Plant Controller

Veralto; Elk Grove Village (IL); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, remote-friendly environment

Paid holidays and PTO policy

Career development and training

Job summary

Veralto seeks a Plant Controller to partner with site leadership at Wood Dale and Elk Grove, driving cost productivity and financial insight. You’ll own budgets, perform variance analysis, and lead SOX and internal controls across two manufacturing sites.

You’ll translate financial data into actionable guidance for non-finance leaders, supporting capital planning and inventory optimization in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in operations finance, plant controlling, or manufacturing finance within an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Proven track record of partnering with operational leaders to identify and deliver cost improvement or productivity outcomes.
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or equivalent) and strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting tools.
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex financial data into clear, compelling business narratives for non‑finance audiences.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to build trusted relationships with plant and operations leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of site-level operating budgets and financial forecasts, collaborating with plant leadership to build credible, operations-aligned plans.
• Partner with plant directors and site leadership teams at Wood Dale and Elk Grove to deliver proactive financial insights that drive productivity and operational decision-making.
• Analyze plant-level cost performance, including material, labor, and overhead variances, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations for operations leaders.
• Drive identification and tracking of cost improvement and productivity initiatives, ensuring financial impacts are quantified, reported, and realized.
• Deliver timely and accurate monthly financial reporting for both facilities, including variance analysis, KPI dashboards, and forward-looking risk and opportunity assessments.
• Collaborate with the Cost Accounting and global finance team to ensure cost accounting practices are applied consistently and accurately at the plant level.
• Support capital expenditure planning and post-investment analysis, partnering with plant directors to prioritize and evaluate productivity‑enhancing investments.
• Influence operational behavior by making financial data accessible and meaningful to non‑finance stakeholders, fostering a culture of financial accountability on the plant floor.
• Facilitate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes for both sites, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of all plant-level financial submissions.
• Implement and maintain strong internal controls at the site level, supporting SOX compliance and audit readiness across both facilities.
• Partner with operations, supply chain, and business leaders to analyze inventory performance, establish inventory targets, monitor KPI trends, and drive initiatives that improve inventory productivity, forecast accuracy, and profitability.

Skills

Partnering with operations

Financial storytelling

Excel proficiency

Interpersonal skills

Financial reporting

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningfulwork thatmakes an everyday impacton the world around you.

• Growing yourexpertiseand expanding your skillset with every project.

• Owning your ambitionand fueling your career growth.

You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week—after all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions. Videojet’s technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces.

As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll work with products that make an everyday impact on the world around you—and along the way, you’ll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.

Learn more about how our values (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iFYdty_sWc) influence our culture and who we are;

Learn about our leading portfolio of innovative products here! (https://cdn.videojet.com/U309KOI6/as/vvpm76xpvfqj3kgchf7khbnz/vf-history-of-videojet-innovation-us)

We offer:

• A flexible, remote-friendly work environment

• Paid holidays and a permissive paid time off policy emphasizing flexibility and trust

• Ongoing investment in your career through dedicated training, on-the-job development, and coaching

• Total rewards that support your success at work and beyond, including comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and associate wellbeing programming with rewards

About the role:

We're seeking a Plant Controller to serve as a strategic financial business partner to the plant directors and operations leadership teams across Videojet's Wood Dale and Elk Grove facilities. In this role, you'll harness data-driven insights and deep financial acumen to identify productivity opportunities, influence operational decisions, and deliver measurable, favorable impacts to cost across North American manufacturing. This is an opportunity to sit at the intersection of finance and operations—shaping how two high-priority manufacturing sites perform financially while building your career within a globally recognized, purpose-driven organization.

You’ll work closely with plant directors, cost accounting, supply chain, and the broader Operations Finance team to translate financial data into clear, actionable business intelligence. Success in this role means that within 12–18 months, the Wood Dale and Elk Grove facilities have stronger financial visibility, productivity initiatives are clearly tracked and delivering results, and plant directors view you as an indispensable strategic partner in their decision-making.

What You'll Do

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development of site-level operating budgets and financial forecasts, collaborating with plant leadership to build credible, operations-aligned plans.

• Partner with plant directors and site leadership teams at Wood Dale and Elk Grove to deliver proactive financial insights that drive productivity and operational decision-making.

• Analyze plant-level cost performance, including material, labor, and overhead variances, and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations for operations leaders.

• Drive identification and tracking of cost improvement and productivity initiatives, ensuring financial impacts are quantified, reported, and realized.

• Deliver timely and accurate monthly financial reporting for both facilities, including variance analysis, KPI dashboards, and forward-looking risk and opportunity assessments.

• Collaborate with the Cost Accounting and global finance team to ensure cost accounting practices are applied consistently and accurately at the plant level.

• Support capital expenditure planning and post-investment analysis, partnering with plant directors to prioritize and evaluate productivity‑enhancing investments.

• Influence operational behavior by making financial data accessible and meaningful to non‑finance stakeholders, fostering a culture of financial accountability on the plant floor.

• Facilitate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes for both sites, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of all plant-level financial submissions.

• Implement and maintain strong internal controls at the site level, supporting SOX compliance and audit readiness across both facilities.

• Partner with operations, supply chain, and business leaders to analyze inventory performance, establish inventory targets, monitor key KPI trends, and drive initiatives that improve inventory productivity, forecast accuracy, and profitability.

What We're Looking For

Minimum Qualifications

These are the must-have requirements for the role:

• 7+ years of experience in operations finance, plant controlling, or manufacturing finance within an industrial or manufacturing environment.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.

• Proven track record of partnering with operational leaders to identify and deliver cost improvement or productivity outcomes.

• Experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or equivalent) and strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting tools.

• Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex financial data into clear, compelling business narratives for non‑finance audiences.

• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to build trusted relationships with plant and operations leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

These are nice-to-have skills that will set candidates apart:

• CPA, CMA, or equivalent professional accounting designation (or active pursuit).

• Experience supporting multi‑site manufacturing operations within a publicly traded company.

• Background in standard costing, inventory management, or manufacturing variance analysis.

• Familiarity with Lean/continuous improvement methodologies (e.g., Kaizen, VPS) and their application to financial performance management.

• Experience with data visualization tools such as Power BI or Tableau to develop plant‑level financial dashboards.

• Prior experience collaborating across global finance teams in a matrixed organization.

Videojet is proud to part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.

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The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $130,000 - $170,000 USD per year.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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Veralto and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.