Manufacturing Finance Controller

Top Prospect Group; Winsted (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Top Prospect Group is seeking a Factory Controller in Winsted, CT to partner with factory management and provide timely financial analysis, reporting, and KPIs to maximize performance. You will drive profitability improvements, capital project oversight, and annual budgeting, while ensuring strong internal controls and month-end processes.

The role requires strong accounting background in manufacturing, expertise in standard costing and variances, ERP experience, and proficiency in Excel and

Qualifications

• Experience in business or factory controlling with a strong accounting background in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of standard cost accounting, manufacturing variances, budgeting, forecasting, and month-end closing.
• Ability to analyze complex financial and operational data and translate findings into clear recommendations for management.
• Demonstrated experience identifying opportunities to improve profitability, working capital, and manufacturing performance.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Experience with data analytics and business intelligence tools such as Power BI is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Factory Management to provide timely financial analysis, reporting, and KPIs to maximize factory performance.
• Identify and drive opportunities to improve profitability, working capital, asset turns, contribution margins, and overall operational performance.
• Lead the annual budgeting and planning process, establishing realistic financial targets and identifying risks, opportunities, and contingency plans.
• Monitor actual performance against budgets and forecasts, analyze variances, and recommend corrective actions.
• Ensure internal financial controls and procedures are effective, compliant, and consistently followed.
• Manage all cost accounting activities, including standard costing, variance analysis, product costing, and month-end closing.
• Analyze manufacturing and operational data to identify cost-reduction and profitability improvement opportunities.
• Support lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives by tracking and validating financial savings.
• Provide financial oversight for capital investments, including business case analysis, strategy alignment, and tracking expected returns.
• Support quoting and new business opportunities by developing cost estimates, financial models, and profitability analysis.
• Coordinate financial data collection, analysis, and reporting across the factory and broader value chain.
• Support annual audits, tax requirements, financial controls, and other corporate finance activities.
• Prepare ad hoc financial analysis and reports for factory and corporate leadership.
• Provide financial controlling support for the Winsted Sales Unit.
• Maintain a strong presence on the manufacturing floor and work closely with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and other functional teams.
• Communicate financial performance, risks, trends, and improvement opportunities to factory leadership.

Skills

Standard cost accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance analysis

Month-end close

Excel/MS Office

Power BI

ERP systems

Data analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Power BI

ERP systems

Excel

Job description

Top Prospect Group is seeking a Factory Controller in Winsted, CT to partner with factory management and provide timely financial analysis, reporting, and KPIs to maximize performance. You will drive profitability improvements, capital project oversight, and annual budgeting, while ensuring strong internal controls and month-end processes.

The role requires strong accounting background in manufacturing, expertise in standard costing and variances, ERP experience, and proficiency in Excel and