Manufacturing Finance Assistant Controller

Informa TechTarget; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 76,500 - 93,500; Full time

Job summary

Informa TechTarget is seeking an Assistant Controller to partner with finance, operations, and site leadership. You will deliver accurate reporting, analyze costs, maintain standard costing, and support budgeting, forecasting, and monthly close to drive improved financial performance.

The role focuses on translating manufacturing activity into clear financial insights, building dashboards, and guiding cost decisions.

Qualifications

• Strong financial analysis, business analytics, reporting, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, inventory accounting, standard costing, and variance analysis.
• Ability to analyze large data sets, identify trends, explain variances, and turn data into practical business recommendations.
• Strong Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, data modeling, and report automation.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports, financial models, and KPI tracking tools.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to balance accuracy, deadlines, and changing business priorities.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results clearly to both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Ability to collaborate with operations, supply chain, shared services, and local leadership teams.
• Strong systems aptitude, with the ability to retrieve and validate data from ERP and reporting systems.
• Continuous improvement mindset with a desire to simplify processes, improve controls, and make reporting more useful.
• High level of ownership, curiosity, and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and analyze daily, weekly, and monthly financial and operational reports that support business unit performance management.
• Support the monthly close process through journal entry preparation, account reconciliations, variance analysis, accrual support, and financial reporting.
• Analyze manufacturing costs, including material, labor, overhead, freight, scrap, rework, yield, productivity, and absorption variances.
• Support standard cost development, cost roll-ups, item cost maintenance, and ERP cost updates under the direction of the Controller.
• Monitor inventory balances, cycle count results, inventory adjustments, obsolete and slow-moving inventory, reserve requirements, and inventory valuation.
• Partner with operations and supply chain to strengthen inventory controls, improve transaction accuracy, and identify root causes of inventory variances.
• Prepare margin analysis by customer, product, product family, channel, or business segment to support pricing, mix, and profitability decisions.
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools that provide timely insight into sales, gross margin, operating expenses, inventory, working capital, and operational KPIs.
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes by gathering inputs, analyzing trends, preparing schedules, and developing financial models.
• Assist with capital spending analysis, including project tracking, ROI calculations, payback analysis, and post-completion reviews.
• Research and explain key financial variances to budget, forecast, prior year, and prior period results.
• Support cash flow and working capital analysis, including inventory, receivables, payables, and operational drivers.
• Partner with shared services, as needed, to research AR, AP, payroll, cash application, and transactional issues impacting business unit reporting or performance.
• Assist with internal and external audit requests, including documentation, account support, inventory testing, and control-related analysis.
• Identify reporting gaps, process inefficiencies, and data integrity issues, and recommend improvements to enhance accuracy, speed, and usefulness of financial information.
• Become a strong user of Epicor and other reporting systems, with the ability to retrieve, validate, analyze, and present data without heavy reliance on IT.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis, special projects, and business case support for the Controller, General Manager, and local leadership team.
• Support a culture of safety, accountability, continuous improvement, and financial discipline.

Skills

Financial analysis

Variance analysis

Excel

Reporting

Data analysis

Communication

Operations collaboration

ERP data retrieval

Education

Bachelor's degree

Manufacturing experience

Epicor experience

CPA CMA MBA

Tools

Epicor ERP

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Job description

Informa TechTarget is seeking an Assistant Controller to partner with finance, operations, and site leadership. You will deliver accurate reporting, analyze costs, maintain standard costing, and support budgeting, forecasting, and monthly close to drive improved financial performance.

The role focuses on translating manufacturing activity into clear financial insights, building dashboards, and guiding cost decisions.