budget, forecast and prior year results.
• Support budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning activities.
• Develop KPI dashboards and reporting packages.
• Support internal and external audit requests.
• Analyze profitability, gross margin and operating expenses.
• Maintain standard cost data and support annual cost roll processes.
• Analyze labor, material, overhead, scrap and efficiency variances.
• Support inventory reconciliations, cycle counts and physical inventories.
• Monitor slow moving and obsolete inventory.
• Track capital expenditures and support investment analyses.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain and Production teams on cost improvement initiatives.
• Support SAP master data maintenance related to cost centers, work centers and reporting structures.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, controls and reporting automation.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Management reporting

Variance analysis

Cost accounting

Manufacturing finance

KPI monitoring

Cross-functional partnering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP

Excel

Job description

medmix is seeking a Junior Controller / Finance Associate to support financial planning, reporting, and manufacturing finance activities in Flowery Branch, GA. The role emphasizes analysis, reporting, and cost-control tasks to build future controller capabilities.

You'll assist with month-end close, variance analysis, standard costing, and KPI monitoring, collaborating with Operations and Supply Chain to drive process improvements and accurate financial insights.